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In the tradition of Gail Sheehy’s classic Passages , All Things at Once shows women how to reach their full potential in all areas of life — and at every stage of their journey. Readers will recognize their friends, their mothers, their daughters and themselves in this refreshingly honest memoir. As the co-host of MSNBC’s popular morning show “Morning Joe,” Mika Brzezinski has established herself as a leading political news journalist and beloved television personality. But success hasn’t always come easy for Mika. Growing up the only daughter of a former National Security Advisor, she struggled to find an identity in a family of over-achievers. She found her dream job early on and was hailed as the “It Girl” of CBS, only to be fired just a few short years later. After an unsuccessful stint as a stay-at-home mom, Mika went back to the workplace with encouragement from her then-8-year-old daughter. She took a job that seemed a long-shot at best, and against all odds achieved the greate

  Canna ‘Cleopatra’ is a gorgeous herbaceous plant which despite being introduced in 1895 has been seemingly missing from the plants beds of UK garden centres. Growing to approximately 1.2 metres tall, this bi-coloured ornamental specimen has the star quality to stand out amongst the regular collection of canna lilies. Its strange, haphazard chocolate/green leaf colourisation is due to it being an unstable colour hybrid. It is as though two distinctly different colour forms have been spliced together but rather than one dominating so that the hybrid reverts to just the one type, the variation is extremely stable! There is even a colour choice of red, yellow and even a mixture of the both. Remember to dead-head your spent booms to encourage more flowering. Flowering from mid-summer to the autumn, it will perform best in organically rich, well drained soils. Canna ‘Cleopatra’ will tolerate a shady position but to get the best show of blooms position in full sun. However it will require w