Love Your Body

Ever get tired of seeing how the media, advertisers and Hollywood misuses and abuses the female image for furthering their own agendas?  Well, check out the details for the NOW Foundation’s 2010 Love Your Body campaign poster contest.  Contest winner receives $600 and the honor of having their poster design distributed to girls and women [...]

A Different Sort of Change

Ok, so the following video calls for an entirely different sort of change than that referenced in my last post.  But, while I was searching You Tube for David Bowie’s Changes, I came across this video.  If you haven’t seen it by now, you obviously haven’t been spending much time perusing the techniverse of social [...]

Ch-ch-ch-changes…

I used to think I was pretty good at handling changes…welcoming of new adventures…a seeker of the unfamiliar.  But, in four short months, my world will turn upside down and I seem to be struggling with that fact. 
Yes, I grew up outside of Seattle, went to school in Tacoma and lived in Pittsburgh for five [...]

Social Media: A Rekindling of Memories and Friendships

Ah, the wonders of social media!  If you haven’t gotten yourself onto Facebook, or linked in through Linked In, you’re well behind the times, ma’am.
I have to admit: I was fairly skeptical about the whole social networking craze when my oh-so techy husband (I say this with affection and admiration) started prompting me to create [...]

Re-cap of the 2009 Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop: My Favorite Quotes of the Week

Okay folks, as promised, here’s a little more for you on the Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop ~ namely, my favorite lines, quotes and anecdotes (written in Workshop schedule chronological order only–no favoritism is represented here).
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*  ”The lover is the writer, the reader is the beloved.” – Brenda Shaughnessy, poet
* ‘The essence of the [...]