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Life List #57: Wear Real Red Lipstick
“Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.” ~Gwyneth Paltrow In college I had a professor tell me that I have a presence about me. Something that I give off that forces people to pay attention to me. As such I have spent years hiding in [...]
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Southwest New York Needs Some Love
“Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!” ~Don A. Dillman On a trip to the Southern Tier of New York I had a lot of time [...]
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Sub-par Housekeeping
“Things do not change; we change.” ~Henry David Thoreau 1) Charity:Water winner: To those of you who participated in my Camp Mighty fundraising efforts I truly appreciated it. As I have already written but would gladly recap: the weekend was magical and every few minutes I’d exclaim how happy I was. Genuinely. Thoroughly. Truly. The [...]
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Camp Mighty: Taking the Bull by the Horns
Photo by Holly Burns “Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.” ~Adolph Monod I should warn you that it’s about to get contrived and cliche up in here. Saying that will not make the following any less true but [...]
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That’s What Friends Are For