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Back to Square One: Or Starting Over and Over Again

Back to Square One: Or Starting Over and Over Again

You’ve pounded treadmills, bought and USED one exercise DVD after the next, cried with all The Biggest Loser contestants and scream when they jump from weight scale bleeper and to commercial RIGHT before the results hit the screen!

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Reinvention In Progress

Reinvention In Progress

LOOK FOR US IN SPRING 2012!  

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In the Doghouse: Slips of the Tongue

Sarah Palin – Sorry, I had to bring her up. Do you REFUDIATE my doing so? I probably would too, but I don’t think anyone has ever figured out what it means. According to Mrs. P. herself, back in 2010, she meant to say ‘REPUDIATE’ instead. Opponents took it as...

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Red-Letter Day…

Red-Letter Day…

“There are two ways to live your life – one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein. WORLD WIDE WEB – Southwestern USA – February 8, 2011 – It is my privilege to report, upon full investigation there is both eternal and...

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Word Weaver Series: Life is Like A Song

Word Weaver Series: Life is Like A Song

When parental understanding failed, when my crush didn't crush me back, when I bombed a test, or forgot to do my homework, when grandma went back to God, when my dog decided to meet her ........

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Confession is Good for the Muse

Confession is Good for the Muse

“I'm a literary superhero shooting words like lightning bolts…the electrified ink hits the page and burning sentences into living form….”

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Literacy Cause and Effect: Pointing The Finger

Literacy Cause and Effect: Pointing The Finger

Authors Note: I believe reading literacy is a RIGHT not a privilege. The privilege is in the fact that the law that protects your right to an education. I don’t know from what land or universe you might be reading this message, but live from planet Earth, on the North American hemisphere lay a...

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Read Me A Story – If You Can

Read Me A Story – If You Can

There are hundreds of Mr. Dads, Ms. Moms, Jackie Jobholders alive and not so well in America. Their life roles are diverse. I knew one on a personal basis. I was an eyewitness to the struggle, the stereotyping and the social stigma. My ringside seat makes it insanely ironic that I (myself)...

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Word Tapestry Series:The Secret of Rainy Days

Word Tapestry Series:The Secret of Rainy Days

Aware I couldn’t tarry in this forbidden land, I retraced and stepped carefully back upon the ladder. I paused looking about from my lofty perch. I witnessed leafy treetops bursting with preening birds, gazed upon the naked field behind our house and observed the lonely stretch of interstate adjacent.

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Becoming Real

Becoming Real

by Idella Woods, September 22, 2010 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "You were born an original.  Don’t die a copy." ~ John Mason To reinvent oneself sounds so ….lofty……noble…..pompous…adventurous.  What does it even mean to REINVENT? Did I invent myself in the first place? Technically, no – but otherwise YES.   The decision to do it is actually EASY. ...

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