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I’m boogying down over here in my corner of the world. Got the Christmas carols blaring as I wrap up all my packages and chug the eggnog. Got Vince prancing around with fake reindeer antlers on (not really, but I’d like that). And I’m busy kissing Colin under the mistletoe. Schmooch!
And I am totally celebrating [...]

what if there was no such thing as “one shot”?
if you could always find an escape route?
what if you tried it?
and succeeded beyond your wildest imagination?
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Wedding Style Magazine feature

A few posts ago Lesley tagged me to write 8 random things about myself. (sorry so late Lesley!) Here we go:
1. I have a pretty good innate sense of direction and usually know which way I’m facing at any given moment. (It’s because I see the world in kind of a map-view.) This is extremely [...]

This post is dedicated to my husband, who is completely paralyzed by has some mild anxiety about the environment — and how we are affecting it. This is a topic that, for us, has been escalating in recent years, probably because it’s so widespread and talked about now… everything is going green. And so [...]

Print Regional – Best of Show

My Sacred Life, Day 15
Self-preservation.
I am slow in learning this skill apparently. The skill of recognizing harm and then avoiding it. It seems like I am aware of things that make me feel bad, and yet I still do them for whatever reason… specifically certain blogs I read.
I don’t know if you guys do this [...]

I recently got an email from Nina asking me two questions. (I’ll tackle the second one in a later post.) But the first one was: “I am interested in learning about techniques people employ for developing better connection with color – special exercises? do you keep library?”
I thought this was a great question. And you [...]

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY[/youtube]
I thought this was brilliant. If you have 20 minutes, it’s well worth it.
Thanks, Jacqueline. :)

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