Archive for the 'life' Category

Eivissa

  By A.J. Llewellyn I had a visit recently from my cousin whose husband John vanished 14 years ago, It was a heart-breaking, tragic case and it has often haunted me. When his skeletal remains were discovered a year after his disappearance deep in the Australian bush, I went to visit the site and to […]

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Crazy Business

Crazy love. We’ve all experienced it…I think. I’ve mentioned before I’ve experienced my own demented moments in love…but how about a crazy friendship? And how about crazy business? Have you ever done anything utterly crazy in a friendship or in the course of conducting business? I don’t know about you about I’ve had my fair […]

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Do Cry For Me, Argentina

My beautiful niece and goddaughter, Eleanna, came to spend the night with me last night after telling me she needed bonding time. At the age of 14, I reckon her parents and I are lucky she still wants to hang out with us. I takes it while I can still gets it. I have an […]

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Wordscraper

Wordscraper Current mood:  cooky/wacky Category: Games   I’ve fallen in love. Thanks to my awesome pal Jackie Kallen, the First Lady of Boxing, I’ve discovered the awesome joys of Wordscraper, a Scrabble-style game played on Facebook. I had no idea the game existed but it’s one of the many applications available on the social networking site […]

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Stolen Memories

Current mood:  bouncy Category: Life My love for Hawaii is no secret to anyone who has ever read my books. My passion encompasses the island’s myths, its spiritual history and its monarchy, of which I feel fiercely protective. So it came as a shock today when I saw an item on Ebay claiming to be the […]

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Will Work For…Saucepans

Current mood:  amused Category: Jobs, Work, Careers So with the economic slump still in force (no matter what the TV pundits claim) I took a catering job this week and found it was grueling but fun work. I am a food whore so this was also a side benefit, free eats. I was amazed at the […]

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Love, Life & Bubblebath

Current mood:  blissful Category: Life It’s my turn to blog at The Many Shades of Life and Love and here is what I posted… I have so much to be thankful for this year and I am kinda excited it’s my turn at the wheel here at The Many Shades of Life and Love on this […]

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Dancer

Current mood:  blissful Category: Life   I had a wonderful experience Sunday that I feel has forever changed me. I am a Buddhist and my west valley division of the SGI International branch of Buddhism is the first to create an Art Department. Sunday was our first big meeting and I was overwhelmed that so many […]

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Tragic Legacy of “The Secret”

Like a lot of people who move to sunny California, I became swept up in the New Age craze the second my feet hit the ground at LAX. In 1984, when I arrived to attend school, I was consumed with anything and everything American. My dad’s girlfriend at the time followed a guru who claimed […]

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Things That Won’t Die: Chain Letters

It’s happened to all of us. You hear from somebody out of the blue…they’ve reached back to the future and send you an email. You smile, open it and scan down and it’s another friggin’ chain letter. You know the ones. They have a vaguely uplifting message about self-worth. Often there’s a mention of candles, […]

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