I’ll tell you what makes me happy (Lush lovers, please pardon the steal of this happy, happy phrase): Finding another small, small, nature-lovin’, happy hippy kind of home business that compliments Lush products, which i have fallen madly in love with over the past month or so. Enter Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. Never before have [...]
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IGNITE. EVOLVE. TRANSCEND.Archive for July, 2006
I’m looking forward to the day. My wife and older daughter are hitting the theater to see Pirates, and I’ll be at home with the younger two (ages 4 and 2). It’ll be fun to be goofy with them for a few hours without having to worry about the pre-teen-itude to come creeping in from [...]
Grab the Scavenger Hunt code. Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants. This week’s theme: Pets/Animals This little emu welcomed us at our local petting zoo one morning…(shhh…she really thinks of herself as quite the beauty!)
Thanks to all for your responses regarding my Thursday Thirteen… The one untruth in the list is….no. 10. It is something that i have always wanted to do, but alas, I have never left North America…. And…I did get away from the cop in hot pursuit! How lucky I was that night….Though the duck-crossing sign [...]
Thirteen Things about Rus Ok, folks. TWELVE of these are true, which means that one is not. Can you guess which one of these 13 is NOT true about me? Good luck! 1. I was a vegan for 18 months, lost 80 pounds, and took 100 points off of my overall cholesterol level.2. I drove [...]
to a mix of 127 JT songs… I did not know Jenn See. She died at such a young age from an apparent heart aneurysm just a day or so after returning from Bonnaroo. I learned of her death rather serendipitously following the links of one commenter, Carl V., who stopped by Janet’s site and [...]
Over the past few days I’ve been refining some of the components to my blog; I hope you find them helpful. The biggest addition is the publication and contest opportunity link that opens up a calendar of calls for submissions and contests where writers might be interested in submitting their work. You can find this [...]
Thanks to Janet for showing me the way to this…(and evidently, I mean that sincerely). :) You’re Not Sarcastic At all Sarcasm isn’t for you, and you really don’t appreciate it when people get their snark on. You still have a great sense of humor. You just prefer a silly joke to a sarcastic one. [...]
MP tossed a seed into a mug one day, said a little wish, and hoped to witness the birth of a flower. Yesterday, her seed matured and a beautiful sunflower introduced herself to the world. MP believes. She has faith in a seed, and now a whole lot more.
The Writer’s War Within: Exploring the Creative Battleground When Watcher and the Muse Fight for Your Time (for the story behind this vomit draft, see the previous post: 15 on the Fives, no. 7) This is raw, folks. But it’s a draft of something, nonetheless. We’ll see where it goes. (Already the watcher looks over [...]
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