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Serious Talk on the Internet: Ineffective or Important?

November 11, 2014by Jean Brown 4 Comments

How do you use the internet? Social media? Do you somehow tackle serious issues, political matters, Important Shit when you’re logging on from your computer or phone? Or is it […]

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Book Review: “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed

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The at times scorching, at times freezing, frequently wet and always heavy surface of Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild is enough to be engaging: a hapless, amateur hiker taking on one […]

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When our Dream Life appears rather Ordinary…

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I have to laugh sometimes when I take stock and decide I’m living my dream life. Is this really what I imagined for myself? Staying at home with a toddler, […]

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Dreams, Happiness, Inspiration

Five Years of Grief and Getting On

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From the moment that I stood in the receiving line at the wake–watching shocked face after shocked face go by, grasping their hands, hugging them–I somehow felt like I was the one […]

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Challenges, My Story

Happy Birthday to my Two Year Old!

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Though you were born on October 2nd, it’s October 1st I will always think on as the day you decided to be born, finally making your grand entrance at midnight. […]

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My Story, Parenthood

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