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Itâs been awhile since Petra and I sat down for a mocktail and a recorded conversation. This week weâre bringing you a legit drink created by a private chef and the author of the Real Food Sanity Substack, Christi Flaherty.

Here's Christi Flahertyâs recipe for a Watermelon CoolerÂ

Single MocktailÂ

2 oz watermelon juice*Â 3/4 oz lime juiceÂ 1/4 oz honey syrup (equal parts honey and water shaken together until honey dissolves)Â 2-3 sprigs of mintÂ Club soda**Â

Batch Mix for 4Â 8 oz watermelon juice*Â 3 oz lime juice (about 1/3 cup)Â 1 oz honey syrup (about 2 tbsp)Â

2-3 sprigs of mintÂ Club soda**Â

For single Mocktail:Â

Muddle (mash) the mint in a cocktail shaker. Add the juices, honey syrup and a little ice. Shake well then strain over ice in a short glass (lowball) top off the Topo Chico.Â

If you donât have a cocktail shaker, just muddle the mint in the bottom of a glass, simply add ice cubes in the juices and honey syrup, stir then top off the top of Chico.Â

Christi Flaherty of Real Food Sanity

About Christi Flaherty

For 20 years private chef and holistic nutritionist, Christi Flaherty cooked for families and created multi-course wine pairing dinners in both Napa Valley and the Dallas areas. She recently realized her passion for teaching people to cook outweighed her love of cooking FOR people. A former Whole30 Certified Coach, Christi began developing gluten, dairy and soy free recipes as well as real food driven mocktails for private cooking classes, weekly meal plans and her blog. Her recent move to Substack brings her weekly recipes and essays on the food & human connection to her publication Real Food Sanity with weekly meal plans and cooking classes for paid subscribers in the works.

Links in this episode:

* Links to Eruption are in this post

* I Lived - One Republic

* Civil War

* Masters of the Air

* Humpback Whales

* Sophia Jensenâs Road to Paris

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Each week Andrew shares 3 Things he discovered on the web and an original poem (and sometimes he records it as a mini episode).

If you like it, drop a comment.Links:1. Christian Invisibility- The Barna Group

-George Barn'as interview with the Christian post on "Christian Invisibility"2. Bouncy Balls- An article about how oiur organs are just plastic water bottles

- Report on plastic showing up in human testicles

3. Standing O's at CannesMegalopolis, Francis Ford Coppolaâs self-financed (at $120 million!) futuristic film that critics are loving to hate, received a 7 minute standing O after it screened.

Furiosa, the new Mad Max film which will be a visual spectacle received an 8 minute standing O at Cannes. (But itâs Memorial Day weekend opening was really week, the lowest in decades (gulp).

Horizon: An American Saga (the first part of Kevin Costnerâs partially self-financed multi-part Western) received a 9.5 minute standing O.BBC: Why are Cannes standing ovations so weirdly long?

Vulture: tracking which films and filmmakers received the longest.

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Listen in as author Andrew Kooman reads from his adventure series Ten Silver Coins: The Drylings of Acchora.

In todayâs episode, Andrew reads Chapter Two: The Forest.

Catch up on other episodes right here.

If you enjoy what youâre hearing, please share it with a friend. Help a family find their new favourite series!

You can read the novel for free, week-by-week, when you subscribe to Andrewâs newsletter at andrewkooman.com

If you donât want to wait for the next chapter, you can buy the books on Amazon.

Synopsis of Book One

Ten Silver Coins: The Drylings of Acchora

Before she ran away from the city of Vendor, Jill Strong was only known as a Daughter of Disgrace.Â Â Everything changes when she flees to the Forest and is given a treasureâten silver coinsâwhich she quickly loses.Â Â It is up to Jill and Simon, the boy she meets in the Forest, to recover the treasure.

To so, the Children enter Acchora, a world inhabited by the Drylings who hide in the belly of a dormant volcano under the curse of the Rashtakar, the cruel being who seeks the very treasure Jill has lost.Â Â In Vendor, imagination and adventure are forbidden.Â Â In Acchora, without them, Jill, Simon and the Drylings have no hope for survival.

This is a public episode. If youâd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.andrewkooman.com/subscribe

Listen in as author Andrew Kooman reads from his adventure series Ten Silver Coins: The Drylings of Acchora.

In todayâs episode, Andrew reads Chapter Two: The Forest.

If you enjoy what youâre hearing, please share it with a friend. Help a family find their new favourite series!

You can read the novel for free, week-by-week, when you subscribe to Andrewâs newsletter at andrewkooman.com

If you donât want to wait for the next chapter, you can buy the books on Amazon.

Synopsis of Book One

Ten Silver Coins: The Drylings of Acchora

Before she ran away from the city of Vendor, Jill Strong was only known as a Daughter of Disgrace.Â Â Everything changes when she flees to the Forest and is given a treasureâten silver coinsâwhich she quickly loses.Â Â It is up to Jill and Simon, the boy she meets in the Forest, to recover the treasure.

To so, the Children enter Acchora, a world inhabited by the Drylings who hide in the belly of a dormant volcano under the curse of the Rashtakar, the cruel being who seeks the very treasure Jill has lost.Â Â In Vendor, imagination and adventure are forbidden.Â Â In Acchora, without them, Jill, Simon and the Drylings have no hope for survival.

Praise forÂ Ten Silver Coins: The Drylings of Acchora (Book 1)

âI HAVE A 13 YEAR OLD WHO'S DYING TO READ THE NEXT BOOK IN YOURÂ TEN SILVER COINSÂ SERIES.Â HE'S LITERALLY SQUIRMING OUT OF HIS SKIN WITH THE EMOTION OF IT ALL! IT'S CAPTURED MY NON-READING SON!"Â

âÂ Deja P., Happy Parent to reader ofÂ Ten Silver Coins

"THOROUGHLY ENGAGING AND REFRESHINGLY ORIGINAL, KOOMANâSÂ RICHLY VISUAL STYLE INJECTS A COMPELLING LIVELINESS INTO EVERY PAGE.â

~Â MARK WEBER,Â RED DEER EXPRESS

"THE FIRST NOVEL IN A TRILOGY OF JILL STRONG ADVENTURES,Â TEN SILVER COINS IS AN EXCELLENT TALE OF SECOND CHANCES AND ACCEPTANCE, NO MATTER WHERE YOU COME FROM OR WHAT YOUR PAST MAY BE.âÂ

~Â ASSOCIATED CONTENT

âIMAGINATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE,Â TEN SILVER COINS: THE DRYLINGS OF ACCHORAÂ IS â¦ SURE TO PLEASE AND DELIGHT READERS OF ALL AGES. A THRILLING PAGE TURNER, THE STORY IS TOLD IN THE TRADITION OF ADVENTURE AND FANTASY FICTION, A SURVIVOR TALE ABOUT COURAGE AND FINDING VOICE.â

~Â PR LOG

âALTHOUGH AIMED AT A YOUNGER AUDIENCE PRIMARILY, THEREâS NO QUESTION ADULTS WILL ALSO ENJOY THE BOOK AND GET HOOKED ON THE LIKEABLE JILLâS CONSTANT STREAM OF ADVENTURES.â

About Andrew Kooman

Andrew Kooman is a Canadian writer of fiction, poetry, plays, and films. His work has been enjoyed by audiences around the world and translated into lots of different languages.Â

Heâs the author of the childrenâs books Popcorn Helmet and Simple Christmas Spectacular, the first two books in the Ramsey P. Heaton, Future Billionaire series. Andrew likes to make people laugh in church. His popular plays and skits are performed across North America and can be purchased at SkitGuys.com.

Andrew founded UnveilTV with his brothers Matthew and Daniel, where you can watch content that inspires you. You can follow all of Andrewâs latest work on his weekly newsletter Things I Wrote Down and find him on X and Instagram.

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