http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com en Brenda Bartella Peterson http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=155 Reading the book, Cowboy and Wills by Monica Hollaway engendered reflection on my own experience of owning a pet. We inherited this winsome hyperactive demanding bitch from my son, ironically, also a winsome hyperactive demanding individual. She came to ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:04:19 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=155 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=122 While I comfortably describe myself as a wild-ass liberal now, it has been a journey of discovery and defining my faith. We are formed by the institutions of our childhood for better or worse. Sometimes our faith is deppened when we are forced to question ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:49:52 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=122 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=154 www.thesmartly.com is a writers collective. Smart, quality writing. Writing is the focus not cutesy. My first post for the site is up today. Enjoy! Photo by Global Village Studio, of course. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:48:55 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=154 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=121 Coming to this website soon---an online course titled The Last Time Management Course You will EVER Need. The basis of this course is putting the pieces of your life together to make a whole. Many of us struggle with this balance. Or lack of balance! I ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:51:11 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=121 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=148 Maddie Dawson s new novel, the stuff that never happened, is marketed as a book about a woman who loves two men. While that is, indeed, the plot line, it is so much more in the deeper sense. It is the story of a young woman finding and defining herself. ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:50:38 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=148 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=140 "If You Knew Suzy" by Katherin Rosin came up as a choice of one of my book clubs and I knew immediately, it was a conversation in which I wanted to participate. Being close to finishing my own memoir, I am devouring other memoirs like my favorite sweet %F ... Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:28:20 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=140 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=144 Laura Munson s recent memoir, "This is the Not the Story You Think it is---" rests on the premise that when her husband decided to end their marriage because he didn t love her anymore, she chose happiness and chose to tell him, "I don t buy it." It seeme ... Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:27:39 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=144 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=139 Claiming Frequent Flier miles becomes a skill equaled only to astrophysics or neurosurgery. Not being one to give up on hard earned freebies---there s that persistence value again---I determine I will fight to the bitter end so as not to be robbed of my m ... Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:34:12 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=139 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=138 50somethingmoms.com post today! ... Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:24:28 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=138 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=118 Having learned at an early age that I was good at school, I absorbed the message like good body lotion soaks in that education was my ticket out of poverty. School, with few exceptions, became a refuge---a glorious island of organization and positive expe ... Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:42:44 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=118 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=136 As of today, in addition to my blog here, I am blogging for www.50somethingmoms.com which is a subsidiary site of Silicon Valley Moms. SV Moms is a nation-wide group that has subsidiary blogs in several geographic locations and the 50something group which ... Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:41:24 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=136 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=132 This Edna St. Vincent Millay poem captures my experience of grief like no other. Time does not bring reliefOmicron you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rainOmicron I want him at the shrinking of ... Wed, 26 May 2010 15:40:09 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=132 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=111 I don t agree that there is a "balm that will soothe all the pains of our troubled hearts." I do believe that not only do we find the sacred in the grief journey but on the way find those who also are walking the journey and their companionship makes the ... Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:00:52 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=111 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=131 In pondering all ramifications of Holy Week, I think it is imperative that people of faith who don t believe in bodily resurrection be the ones who speak out about what resurrection means to their faith. For me, resurrection speaks to the cycle of all lif ... Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:00:17 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=131 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=130 Reading to your children should begin in utero! Yes, even then, children begin to hear language sounds and experience the pleasure of a parent s voice. Reading to children has layers of benefit for both parent and child. Most importantly, it teaches child ... Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:13:07 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=130 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=127 Writing memoir is not always easy. Writing memoir is not always fun. Writing memoir most always is necessary! And, perhaps, the greatest benefit comes to the writer rather than her readers. Telling your story is literally that---YOUR story---no one else ... Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:12:23 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=127 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=110 Aeschylus said, "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." Never would I have thought to combine the word "awful" with the ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:20:52 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=110 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=109 We had the pleasure of hearing Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle, speak this week. The Glass Castle is the current memoir that most resonates with my own childhood. It reminded me a a comment I made early on to my younger sisters, "There are sev ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:29:25 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=109 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=102 Namesake and Role Model I was eight days old and still didn t have a name. Mother s younger sister, Bertha Jane, sixteen at that time, came into the hospital with a plan in mind. So painfully shy she couldn t lift her head to look even her sister in the ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:38:36 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=102 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=97 We called her LaLa because that s how her name came out when son, Mark began talking. She came to work for me in 1977, the year Mark was born. I was thirty years old and had zero experience with household help. I didn t even know other people who had hous ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:37:46 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=97 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=94 My posting today is motivated by a new book out by William A. Donohue, President of The Catholic League. Donohue is nationally known for his extreme positions on political and religious issues and the vituperative attacks on those with whom he disagrees. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:36:36 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=94 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=114 Authenticity frustratingly emerges for me like the last drop of molasses in the jar because it is the human characteristic that we are least capable of claiming. We cannot live authentically until, through gut-wrenching trial and error, we define our othe ... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:53:51 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=114 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=107 Comforting those who are experiencing grief will be a task that falls to most all of us at some point in our lives. It may be difficult for some and come naturally to others but I doubt that it comes painlessly to any of us. I m drawn to a quote by a tw ... Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:25:12 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=107 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=106 Perhaps I have been told one too many times what a strong person I am---I m tired of hearing it. I think too often we become strong because it is what s expected of us. Or because life dishes out challenges and rise to the occasion because the alternative ... Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:24:23 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=106 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=104 My post on Rigidty and Faith was a response to learning the my name was taken in vain in Bill Donohue latest political and religious screed. My friend, Rev. Chuck Currie, response was much more comprehensive. I commend it to you for today s reading. ... Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:22:01 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=104 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=88 On Being a Mother I am reminded of a dream I had the summer my son, Sims, was summiting Mt. Kenya. My friend, Rachel Childress, had called to say our dear friend, Thelma Griffin, had had several strokes. I must have gone to bed thinking about Thelma and ... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:52:37 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=88 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=84 As I continue running the marathon that is writing a memoir, I am struck by the Cast of Characters. The challenge is not finding enough interesting folks to populate the memoir but rather narrowing the cast to a reasonable size. I m reminded of a comment ... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:51:48 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=84 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=101 I have been surrounded by alchoholics much of my life. In my hometown, I received the great, good privilege of serving as UNofficial pastor to parts of the AA community. Once, when asked to do a funeral service, I arranged to attend the visitation for th ... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:55:58 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=101 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=Brenda-squo-s_Memoir&display=96 In my memory, religious experience started at Camp Reveal. Pappy Reveal, a non-denominational, evangelical minister, started The Rescue Mission in downtown Evansville for derelicts and drunks and Camp Reveal on the outskirts of town for underprivileged ch ... Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:09:35 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=Brenda-squo-s_Memoir&display=96 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=&display=85 My siblings and I teasingly called Mom---Violet Lee Marshall Sims Sims Barnett Sims Marshall--- to indicate all her marriages and multiple returns to her maiden name. All women think their mother/daughter relationship was complicated---mine really was. Pe ... Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:54:06 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=&display=85 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=Brenda-squo-s_Memoir&display=82 Dad stretched to call himself five feet eight inches. A Golden Gloves Bantam Weight boxing champion, he was wiry, athletic and smart---long torso, short legs and low-slung ass. His white blond hair and crystal clear blue eyes completed the image of the bo ... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:16:35 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=Brenda-squo-s_Memoir&display=82 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=71 My husband, John, and I like to participate in hosting international visitors. Last night our guests were imans---one from Algeria and the other from Mauritania. The International Affairs Council encourages us to allow our guests to experience our culture ... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:14:59 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=71 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=77 I posted the following Merton quote on my Facebook page today: "What do we have to offer the world that the world doesn t already have too much of?" And then I asked for responses. I want to share some responses with first names only. From Barry: "Goo ... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:13:49 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=77 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=68 When I identify my spirituality as being irreverent some folks immediately ask, "What does it mean to have irreverent spirituality?" The meaning of irreverence is multi-layered to me but on the surface is my love of raunchy language. I have a friend who ... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:13:11 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=68 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=67 I had the good fortune of meeting Walter Cronkite (pictured here my husband, John and me). His death has caused reflection from media types about the change in the American public s trust. Uncle Walter was called the most trusted man in America. Why? Be ... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:12:11 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=67 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=64 What a delightful experience speaking to the local Chix in Biz yesterday. In the company of women who gather to support and enhance each other s lives, I am reminded of the importance of girlfriends along the journey. In my personal journey nothing rises ... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:11:21 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=64 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=57 I m from Kentucky where we take our horse racing seriously. A friend of mine, concerned about a homeless man outside her office in Lexington, KY decided she must do something even if minimal. She tucked a twenty dollar bill in an envelope and wrote on t ... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:10:27 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=57 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=60 %2014The bombardment of news about Michael Jackson and the verdict handed down for Bernie Madoff set me to pondering how people choose to handle fame and fortune. Michael Jackson chose to fund a monstrous drug habit and multiple plastic surgeries as he b ... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:09:28 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=60 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=51 A friend of mine bemoaned the fact that we will now have 24/7 coverage of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon. His point that this celebrity coverage usurps the media time for more important events---protests in Iran, wars in Iraq and Afghanist ... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:08:41 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=51 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=81 Since launching this website and BLOG, I have asked for your feedback on my upcoming book. The preponderant thought is that there is real meat in the anecdotes of my life and strong encouragement to make the first published book a strict memoir. It shal ... Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:03:54 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=81 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=about&family=&category=&display=76 ... Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:41:20 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=about&family=&category=&display=76 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=The_Values_Essays&display=17 With a half-century of life behind us, my husband and I experience the best prom night ever and learn anew the value of empathy. Obligatory formal wear sparkles, a Fifties rock n roll theme adds gaiety and an Oscar-like Red Carpet lends to an air of cel ... Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:08:33 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=The_Values_Essays&display=17 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=The_Values_Essays&display=18 When questioned about whether grief was a Value, my response is---without placing Value on our ability to grieve that which we ve lost, how do we recognize the Value of that which we still have? Nothing in my rich, challenging life defines my Values as de ... Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:07:57 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=The_Values_Essays&display=18 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=63 We know we want to manage our multiple responsibilities well but what lies at the core of how we make decisions related to these expenditures of time? Brenda Bartella Peterson, nationally recognized speaker, writer and life coach will challenge our think ... Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:01:35 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=63 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=49 A lesson in memoir First of all, thank you so much, Brenda, for hosting me so soon after your website launch. Brenda and I met through the Raleigh Write2Publish group, and she is the perfect example of the kind of generosity that so many writers extend t ... Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:00:52 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=49 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=46 As I continue to research, write and think about this upcoming book, I am keenly aware of how Values play out in our world. This morning s paper had three lead stories. One on the demonstrations in Iran, one on a group of people volunteering for a good ca ... Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:00:18 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=46 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=79 When Ernest Hemingway was challenged to tell a story in only six words, he came back with "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Wow! What would you say if challenged to tell your life story in only six words. Here s my attempt: Challenges overcomeOmicro ... Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:59:39 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=79 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=66 It has been said that "we teach that which we most need to learn." This maxim was a joke in the Communications Department where I received my Masters degree because we had one professor who had published voluminously on Listening but was a terrible listen ... Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:47:40 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=66 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=home&family=&category=&display=4 Brenda Bartella Peterson speaks, writes and coaches from an authentic center that she has cultivated from a life of challenge, success, grief and joy. Her raw honesty and irreverent humor insures that everyone walks away with a new truth for their own jo ... Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:56:30 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=home&family=&category=&display=4 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=about&family=&category=&display=58 Use the Contacts page to email Brenda about rates and appointments for Individual Life Coaching. ... Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:55:34 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=about&family=&category=&display=58 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=about&family=&category=&display=9 "A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear (that results) from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been inj ... Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:44:38 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=about&family=&category=&display=9 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=The_Values_Essays&display=20 The choice here of the concept of Spirituality, instead of religion, faith or belief, is very intentional. Religion conveys baggage of institutions, structure and divisive doctrine that we humans have been arguing over for centuries. Faith would be my s ... Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:54:22 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=The_Values_Essays&display=20 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=The_Values_Essays&display=14 In my life, community made a huge difference. TeachersPsihellipOmicronpublic school and Sunday SchoolPsihellipOmicroncreated a community for me that provided therapeutic remediation for the chaos of my family life. Even though, I went to fourteen differ ... Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:41:48 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=The_Values_Essays&display=14 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=The_Values_Essays&display=37 On a sweltering hot July day in Evansville, IN, 1954, all the children of welfare families were loaded on to buses and taken to Yabrody Park. %2014Yabrody Park was a pitiful excuse for an amusement park but for welfare children in 1954 it was everything D ... Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:08:53 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=The_Values_Essays&display=37 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=The_Values_Essays&display=16 If we want to, we can define grace as delight in another that comes unearned, undeserved and unexpected. Bertha Neuffer Marshall Whitmer, my maternal grandmother, provides this grace note in my chaotic, abusive, neglectful childhood. In the too-few years ... Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:05:28 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=The_Values_Essays&display=16 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=The_Values_Essays&display=19 We name ourselves Kindred Spirits. Even as their pastor, I expect little beyond meeting once a month, studying spiritual material and sharing thoughts about our faith journeys. Oh, ye, of low expectations. Ten years later, now living in three states, we ... Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:59:08 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=articles&family=&category=The_Values_Essays&display=19 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=36 The response to the new website and to the Chapters of my upcoming book have been gratifying and I am humbled by your response. Keep reading. I will be posting new chapters frequently. I also want to invite readers to suggest Values that have sustained y ... Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:33:05 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=notes&family=&category=&display=36 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=about&family=&category=&display=32 Brenda really knows her material! I was impressed with her competence and she seemed "real" to us when she referenced her personal life. SCT Corporation Vivacious speaker while being truly enlightening. Good humor with down to earth explanations fo ... Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:44:49 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=about&family=&category=&display=32 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=Valuable_Links&display=45 ... Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:48:40 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=Valuable_Links&display=45 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=Valuable_Links&display=44 ... 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Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:43:52 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=links&family=&category=Valuable_Links&display=25 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=about&family=&category=&display=13 Brenda exhibits proficiency with media in all it s variety. The list below is not exhaustive but an example of the range she has done. 2020Democrats.org Al-Jazeera TV News Associated Baptist Press BeliefNet.com Bill O Reilly, Fox News British Broadcast ... Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:33:09 EST http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=about&family=&category=&display=13 http://www.brendabartellapeterson.com/index.php?page=about&family=&category=&display=10 Appalachia Regional Hospital Business and Professional Women s Forum Cardinal Hill Hospital Central Bank City of Georgetown, KY Clark Materials and Handling Co Clergy Leadership Network National Conference Congressman Larry Hopkin s Women s Confe ... 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