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6 Easy Ways to Style Your Outdoor Living Areas
6 Easy Ways to Style Your Outdoor Living Areas We focus a lot on our homes and interiors. Every holiday season we give them a spruce-up, bring in new elements, and decorate them to the best of our ability and imagination. We do keep our porches, patios, front yards,...
Especially When it Rains
Especially When it Rains Today a mother buried her teenage son in suburban St. Louis - after three autopsies, a city rocked with anger and protests and a country faced with its own deeply divided past and present. She has waited for 16 long and agonizing days to give...
From Mississippi Burning to Missouri Burning
From Mississippi Burning to Missouri Burning Author’s note: This story is breaking from minute to minute. What I started out to write is turning into something completely different. I apologize if this seems somewhat rambling. It was just four short months ago that...
Find a Missing Pet – Can an Animal Communicator Help?
Find a Missing Pet - Can an Animal Communicator Help? Miracles do happen. My friend Keddy Outlaw's cat named Abigail went missing from her home in Houston, TX seven weeks ago. Many of us have shared Keddy's worry. If you've ever had a pet disappear who's a member of...
Anti Aging Secrets – Exercise Tips
Anti Aging Secrets - Exercise Tips As we get older, we start to slow down a bit and our bodies don't work as well as they did when we were young. Our face however is where the effects of aging are most noticeable. Wrinkles and sag show our age as the force of gravity...
Five Cheap Tricks to Freshen up Your Home
Five Cheap Tricks to Freshen up Your Home With Summer now just a precious few weeks away, it is perhaps time to start looking at ways to embrace what is left of Spring and freshen up the home for a brand new season. But if you happen to be on a budget, where is the...
The Opinionated Bitch – The Swiftboating of An American Prisoner of War
The Swiftboating of An American Prisoner of War In 2004, Secretary of State John Kerry was a candidate for President of the United States. A group calling themselves Swift Vets and POWs for Truth waged a now discredited vicious campaign against then candidate Kerry to...
Clearing the Mind Clutter
Clearing the Mind Clutter Mind clutter is overwhelming. I’m just arriving back from a Conference with over 500 Entrepreneurs in my industry. I have to say that I was a bit nervous…thinking about how that many “organizers” would act in one place. (Of course, I was...
The Opinionated Bitch – Dear Maya:
Dear Maya: My soul is filled with a sadness I have only known since the death of one of my closest friends. Meeting you was on my bucket list, but it was not to be. I did not know you personally and yet, and yet… At the tender and decades ago age of 23, I was browsing...
Please Stop Texting while Driving
Please Stop Texting while Driving Our teenage society has adapted toward keeping in touch with their friends by texting. While technology has advanced in a positive direction its side effects has taken many young lives away. One second of texting has led to accidents...
The Opinionated Bitch – Dear Monica Lewinsky
The Opinionated Bitch - Dear Monica Lewinsky Dear Monica, Hi. Carol Baker here, also known as “The Opinionated Bitch”. Don’t be put off by the nickname. It’s just what people call me because I have a tendency to calls ‘em like I sees ‘em. I’d like to talk to you about...
Don’t Walk in My Shoes
Don't Walk in My Shoes When a person goes ahead and finds something wrong with your thinking and chooses to judge you, do you feel as though they have not been in your position and look down at you? They are overstepping their bounds. Don’t walk in my shoes. It is...
National Home Improvement Month
National Home Improvement Month - What should you Spend your money on? May is National Home Improvement month. But, if you're like the average homeowner, it's hard to decide exactly which of the many home improvements you should invest in. Read the list below to find...
Waiting for Life to Begin. Again.
Waiting for Life to Begin. Again. Once I was 14, and I thought the world was over right when it was supposed to begin. I had held out for three years, waiting for help that never came. And then I gave up. I started sleeping with the light on. I stopped sleeping. I...
Let My Puppies Go
Let My Puppies Go Most of us were at least in diapers in the 60’s when women in great numbers started to roar. The night skies were alight with bonfires burning…what else—their bras? But not me. I had waited way too long to sprout enough to need a bra—how could I...
What Feminist Theater Means to Me
What Feminist Theater Means to Me Let me first start by introducing myself to those who don’t know me and stumbled upon this on accident. My name is Reesa. And I am an unabashed feminist. Some of you will stop reading or role their eyes at that, and that’s fine,...
