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January 31, 2014
The Re-Write
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway Bleeding about sums it up, although in my case, it was at a computer where I bled-out my first draft. Galvanized by my desire to add a real story to the well of fictional stories that […]
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January 22, 2014
Creating Harmony
It’s January 22, 2014 and I may be among the few on the planet who hasn’t yet caught the “New Year’s Resolution” fever—meaning I have not written goals, ambitions, promises, challenges, or lists for 2014. For the most part my birthday is the time when I look at what’s working and what’s not—one age tucked […]
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December 11, 2013
Renewed Faith in Humanity at Sunset
There is enough outrage out there to make any single one of us not want to push back the covers and face the day. The kind of stuff that if you’re even remotely porous when it comes to emotion? Can derail a good mood, faith in the goodness of people and generally make you […]
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December 3, 2013
Giving Tuesday: Stand with Aaron
From Thanksgiving through the New Year, no matter what traditions you celebrate, it is a time when people come together and give thanks. It is a time when loved ones unite. It is a time when many of us pause and take stock in all that we have to be grateful for. Over the […]
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November 30, 2013
Last Day of November
November 30th has arrived and that means three things: November will be over very soon. College Applications for UC’s are due at midnight. It’s the last day of NaBloPoMo (National Blog Post Month) In reverse order: NaBloPoMo. What a month. I could not have predicted just how much I would love and hate the fact […]
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November 29, 2013
The Passage of Time
Tonight as the night began to draw her curtain against the sun I couldn’t help but think how fast the years have slipped past. Sometimes I want to set the hour glass on its side–pause–keep the moment before me in that frame as it is, not let it end. Tonight at Kodiak’s soccer game was […]
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November 28, 2013
Baking and Memory
Crouched down I retrieved the binder which is beyond bursting with recipes—some clipped from newspaper, some from magazines, while others were passed on. I knew what I was looking for when I flipped the tab marked “breads” to the side. Her long-hand penmanship came into view; involuntarily I sat on the cold tile beneath the […]
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November 27, 2013
A Look at Healing
I want to live where soul meets body and let the sun wrap its arms around me, and bathe my skin in water cool and cleansing, and feel what it’s like to be new.—Death Cab for Cutie Though it has been said that time heals all wounds, that has not been my experience. However accepting […]
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November 26, 2013
Music that Leads to Emotional Lockdown: Twisted Mix-Tape Tuesday
Super thrilled to take on another week of Jen Kehl’s, Twisted Mix Tape. This week the theme is: This Song Could Have Sent Me to Jail. Want to join the fun? Great! Create your own and join the Twisted Mix Tape Link-up here. Well the way I see it “JAIL” is a relatively loose […]
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November 25, 2013
Nature’s Bounty
The Promise of a New Day. The way the air smells after the rain. . Nature’s dance: Murmuration.
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