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Who's On Your Fridge? On Your Desk? In Your Heart?

I was standing in my parents' kitchen eating cereal and staring into space, as I do, when my eyes landed on the refrigerator - and more specifically, the pictures on it. And the magnets, and the invitations, and the um, business card for a particular ...

From LAURIEWRITES, BlogHer,  14 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Red Hot Chili Peppers (musician)

Violence UnSilenced - Maggie Dammit Talks about Domestic Violence and How We Can Help

Since that is not so, I wanted to take the opportunity to share the work of Maggie Dammit of Okay, Fine, Dammit, and Violence Unsilenced, a site with the goal of "shedding light on the epidemic of domestic violence and sexual assault by giving its ...

From LAURIEWRITES, BlogHer,  31 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc

The Impossible Polaroid Returns

The Impossible Project - formed to "re-invent and re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras" - may have accomplished just that. How do they plan to do this? Um, honestly, I have no idea, beyond their stated plan to make a ...

From LAURIEWRITES, BlogHer,  16 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Flickr

Food and Family: What They Made for You - Making It Your Own

My grandfather made the best chocolate chip cookies I've ever had. I am a cookie freak in a family of cookie freaks and they are my seminal cookie, the cookie to dominate all other undeserving cookies in the world. I can still see them stacked in ...

From LAURIEWRITES, BlogHer,  7 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Co-Workers: family, friends, foes or no?

And chances are, whatever our place of business, we will not be alone when we get there, like it or not. Wherever you work, whatever you do, more often than not you do it with other people.  I very rarely write about my job because I like it and I ...

From LAURIEWRITES, BlogHer,  8 Sep 2009

Photos Out of Focus: Embracing Bokeh and Blur

When I first started shooting photos I believed in the ultimate power of sharpness, of acuity, of an image unblurred. It's only over time that I learned to embrace what I now believe to be the beauty of softness, of what some might call imperfection in ...

From LAURIEWRITES, BlogHer,  4 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Flickr

No Kids: What Am I Missing?

r. I'm a Twitter converser, no rage included on a regular basis.) She has unnamed, unspecified commenters on her blog who prefer to be called "childfree" and not "childless" who "corrected" her (quotes not mine) related to the use of these terms. And ...

From LAURIEWRITES, BlogHer,  28 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  John Edwards,  Michael Jackson,  Peter Griffin,  Tommy Lee

Blanket and Beyond: What's Your Nickname?

My given name is Laurie (rhymes with "sorry", technically) to most people, much to the horror of the priest who baptized me and my third grade teacher Sister Patricia because although I was not named after a Partridge Family character it's still not a ...

From LAURIEWRITES, BlogHer,  22 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Michael Jackson

Your Child, My Life, Our Family - at the Beach and Everywhere

"Laurie, why did God put all that water out there?" She spread her three-year-old arms out wide to the ocean, with which she was precariously making friends, running down and teetering on the edge of the water til the baby waves splashed over her feet, ...

From LAURIEWRITES, BlogHer,  13 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Clint Eastwood,  Blondie

Tattoed You at BlogHer 09

I got my first tattoo when I was 25, and I still love it. 25 was a very different place and time, which meant an ex-boyfriend designed it and I got it in a small shop outside of Dayton, Ohio, from a very large man named Jimbo. I chose the design ...

From LAURIEWRITES, BlogHer,  1 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Spike TV

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