Alphabet Soup - A different kind of cook book

This is going to be my sixth book. It is called "Alphabet Soup". I had this idea about a book with 26 chapters where each chapter title starts with a different letter of the alphabet. That is how Alphabet Soup was born. Each chapter a sort of recipe. Could be a recipe for simplicity or a recipe for patience. They say life is how we make it. I guess I could say life is how we bake it. How about a recipe for humility as in humble pie? I have no idea where this new journey will take me but I plan to combine my love for writing with my goals to be the best I can be and to leave the world better than I found it. Below are the chapters as I write them. Here is a link to a digital copy of the book and as I write the chapters I will share them on my blog and link them below. All my other books are here.

Lemonade

Humble pie

Disaster

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Hobby project - Store and view exchange rates

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What is important

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Hobby coding project - Queries for play whe data

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