Two thousand & eleven has been extraordinarily epic for so many reasons. I don’t even know where to begin! Personally, I’ve had tremendous highs & desperate lows. In the end, like life, it was terrible & it was beautiful. Here’s a look at the second half of my year. (Click here to see Part 1.) July In July, I: Had the most wonderful 4th of July celebration with my family…
December 2011
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An Epic Year! 2011 in Review (Part 1)
Read moreTwo thousand & eleven has been extraordinarily epic for so many reasons. I don’t even know where to begin! Personally, I’ve had tremendous highs & desperate lows. In the end, like life, it was terrible & it was beautiful. Here’s a look at my year in review. January In January, I: Moved into my own little apartment for a few months Lost one of the most beautiful women I’ll ever…
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Merry Christmas!
Read moreMerry Christmas, friends! I hope that your Christmas celebrations are merry & bright. Here are a few Christmas posts to get you in the spirit: Chase wrote about The Magic of Christmas and it was so beautiful that it made me tear up. Andra is writing a series of posts about her favourite Christmas carols all week. Meg shared a few delicious vegan recipes that would be perfect for any…
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Willing to Be Unpopular
Read more“I’m willing to be unpopular,” writes Rhina Ju, as she recounts the first year of her life changing experiment. When I read that sentence, something exploded inside of me. Her words gave voice to a thing that has been lodged inside of me for months. I am willing to be unpopular. I have learned that: We can choose to be popular, or we can choose to honor our spirits. We…
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Homemade Christmas Presents: Coconut Citrus Body Scrub
Read moreIt’s no secret that I am not a fan of consumerism. I absolutely love the magic of Christmas and the holiday season, but the stress of shopping, spending money, and giving people more crap that they don’t need makes me cringe. So, instead of participating in the consumer Christmas frenzy, this year I decided to make many of the presents that I’ll be giving away. The first of my homemade…
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Poetry Friday: Stations | Audre Lorde
Read moreStations | Audre Lorde Some women love to wait for life for a ring in the June light for a touch of the sun to heal them for another woman’s voice to make them whole to untie their hands put words in their mouths form to their passages sound to their screams for some other sleeper to remember their future their past. Some women wait for their right train in…
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Poetry Friday: Introduction to Poetry | Billy Collins
Read moreIntroduction to Poetry | Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a…
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You Cannot Save People
Read more“You cannot save people. You can only love them.” —Anaïs Nin Like all families, my family had its problems. For as long as I can remember, I believed that it was my responsibility to fix them. And so, at the ripe old age of ten, I started trying. I made lists, drew plans, and created budgets. I’d gotten it into my head that I was responsible for everything that happened…