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About Me

BE KINDER THAN NECESSARY TO EVERYONE YOU MEET BECAUSE EVERYONE IS FIGHTING SOME KIND OF BATTLE.

Creative, slightly messy, devourer of books, love words...reading, writing, researching them.

This year I am determined to get published!

My Interests

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Words! Writing, reading, nature & the environment, PEACE, my incredibly enlightened & talented daughters, puzzles of all kinds, anarchy, learning, debunking preconceived beliefs.

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people. Writers,people I can learn from... are there any of them out there? People with original ideas; not those who merely parrot what they've been told or taught.

Music:

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Anything I can dance to! I have eclectic taste. I love the old classic rock; the Beatles,Simon & Garfunkel,Doors,Traffic; as well as folky stuff like Tim Buckley Joni Mitchell but also love Death Cab for Cutie,Non Point,Moby, Jack Johnson,Regina Spector.... I also like some classical music, Loreena McKinnett, celtic music, some blues, and some techno.

Movies:

A Beautiful Mind, Hotel Rwanda, Freedom Writers, Lord of the Rings, Sixth Sense, Finding Forrester, Girl Interrupted, Last of the Mohicans, Fracture (and anything else with Anthony Hopkins in it!),Frailty, Seven, I Am Legend, Deja Vu, The Hurricane, The Bone Collector, Men of Honour, Pay It Forward, Away From Her, The Notebook, Stand and Deliver, Gladiator, Schinlder's List.... Same eclectic taste in movies as in music

Television:

Yes, I have one. No, I don't watch it.

Books:

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* The Mermaid Chair

* The Secret Life of Bees

* The Fionavar Tapestry trilolgy

* SKEPTIC magazine

* World Treasury of Physics,Astronomy & Mathematics

* Bird By Bird

* The Demon-Haunted World, Science As A Candle In the Dark

* Anything by Alice Hoffman

Heroes:

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People who stand up for what they believe in; people who help others;people who think for themselves; my incredible daughters; my parents; my husband

My Blog

MONOGAMY WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Lately I've heard a lot of talk about monogamy and the fact that it "isn't natural". While I understand that in man's early development, propagation of the species was the reason behind the instinc...
Posted by She Who Would Prevail on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:29:00 PST

LIVING WITH HEART

We all know that our country is in a perilous state; unemployment, insanely high gas prices, an inexcusable dependence on oil and an over-dependence on credit, an unprecedented number of foreclosures ...
Posted by She Who Would Prevail on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:05:00 PST

Teacher Suspended for protecting the 1st amendment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asst3rkQbac If you haven't either read the book "Freedom Writers" or seen the movie, I have to tell you, it's incredible!When I saw this in the news today I was...
Posted by She Who Would Prevail on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:55:00 PST

PERSONAL INTEGRITY

INTEGRITY - Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motiveThe state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entire-ness; unbroken stateWhat do I value most in myself ...
Posted by She Who Would Prevail on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:27:00 PST

WHY DO PEOPLE ARGUE ABOUT RELIGION?

I began avoiding the religion vs. non-religion blogs quite a while ago when I realized that all either side wants to do is shove their personal beliefs or opinions down the other side's throat.Out of ...
Posted by She Who Would Prevail on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:04:00 PST

Phoenix - poetry

I have risen from the ruin of my lifelike a building erected on a site demolished by an earthquake....I stand tall.I have met the destruction head-onlike one whose home was devastated by a hurricane.....
Posted by She Who Would Prevail on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:59:00 PST

WHAT WEVE LOST

I grew up in a world where a person's word was enough to forge a deal; where his handshake meant something.People had values that they embraced. Their families and extended families were of the u...
Posted by She Who Would Prevail on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:16:00 PST

ITS RAINING, ITS POURING

Are we all tired of the weather now?Here in south-central Wisconsin we endured a winter with over 8 feet of snow, icy rains, and bitter-cold temperatures....Spring arrived hesitantly and bounced back ...
Posted by She Who Would Prevail on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:51:00 PST

A Gas Shortage? I Don’t Think So.

A Gas Shortage? I Don't Think So.I've been thinking about the price of gasoline and I'm curious about something....IF there is a "gas shortage" why aren't there any lines at the gas stations?Why is th...
Posted by She Who Would Prevail on Sun, 25 May 2008 06:31:00 PST

OIL EXECS MAKE EXCUSES - WHILE THE U.S. ECONOMY DETERIORATES

updated 5:58 p.m. CT, Wed., May. 21, 2008WASHINGTON - Since regular people are scrimping to pay for gasoline to go to work, Sen. Patrick Leahy wanted to make it personal for the men of Big Oil.How muc...
Posted by She Who Would Prevail on Thu, 22 May 2008 09:35:00 PST