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I’ve had the steam cleaner for 6 months and have used it several times. We have 2 puppies so I am cleaning carpets quite often. I’ve had no problems with it leaking. In my opinion, I feel I get more dirt of the carpet if I boil the water on the stove and then pour into the water tank.

My husband told me to get a steam cleaner years ago but instead I would rent the rug doctor and/or have my carpets professionally cleaned. My husband was right (I have told him this several times and he just smiles). I’ve saved a ton of money and have found I actually like cleaning the carpets. It does a great job and I like clean carpets.
White Heart Excerpt from

It was a good pedometer, but the belt clip and security strap were useless. The whole thing fell off my hip and was lost forever within a week of the purchase. Bummer.
Having a Mary Heart

Jason, a doctor at a rehab hospital, literally ran into the most beautiful woman he has ever seen with his car on a very rainy night. With no way of knowing who she is, he decides to take her to his hospital to look after her. Of course, she awakes with no memory of who she is or what happened to her – thus the name Rayne. It was a very romantic story. However, I would have rated it a possible 3 or 4 if someone had took the time to edit the book before publishing it. The storyline was great. The characters were developed very well – but the errors were too numerous to really enjoy.

Marie Rochelle is one of my favorite authors. Her writings portray strong Alpha males who are persistent in getting the girl, as well as the ladies with a little spunk and feistiness to combat the male testosterone. I would suggest if you are reading this, Ms. Rochelle, that you fire your editor and/or proof-read until you can’t any more.

With All My Heart

A tough read but the book is particularily rewarding for the notes in the back. They give a great overview of the life and times of the characters.

The note’s while being very thorough can be a little convoluted. At least twice I was refererred to notes on notes on notes!!
The Heart of Midlothian

The Heart Aroused : Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America. I read this book the first time at a time when I felt completely fried in my career. Mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically flattened by a career I had worked so hard to build, I asked myself “is this all there is?” and “is it enough?” I believed I was failing in many areas of my life although outwardly I appeared successful.

I lived for others but not for myself.

I experienced such a rush reading like Whyte somehow had peered into my soul and understood me. The compassion and friendship I felt from this poet astonished me. His writing is brilliant, clear and impactful. I found myself reading and re-reading sentences over and over again which I rarely do.

Whyte uses language, metaphor, poetry, archtypes and tremendous compassion to help readers unlock the creative soul inside and let it enrich life. He recognizes that work can be a huge portion of what gives life meaning and that it should not be compartmentalized or shut off from our “real life,” however we define it.

His book is about integrating all the disparate parts of one’s tired soul into an authentic self that is vibrant, creative, successful – on your own terms, and full of meaning. It is, as he describes it, the impossible task to bring together “the supposedly strategic world of business with the great inheritance of the human literary imagination.”

To the bottom-line corporate warrior, this sounds like some unsubstantial gobblety gook, but nothing could be further from the truth. When we bring creativity to the workplace, it impacts productivity in ways that can’t be planned or plotted, but are real nonetheless.

Whyte reaches back into classic poetry like Beowulf and Dante’s Inferno to show the universality of the human condition and our place in it. In his first chapter he talks about inviting the soul to work and opens it with a quote from Dante, Commedia: “In the middle of the road of my lif
The Heart Aroused Poetry

Is it even possible to have a conversation with God, in the same everyday sense that we can have a conversation with another person? Neale Donald Walsch doesn’t claim to have literally heard the voice of God, but he claims that God spoke to him nonetheless, and that he has simply transcribed God’s words.* I don’t think I’m the right person to take a position on Walsch’s claim but I will say that he offers a beautiful and compelling vision of reality and our creative power. His book inspires the excitement and the feeling of recognition that we experience when encountering a deep insight or truth. Readers might find passages in Conversations with God, attributed to God, that sound more like Walsch. But maybe those passages reflect Walsch’s limitations, or the reader’s limitations in understanding them.

In the book, we are told that God encompasses all things, including us. God created us – a part of Himself – so He could experience Himself. A thing can only be experienced in relation to what it is not, and we find both good and bad in the world. But we are urged not to condemn what we call bad in the world. Rather, when we encounter conditions that are inconsistent with what we are or what we want to be, we need to take responsibility for them and ultimately change them through our creative power.

The discussion of this – the creative power that we share with God – is the most compelling part of the book. We are told that the creative process begins with thought, becomes more concrete through speech, and more concrete still through action. When we recognize our power to create, we recognize that we are responsible for what exists. This is obviously true on one level: “things are what you make of them” is a commonplace. We have all seen people live up to our high expectations or be dragged down by low ones. We have all transformed a bad situation into a good one (or maybe a good one into a bad one) through our thoughts and actions. But the assertion m
Straight for the Heart

I know most of the reviews here aren’t so positive, but I found this book a good read. It is the first Luanne Rice book I have read, and it won’t be the last. I thought the story was a sad, but realistic one. It was filled with surprises, twists & turns.I enjoyed the characters, but at times, didn’t understand where they were coming from. However, I believe that in a good read, you get more than the predictable story & characters you can relate to. There should be characters who you CAN’T relate to. But at that instance, you learn about people & human nature.And at the end of the story, it should make you stop & think about a situation or attitude that before you didn’t know or consider. I recommend this book.
Stone Heart

This Hoover vacuum was purchased to replace an Oreck we’d had for a few years that was showing its age. It has proven to be better than the Oreck for which we had paid much more! It has very good cleaning power and is not heavy to manipulate. I’d definitely recommend the Hoover Tempo Widepath!
Heart Mind Soul The

Glad I only paid $5. Like I said I’m glad I only paid $5. The game worked the first night and after that The Grinch – Sing Your Heart Out! didn’t matter how loud we sang that sleigh would not release. Minor issue, because you just have to tap it and it falls. But the actual instructions and way the game play out doesn’t really work. I’m all for the team against the Grinch but they make it nearly impossible to beat and let’s face it this game is for toddlers and for them to never ever win is no fun. So we altered it so we could win every now and then. We do a Christmas activity every day until Christmas, so the game served it’s purpose and the kids had fun. I only paid $5 on a lightning deal and thankfully so it’s not worth the $24 list price for all the adjustments that need to be made.

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