kathleen daniels: When Friendship Comes with a Price Tag | What is the Point?
- 06/15/25 10:20 AM
After years of exchanging comments on ActiveRain blog posts, endless phone calls, emails, and planning ...
The day arrives – June 14, 2025. Such a historical day: Flag Day, the Army’s 250th Anniversary, Donald J. Trump’s 79th Birthday, J.D. Vance’s Wedding Anniversary, AND the day I have long waited for, the day I meet Dr. Paula McDonald.
We planned to meet on the last part of their trip to California. Paula, her husband, and son drove from Southern California to San Jose to meet in person.
I'm anxious and excited, just watching the clock as I watch the Army’s 250th Anniversary Parade on … (24 comments)
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kathleen daniels: Mr. Crappy's 1,000,000 Active Rain Point Store Redemption!
- 06/08/25 09:04 AM
Once upon a time, in a small town where regrets lingered as heavily as Monday morning coffee breath, there existed a peculiar fictional establishment called "The Active Rain Point Store," owned by Miss Anna "Banana" Kruchten Arizona's Top Banana.
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The inhabitants of this town weren’t trading goods or services here, oh no—they were swapping their points for life corrections. The store’s motto read, *"Fix the stupid crap from your past, one point at a time!"*
Mr. Crappy, a charmingly eccentric fellow known for solving problems in ways that always seemed to be slightly off-center. He had earned his nickname for his unapologetic … (30 comments)
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kathleen daniels: Pointing One Million to The Tunnel to Towers Foundation
- 06/06/25 07:17 AM
Honoring Heroes and Supporting FamiliesThe Tunnel to Towers Foundation is a beacon of hope, resilience, and solidarity, offering vital support to the families of fallen first responders and military personnel. Founded to honor the heroism of Stephen Siller, a firefighter who made the ultimate sacrifice on September 11, 2001, the organization has grown into a nationwide movement dedicated to keeping the memory of sacrifice alive while providing tangible assistance to those in need.
The Inspiration Behind the T2T FoundationOn the fateful day of September 11, 2001, Stephen Siller, a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department, was off duty when the … (18 comments)
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kathleen daniels: Life Shaping Experiences | Angels in the Infield
- 03/30/25 03:21 PM
We are shaped by people and experiences throughout our lives. In the March ActiveRain challenge hosted by Lew Corcoran and Patricia Faeger, we are asked to share the profound impact someone had on you in shaping you into who you are today.
I am the way I am largely due to how My Parents Shaped Who I Am Today, they set a strong foundation.
I am not only shaped by the powerful foundation and strength my parents built but by the loving support from my son during the "Dark Night of the Soul" experience with stage 3 breast cancer", I am also shaped … (19 comments)
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kathleen daniels: Life Defining Experiences | I Know Where All The Bodies Are Buried
- 03/23/25 11:01 AM
We are shaped by people and experiences throughout our lives. In the March ActiveRain challenge hosted by Lew Corcoran and Patricia Faeger, we are asked to share the profound impact someone had on you in shaping you into who you are today.
I am the way I am largely due to how My Parents Shaped Who I Am Today, they set a strong foundation.
I am not only shaped by the powerful foundation and strength my parents built but by the loving support from my son during the "Dark Night of the Soul" experience with stage 3 breast cancer", I am also shaped … (27 comments)
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kathleen daniels: Life Defining Experiences | The Dark Night of the Soul
- 03/16/25 11:37 AM
We are shaped by people and experiences throughout our lives. In the March ActiveRain challenge hosted by Lew Corcoran and Patricia Faeger, we are asked to share the profound impact someone had on you in shaping you into who you are today.
If you want to know why I am the way I am today, it is largely due to how My Parents Shaped Who I Am Today, they set a strong foundation.
The experiences I had, the things I feared, the things I loved, and how throughout my life I emerged from the "Dark Night of the Soul" experiences also shaped me … (21 comments)
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kathleen daniels: Kathleen Daniels | My Parents Shaped Who I Am Today
- 03/09/25 10:36 AM
For this series of weekly posts throughout March, it makes sense that I start with “my parents” who partnered in their relationship. Each had their role in the family unit. I am grateful for everything my parents taught me and everything I learned from them.
My Parents: Dad was the provider. He went to work daily to support his wife and six (6) children. I am the youngest of the six.
Love: Mom was what is affectionately referred to as a “stay-at-home mom”. Mom did the shopping, cooking, and cleaning. When I was in sixth grade, my mom started working an assembly job … (15 comments)
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kathleen daniels: The Things We Do For Love | Spread the Love Challenge
- 02/23/25 01:49 PM
My career as a licensed real estate agent started in January 2003. In April 2006, I became a licensed real estate broker. I chose to be affiliated with a Big Box Brokerage until that no longer fit. If the truth is told, it was never a fit.
In January 2012, I became an Independent Real Estate Broker, choosing to be independent without the responsibility for other real estate agents. That choice fits me like a glove.
Probate Real Estate Agent Kathleen DanielsI did not set out to specialize in probate real estate. It was not a conscious choice. Life has a way of … (22 comments)
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kathleen daniels: Treasured and Cherished Christmas Gifts Received | AR Challenge
- 12/01/24 09:14 AM
The most unique and treasured gift I have ever received is the Gift of my son's life. I recently shared that doctors have described him as a "Miracle Baby." Following an emergency surgery, I was told I would not be able to have children.
That little surprise bundle of Joy is the gift that keeps on giving. My son knows me well and knows what is special to me.
My two most treasured gifts are from my son.
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People who get to know me, even just a little, know Half Moon Bay is my happy place on earth. I believe it was 15 years … (18 comments)
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kathleen daniels: Probate Realtor Kathleen Daniels | Grateful Heart
- 11/30/24 09:29 AM
It is that time of year, November, when we celebrate Thanksgiving.
What do we serve on Thanksgiving?
We express our gratitude and thankfulness
for all the Blessings in our Lives.
I am a daughter, sister, aunt, great-aunt, mother, friend, and so much more including an Independent Real Estate Broker, and Certified Probate Real Estate Specialist ("CPRES"), with a full and grateful heart for all the Blessings in my life!
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Life: I could fill a book diving into life "stories" that fill my heart with gratitude. The more I live, the more I learn that everything is a blessing in one form or another. It may … (14 comments)
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kathleen daniels: Probate Realtor Kathleen Daniels Grateful for Clients
- 11/10/24 08:42 AM
It is that time of year, November, when we celebrate Thanksgiving.
What do we serve on Thanksgiving?
We express our gratitude and thankfulness.
As an Independent Real Estate Broker, and Certified Probate Real Estate Specialist ("CPRES"), I am grateful for my clients and the friendships formed!
My clients are more than the lifeblood of my business, many clients have become friends.
This Thanksgiving I will be celebrating with clients I met approximately 20 years ago when I first started my real estate career. We have completed several real estate transactions, including a referral to sell one of their homes in another state. I am grateful for … (12 comments)
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kathleen daniels: Probate Realtor Kathleen Daniels | Grateful for Active Rain
- 11/03/24 08:47 AM
It is that time of year, November, when we celebrate Thanksgiving.
What do we serve on Thanksgiving?
For me, as I believe is the case with all of my Active Rain friends, Gratitude is embraced and practiced Every. Single. Day. Perhaps affinity creates incredibly special and close friendships with people we have not met in person.
My Active Rain friends know that our conversations are confidential. That level of trust is a rare find in the world today yet somehow, I have found it on the Internet (of all places) in the Active Rain Community.
I’ve had phone conversations with Active Rain friends that lasted … (35 comments)
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kathleen daniels: Toss It To Me Baby | No Fork Required
- 06/16/24 08:24 AM
This is my all-time favorite go-to salad. I use all Organic products. I promise you won’t find a fresh and clean salad like this in any restaurant.
Nothing Artificial Baby, the Taste is in the Spoon.
Ingredients:
• Broccoli
• Cauliflower
• Zucchini
• Carrots
• Avocado
• Fuji Apple
• Cilantro
• Limes
• Dried Cranberries
• Raisons (Thompsons)
• Walnuts
• Garbanzo Beans
• Black Olives
• Feta Cheese
Let's Get Started!
Wash/bathe fruit and vegetables with Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide
There is a formula for this. 2 cups water to 1oz. H₂O₂.
I soak for at least 20 minutes.
Then rinse and … (25 comments)
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kathleen daniels: Artificial Intelligence | Eat or Be Eaten
- 01/31/24 07:44 AM
Margaret Rome Baltimore 410-530-2400 and Carol Williams are co-hosting the first ActiveRain Challenge of 2024
We are asked to share which side of the AI Coin we are on.
Embracing or Loving AI Resisting or Hating AI Embracing AI
Not yet. I have committed to dabble in it and determine from there if I will embrace AI or break up before a love fest even gets started.
AI is neither embraced by me in my business or my personal life.
Since I did commit to dabble and explore using AI I found a video to help guide me on the do's and don'ts and … (36 comments)
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kathleen daniels: Acts of Kindness | Stand Up for Kindness | Fear No Evil
- 12/20/23 12:07 PM
This post is my third entry in Acts of Kindness | Sharing Love & Joy This Holiday Season the December 2023 Active Rain Challenge.
This post is about an act of kindness by someone I know. It is inspired by something I learned following the death of a friend. I learned that our deceased friend believed something about me, something I allegedly said or did, that was not true. Someone told a straight-up lie, and it was believed as though it were truth.
How often in life does this happen?
How sad that for over ten (10) years my friend believed something about me … (23 comments)
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kathleen daniels: The Total Wine Line | Acts of Kindness
- 12/14/23 02:37 PM
This post is my second entry in Acts of Kindness | Sharing Love & Joy This Holiday Season the December 2023 Active Rain Challenge.
The category chosen for this post is: Share An Act of Kindness You Witnessed.
While standing in line to check out at the Total Wine store, I witnessed a fun "pay it forward" act of kindness.
A man with a shopping cart filled with two cases of wine and many other bottles of wine and assorted liquor bottles turned to the person behind him and said, "You can go in front of me."
The person behind him was holding gift cards. … (23 comments)
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kathleen daniels: Acts of Kindness | Tunnel to Towers Foundation
- 11/13/23 04:13 PM
This post is my first entry in Acts of Kindness | Sharing Love & Joy This Holiday Season the December 2023 Active Rain Challenge.
The category chosen for this post is: Share One of Your Acts of Kindness.
It typically is not my style to talk about things such as this, however, I am a PROUD supporter of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
From the T2T website:
“Since 9/11, we have been helping America’s heroes by providing mortgage-free homes to Gold Star and fallen first responder families with young children and by building specially adapted smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first … (29 comments)
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kathleen daniels: Attitude of Gratitude | Integrative Medicine
- 11/10/23 03:41 PM
I avoid visiting doctors and being in a hospital. I know there is a need for "Western medicine". If I am having a heart attack, I definitely want a heart specialist to treat me. If I break a bone, I definitely want an orthopedic specialist to treat me.
If I am feeling "sick" I am not one to take an over-the-counter relief medicine or most definitely not a Big Pharma pharmaceutical. However, when I had COVID and a horrible cough, I did take over-the-counter cough syrup.
When I had surgery for cancer in October 2012, I left the hospital with the pain medicine … (15 comments)
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kathleen daniels: Attitude of Gratitude | Faith
- 11/10/23 12:44 PM
My Faith has carried me through some incredibly challenging and stressful times both in business and in my personal life.
Faith: "Unquestioning belief that does not require proof or evidence; unquestioning belief in God, religious tenets."
Who among us has not experienced challenging and stressful times in their life?
Over the years, I've grown to refer to such times as the "dark night of the soul" to mean a crisis of faith or a difficult, painful period in life.
It is the unexpected events that creep up behind me and knock a tremendous metaphorical blow to my head. No way did I see that coming!
When that … (21 comments)
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kathleen daniels: An Attitude of Gratitude | Thankful for my Clients
- 11/10/23 08:10 AM
One of the most amazing and beautiful aspects of my real estate business is the people I meet and the people who become clients.
At the beginning of my real estate career in January 2003, I was still in the Corporate America mindset of "it's all business". Business relationships were formed yet, in all my years of experience in Corporate America, friendships were not formed. Business is Business.
Never did I ever think or believe that my real estate clients could or would become friends.
My transition from Corporate America into real estate was a culture shock. As with all things in life, we … (11 comments)
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