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 my year…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Poison Preservatives & Vanishing Bees
Read moreOver the past several years something has come to my attention, time and again. It appears that instead of making the health and well-being of its citizens its top priority, the United States Government is bending to the will of big corporate lobbyists. There are…