Elisa Bosley

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As a professional editor and writer, I love crafting stories about people, places, and experiences in all their beauty and complexity. As a former food editor, I'm passionate about cooking and eating healthy, tasty food for long-term happiness.

I'm also a chaplain; for SpiritualEldercare.com, click here.

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February 12, 2015

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4 reasons to love chia seeds, plus my favorite chia recipe

Last weekend, my niece and mom asked me about chia seed. They knew it was something healthy to eat,...

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December 20, 2016

Christmas recipe fix: Raisin Mumbles cookie bars

Last week, a dear friend of mine sent me a blurry photo and recipe with this hilarious comment: “This recipe...

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June 16, 2016

Kitul nectar: a new (old) organic sweetener

A few weeks ago, I received a sample of a new product called Cocotrella, made by Ceylon Pure. It’s...

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April 26, 2016

3 surprising reasons to love the paleo diet

My article Mythbusting the Paleo Diet is now live on DeliciousLiving.com! Check it out and let me know what you think....

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These hands belong to W., a gentleman who lives in one of the senior residences where I serve as chaplain. (Due to privacy laws I can’t show his face.) . Because of the upcoming Martin Luther King holiday, this weekend my Spiritual Eldercare services focus on the theme of #justice. I use this illustration of #MLK during the service to spark people’s memories. . As I was gathering residents before yesterday’s service, I told W that we’d be honoring MLK and hearing excerpts from the iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. . “I was there,” W. said with a nod. .[pause while my mind explodes] “Wait... you were THERE? At MLK’s speech??” I said. “Yes indeed,” he said. . W then proceeded to tell me about living in Virginia at the time, working with MLK (“I was in charge of my church”) and being at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington, August 1963. “It was HOT,” he said. “We all dipped our feet in the water there.” . The he went on: “It was the most amazing speech I ever heard. He was a great, great man. There were police everywhere because they thought we were gonna tear the town apart. But there were only a couple of arrests for drunkenness and traffic violations, and that was IT. And from that day on,” he ended emphatically, “the Movement really STARTED.” . I mean, wow. . If that’s not enough to give you goosebumps, check out the video of what he said to the whole group after the service. Normally he is very quiet, but yesterday, when we were done with worship (a rousing time of singing gospel songs [@drmichaelawilliams] and talking about God’s heart for justice and mercy), he said, “I want to say something.” So I turned him around in his wheelchair and caught most of it on my phone. . These kinds of stories are one reason why I feel so lucky to do what I do. . (And in case you’re wondering, W’s story was confirmed by a visitor who’s a Vietnam vet and has known W for years, including bringing W to speak at the Veterans Museum in Westminster.) #spiritualeldercare #martinlutherking #Ihaveadream #respect

Can’t wait to dig into these books 💜💜💜#dementia #alzheimers #worship #ministry #elders #spirituality #faith

In lieu of a Christmas card, a few photo highlights from 2019. Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

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