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The trouble with immigration.

America is a land of immigrants. From the English, and French, Dutch, Russian and African, every American has an immigration story. For some of us the story is the unknown story of an unnamed ancestor and...

2 comments    politics america legal
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On your birthday

On your birthday, dance Sing hallelujah's in the rain on your birthday, run! ignore those things which can be on your birthday, praise those folk who raised you on your birthday, rest 'cause on...

0 comments    love happiness dancing
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Longed for, Glorious

Longed for, Glorious We all prayed one million prayersTo the Lord we knew was thereand we all cried one million tearswe didn't know that you were near Longed For, Glorious Our human hearts were achingHis...

0 comments    children god babies
A sculpture of Duclinea in Madrid Spain.70

Whoring Around - Exploring the epidemic of transforming literary Heroines into whores

A sculpture of Duclinea in Madrid Spain. "To dream the impossible dream; to fight the unbeatable foe; to bear with unbearable sorrow; to run where the brave dare not go" (From Man of La Mancha 1972 music by...

4 comments    christ commentary tale
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My Soy Love Story

My daughter is allergic to milk. No, she's not lactose intolerant, I wish to the good Lord she were, my life would be much easier. My darling, funny faced, curly haired baby, is allergic to milk protien and...

2 comments    health food cheese
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Rememberance

Daddy, there's a time a place when I see your face  and I remember all the times I sneered or laughed for all that you'd done wrong A childish thing, a silly thing, A thing I can not recall...

2 comments    life family rememberance
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Taming Romeo

"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?Deny thy father and refuse thy name.Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my loveAnd I'll no longer be a Capulet."- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2.2 The...

0 comments    paris shakespeare truly
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Some of us can't breastfeed

Breastfeeding, is beautiful, special and the only thing the world that only mother's can do for their children. It also seems to be one of the great feminine debates. We as women seem unable to agree on much...

2 comments    children women god
That's a shoe!63

I can deal with anything, If I have the right shoes

I have had a life long love affair with shoes. Put me in a potato sack with mile high red stillettos and I'm good to go. It's not something I can control or understand it is an obsession. Pink ones, red...

4 comments    life beauty shoes
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Living with Grief

I remember very little from my grandfather's funeral. Mostly the silence and the tears. I remember sitting on my grand mother's lap and asking her if it was alright if I cried now. I seem to have been asking...

2 comments    god faith jesus
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