Help End World Hunger

If you would like to help end world hunger and support a great organization this Christmas, please go to my PAGE at Heifer.
There are many things you can do and it is a wonderful way to engage children in the world issue of hunger and poverty. You can buy a flock of chickens for [...]

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Modern Art: How I learned to love what I could not identify as a realistic portrail of life

Art has always been an incredibly big part of my life and while I was myself surprised to marry a painter when I look back at my relationship with art and museums it is really not surprising. My dad and mom separated when I was 4 and divorced when I was six. Dad did not [...]

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Would you like to see my new boobs?

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Sobbing

Talking on the phone and trying to redress Chica as she had spilled decafe on her white jeans while shopping for grocceries this morning she decided to put on a new summery dress from her Aunt Mary. The dress has short sleeves and is white with blue and green flowers. I put a long sleeved [...]

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Cold feet warm bed

Dreaming loudly laying in my quiet bed warm under feathers, blankets, sheets and a wool cap I hear a tiny congested voice call the name I have grown to loathe. The covers flip back in one movement and my body is instantly cold and chattery. Shuffeling in the dark to escort the young one to [...]

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Buy Nothing Day

Be bold, be brave and …….
DON’T GO TO THE STORES/MALL TODAY.

If you like to buy things for your loved ones…do all year long, when the mood strikes you, when they deserve it, to celebrate a good or happy event. Don’t bend to the will of commercialism and advertisers who have hijacked most of our holidays [...]

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Retarded

I was watching Lewis Black, the comic, on Comic Relief this weekend and he talked about the word retarded. Mr. Black claimed that it is a great word, very useful and we shouldn’t let it go due to pressure for being politically correct. He cautioned that if you should never use it when referring to [...]

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Amuse me, darling

The summer after I met my husband, then boyfriend, in Ptown I had the pleasure to work for Pascal and Laura in their jewelery/”art” gallery. The gallery was a joke and the paintings all came from an assembly line in China, but hey, if it goes with your couch perfectly I guess it is art. [...]

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Cleaning house

Why does having a clean house make you feel so right? Everything in its place and spic-n-span sparkle makes me feel relaxed and happy.
Conversely, why does picking up my shit and the extraneous crap that the spawn spew make me feel faint, tired and overwhelmed? I love to clean because of the end result. [...]

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Working man o’mine

Tonight my children wanted to talk to their grandmother so we called her at work. My son loves to ask for her and always forgets her first name and will say, “Is my Grammy, I mean, my Barbara there?” After oldest spawn had his turn with the phone his pleading germ filled coughing sister desired [...]

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