Bereaved and Blessed

What Do Women Need?

July 11, 2012

“Women need food, water and compliments. That’s right. And an occasional pair of shoes. ” ~ Chris Rock ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is Day 11 of NaBloPoMo for July and I am finally getting around to writing about one of the prompts for this month’s theme “kidding around:” Tell us about your favorite comedian. There are other prompts that […]

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Time Warp Tuesday: Fear

July 10, 2012

Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the twenty-first installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here to participate […]

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Live Theater

July 9, 2012

There’s nothing like it, at least for me. I try to get my fix a few times a year and if I could afford it would get season tickets to Steppenwolf and Broadway in Chicago. My family has had a tradition, for as long as I can remember, of going to see one show together each […]

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Another Happy Place

July 8, 2012

Awhile back I shared about some of the “places” I go when I need a vacation (sometimes physically and more often mentally). Over the past week I got to spend time with my family in a magical place in Michigan that holds many special childhood memories for my husband. We rode bikes, jet skis, speed boats, […]

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The New Exhale

July 7, 2012

It’s hard to believe that it was only a little over a year ago that I submitted my first book review for consideration for Exhale Literary Magazine‘s Spring 2011 issue and soon after volunteered to fill the open PR/Social Media position on their staff. From there I also became a contributing editor doing quarterly book reviews for […]