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Sometimes Love Can’t Shut Up

Movie Review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Tired of Previews

Movie Review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Matthew Flowers of Band, The Visitors! Cher Duncombe

Matthew Flowers of Band, The Visitors!

I Now Pronounce You Husband and Husband Sips of Jen and Tonic

I Now Pronounce You Husband and Husband

Pondering Mother’s Day

Pondering Mother’s Day | My first few Mother’s Days as a mother were what most people think Mother’s Day should be. Simple Hallmark moments…

May 14, 2012 / 4 Comments / Read More

American Rebuttal

American Rebuttal | Robb Grindstaff Writer-Editor Saw this: To the citizens of the United States… some time back, and I penned this American…

May 6, 2012 / 4 Comments / Read More

The Cab and the Cat

The Cab and the Cat | I suffer from intermittent attacks of sciatica and as I grow older they seem to be getting worse. Want to…

May 4, 2012 / 10 Comments / Read More

PFC LaVena Lynn Johnson Speaks!

PFC LaVena Lynn Johnson Speaks!

| On April 28, 2012, I attended the NWVAA (National Women’s Veterans Association of America) 1st Annual “Break the Silence” Military Sexual Assault & Suicide Advocates in San Diego, California. The Conference featured Veteran Women bravely telling their stories of sexual assault and abuse suffered by…

May 14, 2012 / 14 Comments / Read More

We Rise In Greatness (Tribute to Mothers)

We Rise In Greatness (Tribute to Mothers) | Image Credit by Alicia Yamen WE RISE IN GREATNESS We gather around the world to…

May 13, 2012 / 6 Comments / Read More

Out My Mind- Porch Lady Talk and a Revolver

Out My Mind- Porch Lady Talk and a Revolver | Out My Mind, Just In Time I’m a recovering undercover over-lover recovering from a love…

April 18, 2012 / 10 Comments / Read More
~Mantra’s Story~ Making My Way Clear
~ Risha’s Story~ “AND AIN’T I AN AMERICAN?”
Her-Story Challenge
Resurrection
Sleepless Nights – Find Me a Solution

Sleepless Nights – Find Me a Solution

|   “Woh, that’s some luggage you’re carrying around under your eyes. Why don’t you just go to bed earlier and get a full eight hours.” “I would love to sleep straight through for eight hours, unfortunately I live in a world of car alarms, shops…

April 19, 2012 / 31 Comments / Read More

The Eye of the Beholder

The Eye of the Beholder | Samantha Brick has recently made herself the talk of the internet, television and newspapers. In…

April 5, 2012 / 30 Comments / Read More

Joyce Carol Vincent – Dreams of a Life

Joyce Carol Vincent – Dreams of a Life |   I first came across the story of Joyce Carol Vincent (pictured above) when reading…

April 2, 2012 / 13 Comments / Read More
A Guide to Getting Your Self-Published Book Seen (by any means possible)
A Resident
The Single Person’s Midlife Crisis
Waiting in the 11th Arrondissement
George the Bum

George the Bum

| Perception is not always reality.  He would walk up the block in his ski cap, red flannel jacket, a day or two’s growth on his face.  We would stop whatever we were doing and run for our lives.  He scared us.  We never really knew…

May 14, 2012 / 2 Comments / Read More

Mediterranean Homesick Blues

Mediterranean Homesick Blues | Sometimes you have to travel with your mind.  A carafe of wine.  The smell of…

May 8, 2012 / 7 Comments / Read More

It Must Have Been the Ambiance

It Must Have Been the Ambiance | Coffee, Pie, and Books That Brought Back a Childhood Memory.    Queen Street East in…

May 3, 2012 / 9 Comments / Read More
The Law of Attraction
Disengaged From the World
A Touch of Nihilism: Take Two and Call Me In The Morning
Legend Americana
Mitt is It.

Mitt is It.

| The core of Mitt’s campaign strategy seems to be the conviction that he can say anything and pay no price plus contempt for the voters and the news media. But maybe, he is mistaken, and his serial dishonesty will become, justifiably, the heart of the…

April 19, 2012 / 8 Comments / Read More

Equal Protection of Due Process

Equal Protection of Due Process | With the arrest and charging of George Zimmerman On Wednesday, 11 April 2012, with second…

April 14, 2012 / 2 Comments / Read More

The Specter of Secularism

The Specter of Secularism | We, the people, are united by our shared humanity and our common citizenship. We are…

April 13, 2012 / 3 Comments / Read More
The Republic Born Anew
What Good Are We?
Meeting the Patriotic Standard
A Deficit of Truth
Happy Birthday Fenway Park: Boston Celebrates Fenway’s 100th Anniversary

Happy Birthday Fenway Park: Boston Celebrates Fenway’s 100th Anniversary

| Fenway Park is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium in the United States, having opened on April 20, 1912. On that date, the Red Sox played against the New York Highlanders (later renamed the New York Yankees) and celebrated a 7-6 victory over them. Fittingly,…

April 20, 2012 / 7 Comments / Read More

The Resilient Child

The Resilient Child | Teaching PE last week, one of my kindergarteners (we’ll call him John) seemed unusually despondent…

April 8, 2012 / 8 Comments / Read More

Missing Jessica

Missing Jessica | 2012-04-03 All too frequently, the evening news will highlight a missing child, teen or young…

April 3, 2012 / 5 Comments / Read More
Where Does Low Self-Esteem Come From?