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BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERESTUDIO: Lionsgate Home EntertainmentMSRP: $49.98RATED: UnratedRUNNING TIME: 611 Minutes SPECIAL FEATURES: Audio Commentaries on each episode Medgar Evers: An Unsung Hero Clearing the Air: The History of Cigarette Advertising We… Continue reading
On Sunday afternoon, I saw something on my five-mile run that angered me enough to write here about it. I was two miles into my run on the Greenway, a near 100 mile, 8 foot wide trail built all through Northern Georgia in pieces over the last fifteen years.… Continue reading
The lollipop has officially become a fashion accessory, marketed as such by upscale candy company Sugar Factory. By purchasing their Couture Pops, now girls and young women who adore female icons such as Britney Spears, Kim Kardashian, and the Pussycat Dolls… Continue reading
BUY SEASON 11 AT AMAZON: CLICK HERESTUDIO: BBC WarnerMSRP: $29.98RATED: UnratedRUNNING TIME: 364 Minutes NUMBER OF DISCS: 2ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: January 12, 2010SPECIAL FEATURES: None. You must find happiness on two discs and in six episodes alone. Isn't… Continue reading
In 1999, I began running for the first time in my life. I'd walk to the gym with Caroline early in the mornings, tennis shoes crunching on ice and frost-covered grass across the campus of the conservative baptist college I attended. I didn't know much about… Continue reading
I purchased a smartphone, an iPhone 3G last summer, and have since bonded with the device. I am surprised. I was one of the last people I knew to get a cell phone. I waited until I graduated from college in 2004, years after cell phones were in common use, to… Continue reading
My first engineering project was a design for a cart made of wood that I planned to build and then pedal fast and proud up and down my neighborhood street. I'd sit close to the ground at the height of the wheels, legs jutted out in front of me, pedaling at… Continue reading
Andrea thought it was goddamn. Continue reading
The first love note I delivered was in 1986, carefully written on miniature Hello Kitty stationary. The piece of light pink paper measured maybe two inches tall by one inch wide with rows of miniscule dots that made it ruled paper suitable for writing. It… Continue reading
Fact: the older I get, the more years I run out of, and the less possibilities to accomplish great things exist for me. Certain paths in life are now blocked. Or compromised. It doesn't suck! It's just part of life. I'm realizing that the luxury of dreaming… Continue reading
Apparently, I'm a woman. I'm at odds with this most of the time, not because being a woman is a bad thing, but more because I hate gender roles and gender marketing. I also am put off when people see a good trait in me and attribute that to my sex. I got that… Continue reading
I think something good happened last week. Something happened that made things make sense. Two women from my past–a baker and an artist finally connected on the same plane in me, and it needed to happen. They never met each other and their memories belong to… Continue reading
