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Quality Ingredients

2008-07-25T03:29:05Z

I feel very fortunate that my mother prepared almost every meal I ate growing up. Influenced heavily by legacy of the house-wife generation, my mother managed to learn early on in her life how to be a good mother and cook, and perfected the ...

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Good Mail

2008-07-24T02:30:37Z

Things of late have been a bit off for the Michel household. Rent was raised, Chris was just barely eligible for financial aid (because, in somebody's skewed world, I make too much money,) and we've been spilling an unbelievable amount of so...

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This morning had been a nightmare.

2008-07-23T17:27:48Z

I got off on the wrong foot. This morning I woke up from a terrible dream. I was at work, but the location was the hospital I used to work for. It was dark and mysterious. I was somehow simultaneously a student, surrounded by faces f...

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These short two days.

2008-07-21T03:47:02Z

We awoke this morning to find that it was raining in Fresno. If you could call it rain. A gentle drizzle fell to the earth, ceasing shortly after it began, and left the air smelling damp and raw. I went out into the gray morning to fetch a...

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Vox Hunt: What I'm Reading

2008-07-20T17:57:07Z

Show us the book you're reading right now. Submitted by Strive2Be. I know that this is "young adult" literature, but I was looking for an easy, captivating read, and I found it. After so many years reading heavy, serious literature, and ...

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How Self-Indulgence has Made Me a Victim and Not a Successful Writer: A Narrative

2008-07-18T06:48:10Z

"Self-pity is a psychological state of mind of an individual in perceived adverse situations who has not accepted the situation and does not have the confidence nor ability to cope with it. It is characterized by a person's belief that he or she ...

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Music QotW: Music Video Story

2008-07-16T15:25:30Z

Show us a music video that tells a great story. Submitted by notreallylois.

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QotD: Mind Your Blogging Manners!

2008-07-15T16:37:14Z

What do you think is good blog etiquette and what do you want from your readers? Submitted by April. oo00OOPlz dOnT TyPe l!Ke ThIS CuZ iT ISnT kEwL. This just shows me that you are an iD!0t. Let us honor the guidlines set before us for effecti...

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QotD: It's Monday Already?

2008-07-14T16:30:24Z

What was the best thing about your weekend? She sat across from me, her strong legs propped on a wire chair stolen from the next table over, grinning from under her outrageously over-sized sunglasses. It was smoulding hot, and sweat trickled ...

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Chardonnay: two weeks uncorked.

2008-07-13T06:05:44Z

My eyebrow is twitching. When I was a senior in high school, my right eyelid twitched every day for three months straight. I even went to the doctor to see about it. No answers were given. That eyelid starts up again here and there, lasting da...

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