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Things that make me sad …The shallow fluff that our news has become (stupid celebrity sensationalism)...the horrible atrocities that are happening in Darfur and elsewhere in the world that so many people ignore ...crooked and conniving politicians who’s only concern is lining their pockets ...that so many people are too lazy to recycle ...seeing pain or emptiness in anyone’s eyes ...that as much as I want to save the world, I can’t do it by myself ...that some people don’t appreciate the beautiful sadness in Ryan Adams music or the way that Rumi's poetry makes you feel love drunk (they are missing out on so much) ...watching my mom grow older ...watching myself grow older ...understanding that most people don’t really know themselves ...how just when I think I know myself I realize that I’m fooling myself ...how when I'm going through something emotionally painful, instead of reaching out to my friends, I tend to withdraw and keep to myself (I'm really trying to work on that!) ...the fact that I’m far too familiar with what a breaking heart sounds like ...that I don’t get to spend enough time with the people who really get me (remember, I admitted that I'm a bit unconventional).Please visit savedarfur .org for more info on what you can do to help the situation in Darfur. 
Other great websites are one . org and moveon . org .  These websites allow average citizens to join together with
millions of others to allow their voices to be heard on important issues such as WORLD HUNGER,
THE GLOBAL AIDS EPIDEMIC, THE WAR IN IRAQ, ETC.  They only ask for you to sign petitions that are sent to
our political leaders as a call to action on these issues...My artwork!..
My adorable kids!
This is a favorite photo of mine. That's me dancing with my dad and Tristan is doing some sort of interpretive dance beside us, lol! It looks like something from Time magazine in the 60's!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People that are full of compassion, love, positive energy and the will to do something to make this world a better place.

.....and I'd like to meet these people simply because I find them interesting.

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ...universe..., a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest...a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. ---Albert Einstien
Ten rules for being human

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life".
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work".
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're "alive", that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6. "There" is no better a place than "here". When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here".
7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust. 10. You will forget all of this.

My Blog

One of my proudest moments

Like all mothers, I constantly think about the effect that I have on my children.  I worry about if I'm doing a good job as a mom.  I know that I have made so many mistakes and I always hope that my c...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:44:00 GMT

My Trip to Italy -- Day 12 & 13 -- Rome

This blog is coming soon!  Sorry about the wait.
Posted by on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:43:00 GMT

My Trip to Italy -- Day 11 -- Sorrento again

We had a slow morning with breakfast and coffee. The only thing we had planned to do was to make preparations for going to Rome for the next two days.  Rome would be the last place we would visit on o...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:06:00 GMT

My Trip to Italy -- Day 10 -- Sorrento

My Trip to ItalyDay 10 -- SorrentoAfter breakfast we headed to Sorrento.  Finding parking was kind of a hassle.  We drove around to all of the public parking areas that we saw on the map and we finall...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:30:00 GMT

My Trip to Italy -- Day 9 -- Pompeii and Mt. Vesuvius

My Trip to ItalyDay 9 -- Pompeii and Mt. VesuviusWe took our time leaving the house.  We ate breakfast and Christine packed us all a lunch of smoked mozzarella, tomato and lettuce sandwiches. We bundl...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:34:00 GMT

My trip to Italy -- Day 8 -- Paestum

My Trip to ItalyDay 8 -- PaestumWe awoke to rain so we took our time getting ready to leave the house.  We left at around 10:30-11:00 a.m. headed for Paestum.  The road there was mostly long and borin...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:03:00 GMT

My trip to Italy -- Day 7 -- Pt. 2 -- Ravello

My trip to ItalyDay 7 -- Pt. 2RavelloWe left Positano and continued up the mountain.  The road got more winding, more treacherous, and believe it or not, even more narrow!  As we drove higher up the m...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:30:00 GMT

My trip to Italy -- Day 7 -- Pt. 1 -- Positano

My trip to ItalyDay 7 -- Pt. 1 -- PositanoI got up to start getting ready at around 7:00 a.m. because everyone else was supposed to be up by 7:30 and I wanted to get done and out of the bathroom by th...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:53:00 GMT

My trip to Italy -- Day 6 -- New Year's Day

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Posted by on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:08:00 GMT

My trip to Italy -- Day 5 -- New Year's Eve in Massa Lubrense

My trip to ItalyDay 5 -- New Year's Evein Massa LubrenseThe next morning we all woke up naturally with no alarms orwake-up calls.  We decided to make it a more laid back day because we all really need...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:56:00 GMT