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veronica-rhodes's picture
Jul.06.2011
 I think it was the dance recital portrait offer that put me over the edge. For a mere $70, a photographer would take a picture of my 5-year-old in her tap costume, providing makeup and styling services along with the snap of the shutter. Total number of prints included in the package: zero....
dale-estey's picture
Jan.15.2009
There are few constant rules to writing which apply to everyone. But there are some. One is to realize that what you are doing (and may have been doing for years and with which you are very comfortable) is no longer working. It is difficult to alter a comfortable routine of long-standing, but, if...
robert-sward's picture
Aug.13.2008
“It takes several lives to make one person.” I believe that and that we are also, all of us, phoenixes rising, or so it seems, from the ashes of our old selves. The rise and fall of the phoenix. Phoenix. Pheonix. Phoenix. “The soul is a vast domain," wrote Arthur Schnitzler. "So many...