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October 30, 2009
- Retail therapy – picking up a venti mocha frappuccino to make you feel better and ward off bad feelings – is one of the ways of buying I talk about a lot about in my book, Everything but the Coffee. In yesterday’s edition of the Daily Pennsylvanian, Arielle Kane, discusses this impulse as well. Talking about a trip to Anthropologic, she writes, “I love how it ...
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October 17, 2009
- Expat Harem has a new global niche.The Expat Harem — a concept I coined in 2004 with Jennifer Eaton Gokmen and brought to life in 2005 and 2006 in the foreign women in Turkey anthology Tales from the Expat Harem – has always been about a modern and virtual community of cultural peers.Now the (softly) relaunched ExpatHarem.com aims to bring its community to life online as a neoculture hub ...
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October 3, 2009
- Premium Gift … I found the Red Room Writers Society October 8th 2008. This month is my One Year anniversary. (Or is it First Year anniversary?) Becoming a member here has opened up a whole new world of opportunity for me. I was in the process of writing my book with no writing experience whatsoever, other than I had in High School. I was in “total bliss” when I began reading and ...
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September 26, 2009
- Have you ever walked out into a parking lot after a ball game and looked around the vastness and not been able to find your car? Or after shopping and walked the rows and been sure you left in somewhere and it was simply not there? I have. It was an absolutely horrible feeling. I had security called. I was sure someone had stolen my car. It turned out that I had simply parked on the other end of ...
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September 18, 2009
- Ron Wach has been hiking almost constantly for fifteen years--ever since he endured his third car accident while commuting to his job with a large pharmaceutical company in a big city. On that day, he was sitting still, stopped by traffic, when he was hit at 65mph by another car."That was it," he told me, leaning on his two titanium hiking poles on the Broken Arrow Trail of Northern ...
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August 28, 2009
- There seem to be phases in life when you need to go it alone to prove your independence, ponder your path, or just generally figure things out.These phases, I’ve discovered, are for the young. By the age of 30, it seems like every one of us Lone Rangers should find not only our Tonto, but an entire posse of sidekicks who will take on the black-hatted bandits that come our way. Because we ...
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August 25, 2009
- Don’t you just love a good “Aha!” moment? There’s nothing like that glorious instant of understanding when the “Huh?” becomes “Duh!”Whether it’s a fact or formula that you’ve struggled to comprehend or an emotional breakthrough that crystallized what really matters to you, the newfound clarity is welcomed—if not downright celebrated. At the age of 41, I’ve had enough of ...
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August 16, 2009
- Hurricane season evokes memories that seem as close as yesterday. I was reminded this morning by an acquaintance who sent me an email about her sister's experience sailing solo in the Bahamas in 1988. That was the year I was "Lady Ace" as I tumbled off my bunk each morning to desperately search Radio Beijing, Radio Moscow, AFRTS and any other channel I could scare up over the ...
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August 11, 2009
- I’m on vacation/in post-TED Global recovery this August. Taking social networking easy as well, I posted a chocolate cake recipe on Facebook. You can whip up the quickie soufflé-like treat in a coffee mug with the help of a microwave.The indulgent little formula emailed by my Sacramento sister comes from a world I haven’t lived in for years. Microwave cooking. White sugar and vegetable oil. ...
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July 21, 2009
- As a local poet, using Facebook is a great networking opportunity. Aside from regular use--where I can re-connect with old friends or classmates from twenty years ago, Facebook is a tool that allows the option to meet new people, promote one's work, and can be a platform or portfolio that may lead to future opportunities. For instance, not only do I look at associates' walls, but when I ...
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