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I sat in the lobby with my hands tingling from the long walk in.  The same feeling of muscles falling into slumber and waking up abruptly happens when the cold, Minnesota, air, overtakes the skin. It was all emotion to me: tingling excitement over sitting in the chairs I had earlier dreamed of the color, …

Tonight for my friends- I did horrific acts on a dead turkey. Friendsgiving is tomorrow night. We claim good people, plenty of food and enough wine to help us get over driving home to see our families in two days. I stupidly offered to host and make the bird-beast. It started with a conversation with …

The tone of this piece is priceless Liz Jones is a ‘columnist’ for the UK Mail Online. She’s pretentious, ignorant and every other justifiable adjective when I realized her ‘beauty regimen’ was about $1600 a month. (Just in treatments.) “Here, being poor can not only be isolating and almost impossible to escape from, it can …

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive — the risk to be alive and express what we really are. – Don Ruiz On the weekends- for fun,  I lead youth at a local parish. I don’t make enough to buy groceries on, or pay …

I have… amazing friends.  I feel that I’m blessed more than the average human female for being able to tell those that come in my door, or leave that the words, “I love you,” don’t only resonate of my mouth, but of my heart; none of which was more apparent than last night. We stepped …

Harry Burns: I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, and the thing is, I love you. Sally Albright: What? Harry Burns: I love you. Sally Albright: How do you expect me to respond to this? Harry Burns: How about, you love me too. Sally Albright: How about, I’m leaving. -When Harry Met Sally (1989) I …

To those that we lose along the way, and those that can’t see the truth in front of them. #MusicAnyday Pearl Jam: Light Years Video i’ve used hammers made out of wood i have played games with pieces and rules i undeciphered tricks at the bar but now you’re gone, i haven’t figured out why …

I climbed up to the podium this morning after exactly two cups of coffee and enough internal pep talks to cause fervor in a room full of skeptics. I spoke and the words that came out of my mouth resonated from a deeper place than what faced me on the PowerPoint screen. I saw it instantaneously- the …

This past year has been giggles and tendrils of silken, red, hair. Ava would run into a room to say something in her ‘silly voice,’ then run all the way back up the stairs to console her stuffed animals and proclaim, “Momma! You are my favorite!“  This was a year of potty training and explaining …

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I don’t know what type of little girl she is, but judging by the boxes of her cherished possessions, I saw her love of stuffed animals, the color pink and that she had a birthday at a bowling alley, where everyone signed a bowling pin. I walked into work today and joked to a coworker …

I’d like to imagine that after I die, music will play in my absence- so that each person, when they hear a certain song can smile, and the soundtrack of my life will ring out through six feet of dirt and gravel. Certain songs have powers of healing- though first, the tears come. The nose …

As I started to picture the trees in the storm, the answer began to dawn on me. The trees in the storm don’t try to stand up straight and tall and erect. They allow themselves to bend and be blown with the wind. They understand the power of letting go. Those trees and those branches …

Brian Ward lost his job on a Friday afternoon. Eleven days later he had a new one. With nearly 1 in 10 people out of work and the typical job search lasting 12 weeks, how did the Cleveland-based software architect pull it off? In a phrase: online social networking….    -Time Magazine   I recently led …

For a long time I thought I was going to write about the love letter’s I’ve received and how they’ve shaped my life. The last three months have been focused on a quiet, positivity that has arose out of strength, or whatever I’ve found that became, lately.  I have them all laid out and the …

Appearently I wrote poetry once. I don’t remember writing it, but upon further inspection and the to: address, I’m going to assume it was a momentary lapse of non-cynical judgement and that after years of bitter distress, I’m much better now. I was cleaning out old emails, (in an address that should never be opened …

It is with the deepest sympathy after trying fruitlessly to find the video otherwise NOT ON perez hilton, that I beg you, to put on your latex gloves, and don a hazmat suit: because we’s going in…. The Awful Then: The Reaction Perez draws white spots on ‘celebrities’ for a living, so when I received …

They call her Chickie because of her affinity for Chicklets.The soft and gooey, the sticky and colorful- would describe my aunt perfectly with her hugs, or words of encouragement- the daily quotes she posts to her facebook wall. Colorful and loving- someone who’s shaped my life with passionate words, thoughts and the idea that “Kate …