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14 May, 2013going gangsta
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I've been wallowing.You ever find yourself wallowing? Those days when you're totally unproductive, and can't seem to get motivated, for no real reason? To be completely honest, I've been like this for weeks. I'm not proud of it, ...
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8 May, 2013
why i'm wildly convinced you're uncommonly beautiful: you find what you look for
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When I redesigned my site over a year ago, I decided to add a tagline. As it happens, "Wildly Convinced You're Uncommonly Beautiful" was an easy one to pick: having written a book about beauty and photographed hundreds of people, the ...
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8 May, 2013
you find what you look for
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When I redesigned my site over a year ago, I decided to add a tagline. As it happens, "Wildly Convinced You're Uncommonly Beautiful" was an easy one to pick: having written a book about beauty and photographed hundreds of people, the ...
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29 Apr, 2013
man, i love food (and a giveaway)
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Remember about a month ago I visited a goat farm?Toward the end of the tour, Lisa, one of the owners of the farm, confided in me: "You know," she said, "occasionally we have small events here at the farm -- and we have one coming up. Benjy ...
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16 Apr, 2013
you are more beautiful than you think
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I spent most of Monday afternoon avoiding the media and any media images of the bombings at the Boston Marathon this week, because truly, how much more can we absorb? When I finally clicked on CNN.com and look at the images and read the ...
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2 Apr, 2013
camp hope, a little love, and a summer-reading-for-summer-camp giveaway
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For a little over 10 years, I've been involved with AIDS Foundation Houston, an organization here in town that does everything it can to support people who are infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS, including providing housing to nutritional food ...
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25 Mar, 2013
weird, creepy and entirely awesome: brooke shaden photography
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There's a saying in my homeland of Trinidad -- "to ketch a vaps" -- that I can't help thinking about after this past weekend. The closest way I can describe what the phrase means is to equate it to when Americans say they "got a wild hare" ...
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12 Mar, 2013
life is insane with lots of awesome
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It's spring break right now for everyone in my house but me. Alex is off of school, and even Marcus took time off of work, but I have currently entered the busiest part of my year thus far, and have been working furiously.No worries, it's all ...
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5 Mar, 2013
stash (or, how i began writing my second book)
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Cheryl Schulke of Stash.Last week, I began writing my second book in earnest. (It's a weird thing, beginning to write a second book. In some ways, it feels far more difficult than writing a first book. With a first book, you have the ...
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28 Feb, 2013
other places i've been (around the web)
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Popping in quickly just to say that it hasn't been all wine and roses ... er, mustard ... around here: I've been really busy other places as well:"There's really no purpose to having gifts unless you're willing to give them away." Over at ...
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28 Jan, 2013
altitude design summit 2013: the thing about going to conferences
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So, I'm back from my third Altitude Design Summit, and I can unequivocally say that it was my very favourite one. It was great for the usual reasons: the venue was, as always, incredible; the speakers were friendly and informative, and the ...
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18 Jan, 2013
i'm here! i'm here!
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Darlings! Did you think I'd died? Moved? Quit blogging?I assure you I'm still here, and I'm healthy (for now -- what is WITH this flu season, amiright?). I've just been completely buried in work -- but it's all good, because it's all work I ...
