Blog Break Time!

I’ve usually already begun my blog break, but my winter break fell a little later this year. I haven’t really spent a February at home in well over a decade, and I’ve been getting a bad taste of what I’d been missing all those years with some doozy winter storms. Usually, me and friends in Mexico are checking the weather at home while we’re at the pool, laughing at sub-zero temps and huge storms we didn’t have to endure. Not fun.

It’s finally almost that time for me to get out of winter Dodge and relax in my beach chair in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Where else better for a Canadian to escape the deep, cold dredges of a winter that never seems to end than Mexico. Guaranteed sun, beautiful country, many Canadian friends are there awaiting my arrival, and most of all, about the only country where our crappy and very low Canadian dollar is still very worthy.

I’ve been quite busy these past few weeks with medical appointments and necessary errands, and of course, going to the gym, so I haven’t yet finished a longer read to share a review today. I will return back to Sunday Book Reviews later in March. I should have some good reading done while away – in between gabbing. I may pop by some blogs randomly to check on things as well as keeping up with Sally Cronin’s Smorgasbord where I know I will be kept abreast, when I’m not out socializing or sunning. 😎

Stay safe, and warm – for those who are experiencing extreme winter temps. I can’t wait to feel that hot sun on my skin!

Vacation

©DGKaye2025

February Writer’s Tips – #Writing Process, #Publishing #Scams, #Blogging Tips

Welcome to my February curated Writer’s Tips. In this edition, Liz Gauffreau is at the Story Empire with a detailed post on Revisiting our Writing Process, Nathan Bransford has some helpful tips to combat Rampant Publishing Scams, and Hugh Roberts, our WordPress guru talks about how to Boost your Blog Reach.

©DGkaye2025

Sunday Book Review – The Hidden Power of Your Past Lives: Revealing Your Encoded Consciousness by Sandra Anne Taylor

My Sunday Book Review for The Hidden Power of Your Past Lives: Revealing Your Encoded Consciousness by Sandra Anne Taylor. A wonderful informative read on past life regression, the method, and how past lives associate to our life now.

Just to add that I tried past life regression and it was a mess for me. I’m a very strong-minded person and I don’t think the hypnotizing was effect enough, also, my head was steeped in full-on grief, and I couldn’t follow directives in my mind’s eye. But I’d like to try again.

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New York Times–bestselling author and counselor takes us on “a riveting journey” through karmic energy, reincarnation, and consciousness—demonstrating how many aspects of our lives can be linked to experiences from the past” (Gregg Braden, New York Times–bestselling author of The Wisdom Codes)
 
Have you ever wondered why certain life patterns have been so hard to turn around? Well, the reasons may be encoded in your eternal history—in karmic sources that were set lifetimes ago. Perhaps you keep struggling with money problems, feel hopeless about finding true love, or have an addiction you can’t seem to beat.

These current issues could be traced back to previous lives. Even psychological and physical ailments such as chronic pain, allergies, weight problems, and self-doubts could originate in unknown past events.  Yet these past-life sources don’t have to remain a mystery—or have any power over you anymore!

In this enlightening and truly liberating book, New York Times–bestselling author Sandra Anne Taylor explores the energy of karma and reincarnation, revealing how your eternal consciousness can become encoded, influencing your destiny today.

When you learn how to release and rescript your karma, you can pave the way to joy and personal power—now and in years to come!

If you’re interested in learning how Past Life Regression works I think this book would be a wonderful introduction to it. The book explains many things about feelings, personalities, fears, pain, our dispositions, and more, and how they play into our current lives from past reincarnations. The book also offers examples of how this works. For example, our current partner in this life may very well have been our parent in a past life, or vice versa. There are many complexities that make up our being, and they are not all from this current life.

We are all encoded with past history. We aren’t all aware of this, nor would we want to be carrying around remembered baggage from past lives. The soul lives on and carries with it incidence from past lifetimes. Learning how to understand this all is by doing past life regression therapy – having someone trained to hypnotize and take us deep into our subconscious into the past. It offers a deeper understanding about underlying reasons we often repeat patterns in our relationships with others and helps us to understand our habits, fears, and incidents and how they relate to a past life. These habits and fears are collective in the soul and travel through with us to next lifetimes. This is karmic energy. And in this book we will learn how to rescript some of that karma to help break some of our more unhealthier cycles. This book also offers free audio downloads for meditations.

©DGKaye2025

The Lost Art of Human Interaction – #Poetry

Looking at Phones Instead of Faces

A bit of poetry today on the distant memories of social human interaction. Technology brought us cell phones and computers, but have taken away much of the human element of social conversation and interaction – both in public and the home. Once upon a time, people made small talk in public places such as, buses, airplanes, airports, banks, grocery store lineups, or pretty much when even passing another human in close proximity. And sometimes friendships were struck from these brief and serendipitious meetings. Now, all we see are faces glued to phones.

Emotion reflected in eyes.

The resonation of words

Amplified by tone and

Facial expressions.

A fading art.

Lost in digits.

Emotions replaced by emojis,

Blinded from body language.

Missing the waft of personal presence,

Tricky to gauge the heart of a soul.

Human connections live in the flesh,

Emit so much more than

Most fingers can type.

Often leaving emotionless, perhaps,

quizzical response.

Without peering of the eyes,

It’s difficult to detect a lie

Human interaction waning,

Disguised behind device.

True identities buried by technology.

©DGKaye2025

Sunday Book Review #NewRelease by Nicholas Rossis #Childrens – Everyone Hates This Restaurant

Welcome to my Sunday Book Review. Today I’m reviewing Nicholas Rossis’s new children’s book – Everyone Hates This Restaurant.

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Mom, can we go to my favorite place?
I’m hungry and thirsty and it’s getting late.

But everyone hates this restaurant, dear!
The mere thought of going there fills me with fear.


Why does a hungry little girl insist on going to the world’s worst restaurant?

A hilarious illustrated tale for children ages 5-12 by IBBY award winner Nicholas C. Rossis.

The author was inspired to write this book because his young daughter seems to be the only one who likes that restaurant and because of her love of desserts. And when you read this sweet tale, you’ll learn why. The caricature illustrations accompanying each verse in this clever and cute short story are gorgeous. They are eye-catching and definitely portray each verse they relate to perfectly and humorously. No doubts young children would have fun having this book read to them, or reading themselves. What child doesn’t love dessert? This book is recommended to ages 5-12, but clever and entertaining at any age.

©DGKaye2025