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Sometimes, blog topics are just dropped into my lap, begging to be written about. That was exactly the case with this one. Because I am a Mary Kay consultant, I get e-mails from the company about various promotions that they are doing. Yesterday, I got an e-mail about the launch of a campaign called "Beauty That Counts."  Read More »

Note: Posted this because I read scraps of former sanity's blog, This, though, has almost nothing to do with Abraham Lincoln, but everything to do with slavery. Also, this was for class, it might be a bit obvious but there is a paper that I am referencing and critiquing. You need not have read the paper.  Read More »

I see a lot of people ask about the Christmas traditions we recognize in modern society. Generally, they're pretty sarcastic, in a way that implies they don't really know the origin, so it seems like an arbitrary and ridiculous thing to them. Generally, it's something along the lines of "how did the birth of Jesus turn into a fat man flying around, dropping down chimneys and giving kids toys?"

The short answer: it didn't.  Read More »

Every year during the holidays, my family makes a point of adopting an elderly person and a child. Even during those years when we struggled, we kept up that tradition because we knew that no matter how bad off we thought we were, there were others in worse circumstances.  Read More »

I have been volunteering on ProgressiveU for about a year and a half now, and have been a member well over 2 years. I started in the competition just like the rest of you, but stayed due to the great ideas I found here. I've made some wonderful friends over the past couple years on the site, many of whom I would like to remain friends with for life.  Read More »

As a little girl, the "Find Waldo" series was one of my favorites. The idea of a man that could be lost so many times - in so many places - and that he needed me to find him both fascinated and intrigued me. No visit to the doctor's office or the dentist's office was complete until I found him on every page of every book.  Read More »

Now that the contest is over, and I have crossed the line from "scholarly" blogging to "confessional" blogging, I feel that the pressure is off. I spent the last 8 weeks blogging about religion. I said at the beginning of that project that I believe that religion and sexuality are *the* two most driving forces of human behavior.  Read More »

For as long as I can remember, my younger sister and I have been nearly inseparable. When she was little, she beat me with num-chucks, peed on me, stood on her head when sent to the corner and was otherwise a pain in the ass. But, even when she was annoying me, I thought having a little sister was the greatest.  Read More »

I was reading a blog entry on the Beacon Broadside page in which the blogger explains why he's writing a book, despite the fact that the people the book would be aimed towards probably wouldn't read it, or wouldn't agree with it if they did.  Read More »

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