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Nov.11.2009
Before I begin this article I am going to tell you I don't know if I am for or against the death penalty. I really don't. When I am reading about heinous crimes people commit and what it does to the families of the victims you will hear me screaming, "Kill him! He must die for his crime!...
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Sep.13.2009
I was just watching the movie a Knights Tale, since this year Mark and I didn't order the NFL package with Direct TV, too pricey in this economy with five kids, and I just could not get into the 49er/Cardinal game. So to bide my time before the Packers and Bears @ 5:15 PST I decided to watch Heath...
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Sep.08.2009
Fall is my favorite time of the year! The leaves start changing from a dark or even neon green to my favorite colors....different shades of orange, red, and yellow. The air in the mornings and evenings is crisp and refreshing. As a child, I used to love the smell of burning leaves permeating...
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Sep.05.2009
I will be forty in less than six months and do not feel like I am approaching my fourth decade on planet earth. No, I feel at times, like I am still in my twenties. My workouts are still hard, sweaty, and fastidious, I still dance like I am in college, I enjoy nature like an eight year old, I love...
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Aug.30.2009
I have had to do some serious reflecting on mistakes I have made and some of my relationships that I have. I have realized the more I think about the mistakes that I have made and the wrong turns in life the guilt starts to eat away at my stomach first and eventually works its way up to my heart....
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Aug.12.2009
Do you believe in unconditional love? You know, the kind of love that can with stand any sort of treason or atrocity committed against you by the one you supposedly love unconditionally. I used to believe in unconditional love, but not anymore. I believe it exists, but I also believe it is a love...
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Aug.11.2009
Everyday we are met with choices. Choices are not always easy, nor are they supposed to be. As children we start out with having to choose the outfit we want to wear to school, and move on to having to choose our friends. From there we have to choose whether or not to cave into peer pressure and do...
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Aug.07.2009
Lets start today with suspended Cleveland Brown wide receiver Donte Stallworth. Stallworth is momentarily, notice the choice of word, momentarily, suspended from the NFL for killing Mario Reyes. Stallworth was convicted of drunk driving in Miami. He was convicted of drunk driving, not murder or...
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Aug.04.2009
So lets see, the economy is tanking, people are losing their homes, can't buy food, the homeless rate is going up, the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, the middle class is being wiped out, BUT President Obama made his debut on Vanity Fair's Best-Dressed List. Lets not forget...
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Aug.02.2009
Heather I have recently been talking to my girlfriends about sex and marriage. Maybe it is because I have been booked on a radio show for February 10 talking about my new book on how to save your marriage, and that book has been on the forefront of my mind a lot.Before you continue reading,...
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Jul.30.2009
Imagine this scene in your head; A man in one hospital bed is brain dead from a motorcycle accident. The family is gathered around this man. His wife is holding his hand begging him to come back, while his son is craddled in his mother's arm rubbing his eyes while tears stream down his face. The...
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Jul.29.2009
Everytime I go home, and yes, even though I have not lived in the Chicago area for eighteen years, I still call Chicago home, two things happen, I either want to get the hell out of there as fast as I can or I realize why I still call it home. Oh, one more thing happens, I eat like a ravenous pig...
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Jul.23.2009
I found my dead mother's best friend on facebook today. I was not expecting to see her. But boy am I glad I did! Her smile and her age made me realize that my mother would have looked very similar if she had lived.You see I only have pictures of my mother at the age of twenty six. My mother will...
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Jul.22.2009
I know a person very well that worries and gets angry about absolutely the most trivial things in life. Every time this person gets worked up over nothing I always say to myself, "Why do you waste so much energy worrying about nothing?" Usually they get upset about what might happen. By the time...
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Jul.20.2009
It is two am and I can't sleep. This is very unlike me. I am what you call a deep sleeper, and need at least a solid eight hours of sleep in order for me to make it through a day without needing a nap.I don't know why! I have always been this way. I am not good before 7am, and not even before 8am...
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About Heather
I was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1970. My life was mostly spent with my older sister going from one aunt's house to the next, and one grandmother's house to the next. My mother was killed in a car accident when I was three, my sister was seven, and...
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Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
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