 Do something different for Valentine's Day! Take a cooking class together! Check to see if there's a Sur La Table in your area. They offer a couple's cooking class around Valentine's Day. Lovers, friends, and even parent/child combos are welcome. Do a four-course meal or special dessert. Bound to be fun!
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 We're not the only ones who get a broken heart now and then. But artistic people might have the answer to moving on:
"Take your broken heart, make it into art." —Carrie Fisher, as told to her friend Meryl Streep
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The symmetrical, exuberant heart is everywhere: it gives shape to candy, pendants, the frothy milk on top of a cappuccino, and much else. How can we explain the ubiquity of what might be the most recognizable symbol in the world? Try reading The Amorous Heart An Unconventional History of Love, by Marilyn Yalom. It's fun, fascinating, and eye-opening.
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Having nothing to do with Valentine's Day, except for the color red, I would like to mention another friend's latest novella, mystery author R.P. Dahlke, A Dead Red Horse Thief. For those of you following this exciting and page-turning series, this is a must-read from a writer who delivers a great cozy thriller!
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 Email me back ten interesting facts about Valentine's Day, and I will gift you a FREE ebook copy of The Chocolate Kiss-Off.
Valentine’s Day is around the corner and vats of delicious chocolate are being cooked up to win fair lady’s heart. But at Carlotta’s Chocolates, Carlotta is found cooking in her own vat of chocolate, and not so deliciously. Arrested for her murder is chocolatier Howie Goldberg, good friend to Persephone ‘Percy’ Cole. As one of Manhattan’s first female private detectives, Percy is determined to hunt down the real killer. But the sleuth, herself, is being stalked by the murderer, who not only keeps a diary of the latest kills, but records who is next. Percy Cole tops the list. When the lady shamus finds the elusive killer, will Death be her Valentine?
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
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