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Natalie

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About Me


Hi. I'm a big liberal, vegetarian environmentalist. I cook a lot. That's all.
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” - Benjamin Franklin
"By walking the path, we make the path visible."
"Leap, and the net will appear."
"A man who knows that enough is enough will always have enough." --Tao te Ching
"The trouble with humans is that even the smallest changes in our behavior require an epiphany." - NYT op-ed piece
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." —Albert Einstein
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Meade
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government." --Thomas Jefferson
"What is the good of having a nice house without a decent planet to put it on?" -- Henry David Thoreau
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." -- Edmund Burke
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. - Walter Anderson
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -Douglas Adams
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. - Karl Marx
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying. - Unknown
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! --Charles Dickens
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. --unknown
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My Interests

Joshua.

DARE TO...
Ask for you what you want.
Believe in yourself.
Change your mind.
Do what you love.
Enjoy each & every day.
Follow your heart's desire.
Give more than you receive.
Have a sense of humor.
Insist on being yourself.
Join in more.
Kiss and make-up.
Love and be loved.
Make new friends.
Nurture your spirit.
Overcome adversity.
Play more.
Question conformity.
Reach for the stars.
Speak your truth.
Take personal responsibility.
Understand more, judge less.
Volunteer your time.
Walk through fear.
X-perience the moment.
Yearn for grace.
be Zany.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

--Marianne Williamson

Movies:

It's a Wonderful Life will always be my favorite movie. Others that delight me are: A Life Less Ordinary, Life or Something Like It, The Big Lebowski, Freeway, When Harry Met Sally, West Side Story.

Heroes:

Edward R. Murrow, Hank Greenspun, Robert Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Emily Dickinson, Bob Hunter. My sister, who sometimes makes me wonder how it's possible that I'M the older sister.

My Blog

How Ironic.

I'm posting portions of three articles, two from San Francisco Chronicle columnist David Lazarus and one from The Post-Standard columnist Jeff Kramer, about how bloggers are biting the hand that feeds...
Posted by Natalie on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:43:00 PST

A votre sante!

Do yourself a favor. Curl up with a cup of green tea/glass of water and a carrot that you peeled and sliced yourself and read this article from the New York Times. Unlike most things I post about nutr...
Posted by Natalie on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:51:00 PST

This is funny! Um, I think...

http://www.noveal.org/forgetaboutit/
Posted by Natalie on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:28:00 PST

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http://www.isoprophlex.com/pages/popup/snl_tattoo.php
Posted by Natalie on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 03:09:00 PST

Introduction to Socially Driven Political News from digg.com

August 20, 2006 at 3:43 amThe political categories of socially driven news sites are unlike any others. Submitters are treated differently than they are in other categories. Stories and commenters are...
Posted by Natalie on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:28:00 PST

One year as a reporter

I wrote this the night of my one year anniversary at Greenspun Media Group.I didn't have time to revise it or anything, so this is how it stands...I always knew I wanted to be a writer. Since I was 8 ...
Posted by Natalie on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:34:00 PST

Special K

Theres this Special K commercial where this woman in a red dress walks up to a table of three of her friends, sits down and orders Special K with berries and says the meal is only 250 calories.Then th...
Posted by Natalie on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:00:00 PST

Lists, Liftings and Listlessness

Lifted from www.lasvegassun.comGorman fires gay teacherInstructor revealed preference on Web siteBy Emily Richmond and Christina LittlefieldLas Vegas SunAs a Bishop Gorman High School teacher for six ...
Posted by Natalie on Wed, 24 May 2006 01:15:00 PST

What kind of wood doesn't float?

NATALIE Wood!Ha ha ha ha ha...I just thought I would blog about my namesake for a sec. Natalie Wood.My mom really liked her as an actress. I was born with dark brown straight hair - lots of it - so sh...
Posted by Natalie on Fri, 05 May 2006 10:05:00 PST

Inquiring minds want to know.

Well, not really. But if you're curious, you can pick through this extensive list."101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian"1 9 9 8 - E D I T I O NBy Pamela Rice(And it's not all emotive pleas for the humane ...
Posted by Natalie on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:55:00 PST