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A Note from Tina | № 15


Well Hello There! Thanks for stopping by. 'A Note from Tina' is a monthly collection of recent posts, shopping, interesting posts/ articles from fellow bloggers/around the Web, and my life here at Maples & Stone Home.

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Can you believe Christmas and the New Year are almost here?! This year has flown by...I really wish the years would slow down just a little! So how many of you are ready...you know...shopping finished and decorations up? Umm, nope I'm not! 


Table of content

◇ Life Lately

◇ Around the Web

◇ On the Blog





Life Lately 

I hope everyone one had thankful and happy Thanksgiving! Ours was nice but definitely different. This was the first one without my parents. 🥹 There were times throughout the day where I would tear-up, but it would pass when I looked around and was thankful that although my parents are gone, my daughter and her family couldn't come up, and my brother is fighting his own battle with AML, I have/had so much love in my life. 

I haven't finished decorating for Christmas, which probably isn't going to happen since I have to show up for jury selection Tuesday.  However,  as I mentioned above,  I haven't even started shopping for Christmas!!! 

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Around the Web 

Well, don't ask me how or when but I deleted some of the inspiration I was going to share, sigh! 

On the Blog 

  • 25 Christmas Movies/ TV Shows I Love to Watch 
  • What I've Read | November 2024

Merry Christmas!!


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What I've Read | November 2024


We Hello and Welcome to 'What I've Read'.
If you're new here this is a monthly post of the books I've read either on Kindle or in physical form, or listened to on Audible or Chirp. Hopefully you enjoy this months books or if you've read any let me now what you thought in the comments below. If you want to see more of the books I've read go here or check out goodreads.

Happy Reading! 



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Lies My Doctor Told Me | Author: Dr. Ken Berry | Available: here |☆☆☆☆ | boy did this read make mad, but did have me laughing at times.


Has your doctor lied to you?

Eat low-fat and high-carb, including plenty of “healthy” whole grains - does that sound familiar? Perhaps, this is what you were told at your last doctor’s appointment or visit with a nutritionist, or perhaps, it is something you read online when searching for a healthy diet. And maybe, you’ve been misled. Dr. Ken Berry is here to dispel the myths and misinformation that have been perpetuated by the medical and food industries for decades.

This updated and expanded edition of Dr. Berry’s best seller Lies My Doctor Told Me exposes the truth behind all kinds of “lies” told by well-meaning but misinformed medical practitioners. Nutritional therapy is often overlooked in medical school, and the information provided to physicians is often outdated. However, the negative consequences on your health remain the same. Advice to avoid healthy fats and stay out of the sun has been proven to be detrimental to longevity and can wreak havoc on your system.

In this audiobook, Dr. Berry will enlighten you about nutrition and life choices, their role in our health, and how to begin an educated conversation with your doctor about finding the right path for you.

This book will teach you:

Facts doctors are taught to think about nutrition and other preventative health measures and how they should be thinking
Story of how the food pyramid and MyPlate came into existence and why they should change
Facts about fat intake and heart health
Truth about the effects of whole wheat on the human body
Role of dairy in your diet
Truth about salt - friend or foe?
Dangers and benefits of hormone therapy
New information about inflammation and how it should be viewed by doctors
Come out of the darkness and let Ken Berry be your guide to optimal health and harmony!


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In the Name of the Children: an fbi agents relentless pursuit of the nation’s worst predators | Author: Jeffrey L. Rinek, Marilee Strong |Available: here |☆☆☆☆ | warning this book describes acts against children that will be disturbing. 


In the Name of the Children gives an unflinching look at what it's like to fight a never-ending battle against an enemy far more insidious than terrorists: the predators, lurking amongst us, who seek to harm our children.
During his 30-year career with the FBI, Jeff Rinek worked hundreds of investigations involving crimes against children: from stranger abduction to serial homicide to ritualized sexual abuse. Those who do this kind of work are required to plumb the depths of human depravity, to see things no one should ever have to see - and once seen can never forget. There is no more important - or more brutal - job in law enforcement, and few have been more successful than Rinek at solving these sort of cases.

Most famously, Rinek got Cary Stayner to confess to all four of the killings known as the Yosemite Park Murders, an accomplishment made more extraordinary by the fact that the FBI nearly pinned the crimes on the wrong suspects. Rinek's recounting of the confession and what he learned about Stayner provides perhaps the most revelatory look ever inside the psyche of a serial killer and a privileged glimpse into the art of interrogation.

In the Name of the Children takes readers into the trenches of real-time investigations where every second counts and any wrong decision or overlooked fact can have tragic repercussions. Rinek offers an insider's perspective of the actual case agents and street detectives who are the boots on the ground in this war at home. By placing us inside the heart and mind of a rigorously honest and remarkably self-reflective investigator, we will see with our own eyes what it takes-and what it costs - to try to keep our children safe and to bring to justice those who prey on society's most vulnerable victims.

With each chapter dedicated to a real case he worked, In the Name of the Children also explores the evolution of Rinek as a Special Agent - whose unorthodox, empathy-based approach to interviewing suspects made him extraordinarily successful in obtaining confessions - and the toll it took to have such intimate contact with child molesters and murderers. Beyond exploring the devastating impact of these unthinkable crimes on the victims and their families, this book offers an unprecedented look at how investigators and their loved ones cope while living in the spectre of so much suffering.


Blood & Ink: the scandalous jazz age double-murder that hooked America on true crime|Author: Joe Pompeo |Available: here |☆☆☆☆|


Vanity Fair’s Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister and his secret mistress, a Jazz Age mega-crime that propelled tabloid news in the 20th century.

On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabapple tree on an abandoned farm outside of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The killer had arranged the bodies in a pose conveying intimacy.

The murder of Hall, a prominent clergyman whose wife, Frances Hall, was a proud heiress with illustrious ancestors and ties to the Johnson & Johnson dynasty, would have made headlines on its own. But when authorities identified Eleanor Mills as a choir singer from his church married to the church sexton, the story shocked locals and sent the scandal ricocheting around the country, fueling the nascent tabloid industry. This provincial double murder on a lonely lover’s lane would soon become one of the most famous killings in American history—a veritable crime of the century.

The bumbling local authorities failed to secure any indictments, however, and it took a swashbuckling crusade by the editor of a circulation-hungry Hearst tabloid to revive the case and bring it to trial at last.

Blood & Ink freshly chronicles what remains one of the most electrifying but forgotten murder mysteries in U.S. history. It also traces the birth of American tabloid journalism, pandering to the masses with sordid tales of love, sex, money, and murder.



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xo Tina

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Holiday tv/movies & music

25+ Christmas Movies/TV Shows I Love to Watch


Well hello there! "The most wonderful time of the year" is quickly approaching. And that means it's not only time for all the merriment, but Christmas movies & TV shows.  No I'm not talking about binge watching Hallmark, (unpopular opinion) but I don't care for a lot of them! But those that are listed below (in no particular order) ...



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  1. A Christmas Carol (version by year: 1999, 2009, 2019, 1984)
  2. How the Grinch stole Christmas (animated)
  3. The Polar Express 
  4. White Christmas 
  5. Nestor the long-eared Christmas donkey 
  6. Christmas with the Kranks
  7. A Christmas story 
  8. The Muppets Christmas Carol
  9. The year without a Santa Claus 
  10. Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
  11. Frosty the snowman 
  12. Twas The night before Christmas 
  13. The first Christmas 
  14. Charlie Brown Christmas 
  15. Home Alone (original) 
  16. Home Alone 2, lost in New York 
  17. Santa Claus is coming to town 
  18. How the grinch stole Christmas (Jim carrey)
  19. National lampoon's Christmas vacation 
  20. Jack frost (animated) 
  21. The Santa clause
  22. It's a wonderful life
  23. Mickey's Once upon a Christmas 
  24. Mickey's Christmas Carol
  25. A looney tools Christmas 
★More I thought of:
  • Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus 
  • Holiday Inn
  • Scrooge (bill Murray) 
  • The bells of St. Mary's 
  • Miracle on 34th Street (Natalie Wood)

☆☆If you can find it: Ms. Scrooge with Cicely Tyson.



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Wishing you & yours a Wonderful Christmas!🎄 

Until next time,
xo Tina

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