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Jan.05.2012
About three weeks ago, I went to my hairdresser and showed a couple of magazine photos. "Cut it all off," I declared, leaning back in the vinyl-covered seat. "I need a change." And so she did!
A new hairstyle -- or, when I was younger, hair color -- is one way in which I find...
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Nov.18.2011
Is it ridiculous to live for love? The interwoven strands of living beings’ love for one another raises the possibility that maybe the purpose of life is to love. L’histoire d’amour is undoubtedly one of Willa Cather’s “two or three human stories” that repeats itself “as fiercely...
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Sep.16.2011
If sex can keep us alive, then when are researchers going to produce a female enhancement drug? And when can we expect to see commercials on T.V., as pithy and farcical as what's out there for male audiences?
If sex can keep us alive, then Jim Carrey was in a win-win situation for "...
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Jun.22.2011
This isn't a book, but I'm partially to the short lit forms (my impatience with scenery and nuance details -- get to the point).
Everytime I read Dorothy Allison's story I am so emotionally drawn into the agony of the unnamed protagonist. Her lover, Jesse, is a contrast to the violence of the...
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Jun.21.2011
My children, young and complaining, made the hike up into Lamoille Canyon today, through the campground. All the way up and all the way down. We were stunned by the powerful mountain water rushing over falls and then curving, like an Action Park waterslide downward (for those Jerseyphiles who...
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Apr.22.2011
"Ma'm," youth said."Yes?" I replied.Youth asked steadily, "Ma'm, how do you sell your soul to the devil?"I stopped looking at paper on my desk and found him slumped in his desk, wide-eyed.I said, "You just do."I thought a bit more and continued, "You...
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Mar.04.2011
London was not my idea, but the inception of my friend and once-roomate in college. Roz was going to England after graduation, to work and live for six months; she begged me to go, because I don't think any of her other friends would. I didn't have any pressing plans besides, only to eventually...
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Jan.13.2011
I though about this and decided my favorite non-profit is public education.
To enrich someone's knowledge is a giving act. To open up oneself to the knowledge of another is heroic. It's easier to stay in a comfort zone in which one controls all the information coming and going, rather than to...
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Dec.27.2010
Thirty-seven seems old, to me. Then again, I felt old when I was twelve, as well. Other than the giddy buzz of champagne and incense, that fueled my Christmas eve, another one of Christ's birthdays has passed without my feeling moved. I've been waiting patiently.
In this week before another year...
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Dec.09.2010
For the Thanksgiving holiday, I took my children and my husband back East. For months leading up to the journey, I swooned to my son and daughter about riding the big airplane and flying into Newark airport. "You'll be able to see New York City," I gushed. I tried to convince my...
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Nov.28.2010
With Turkey Day behind me -- the food, the football, the family and friends -- I can look forward to the days of decoration. In the simplest sense, snow tickles the fields and roads (in my case, that pesky snow is more than a mere giggle on I-80...).
My ears ring with Hope and Lennon. I'm...
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Nov.11.2010
There are times when a person should listen instead of speak. In the world that we live, everyone is always talking. I wonder if anyone even listens anymore. I like to think of myself as someone who listens.
There are definitely times when a person should speak! Throughout the history of the...
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Nov.05.2010
When I met my husband, when he was just a handsome man to whom I was yet to be engaged; the first thing I felt was love. It is important for me to classify this kind of love over other loves which I have felt over the years. This love is warm and wonderful and reminds me why I stay alive each...
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Nov.01.2010
I am slow to evolve‚ although I consider myself progressive. Tooling through the Northern Nevada desert, I am riding an anxiety highway that ebbs and pulls off like the tide. Two weeks ago I worked an entire day at a job I love (loved?); at 4pm, I was fired. Sure people lose jobs all of the...
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Oct.23.2010
I was 17 and I was competing in the District XI championship gymnastic meet. Although I was a tumbly-bouncy type of person, the sport of gymnastics took much more nerve than I had in me at the time. The vault was my favorite piece of equipment and I'd fling myself toward that thing without a fear...
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"beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I'll meet you there." Rumi”
About Carin
I have a few passions: reading, film, music, photography, romance, dance, writing, and nature. I am a career mother, wife, and educator. Currently I work for the State of Nevada, as a teacher; this could mean a research project on the...
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Carin’s Favorite Books
The Great Gatsby, The Awakening, The Alchemist, Almanac of the Dead, Cloud 8, Tsugumi, Rule the Bone, Nightwood, The Princes of Ireland, The Metamorphosis, Go...