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I absolutely purchased a couple lottery tickets this week in anticipation of winning the mega million lottery this evening. You have to be in it to win it, right? Now that I have tickets I can speculate about what I will DO with my winnings. It is wonderful to have this silly permission to fantasize [...]
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I am away on a work trip in Baltimore. Last night my Mother forwarded me some found photos of some of my family. I had never seen these photos before. When someone has died you think you will never see another moment of them. Ever. All you have of a person are the life memories [...]
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Describing the rush of empowered energy that I wooshed through this weekend is going to be impossible. (but I will try.) Imagine that you have been tasked to create a perfume, something that would be the essence that embodied the beautiful and complicated notion of: WOMAN. Like a skilled perfumer you know that you will [...]
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I feel the energy of my Grandmother all the time. I see her in almost every older woman I encounter. Because of that I end up thinking of Alzheimer’s or dementia or elder care several times a day. I was taught to speak and understand a specific language and now I have the ability to hear [...]
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I am sure you have heard about the group that strongly opposes JC Penney hiring Ellen DeGeneres as part of JCP’s new ad campaign. This group threatened JC Penney saying that hiring Ellen was anti family. Because Ellen is gay. And according to this group being gay means you are anti family. As a friend of [...]
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Oh for goodness sakes! Yes. Another cold, sickness, yuk has taken over my house. I was the first to fall down, then Mother started coughing and getting all congested, and now W is a nonstop running nose. I know when you are sick your body tries to force you to slow down so that you [...]
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Tomorrow I will be sharing with you the first guest post in my In Times Like These series. I am excited to share other points of view from other families in times of need. Please come back to read these 1st person stories. It’s no secret that I am rather fond of the internet. The [...]
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This is now officially the first month in two years that my family has not been depending on food stamps to feed ourselves. The moment that I realized that I no longer qualified for these benefits was incredibly triumphant for me. Within the same moment of celebrating I also felt so incredibly thankful. I have [...]
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As soon as I found out about getting one’s hair straightened out at a salon I was intrigued. (And by “intrigued” I really mean, “I SO WANTED IN!”) My friend Paz was the first person I know to get it done and it looked amazing on her. It’s been one of those “when I can [...]
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