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The Windup Space stage, where all the magic happened! So second year of grad school is all done and I’m particularly excited because I challenged myself by taking a storytelling class. Last year around this time I was taking a magazine writing elective with my teacher Marion Winik, on the last day of class she …
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I stumbled across My Drunk Aunts, this hysterical mini web-series a couple of hours ago and now I’m mad I’ve watched them all. If you want a serious cackle follow the adventures of Tish and Lizzie; I’ve decided Lizzie is my favorite!My Drunk Aunts
Local blogger Joel Murphy, creator of blog Hobotrashcan (thanks for putting me on Amanda L.) shares why we should respect Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” and I couldn’t agree more! A song like this doesn’t come along too often; I mean a song that no matter how often it’s played does not make you want to throw …
I love love love TV One because of Unsung. Yes I said it, I sweat TV One HARD because that show is introducing me to artists whose music I’ve heard as the background soundtrack to my life. Recently I can’t get enough of Nile Rodgers and Chic. Before that Unsung episode aired I couldn’t even …
So tonight I’m hunkering down in an attempt to come up with an idea for my book arts class final. I’m to use a piece of my own writing; I plan to use my as-yet-to-be submitted-for-publishing piece about hair, “Getting Caught in the Rain.” Then I am to choose either a traditional or non-traditional form …
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Yes, if you have been a reader of my blog since its inception you know how much I adore Miss Piggy. If you don’t know check out I Heart Miss Piggy, you won’t regret it! So it’s springtime and at least today it feels like it, although it’s gloomy and rainy, but my skin is still …
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immarkwithak: Montclair State University may have been controversial at CUPSI but I’ll always remember the poems that hit me in the stomach over the ones that I snapped a lot through. Ann Marie Iliana Manso really pushed the levels of comfort within the realm of art in this piece. It’s very real. This piece gave me goosebumps! …
Last Thursday I stumbled across salon.com article, Generation X gets really old: How do slackers have a midlife crisis? I read with interest how those of us born in the late sixties through 1980 are solidly in or approaching midlife. Our parent’s model of success: college and a ‘good’ job with a retirement pension track is …
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Check out my collage for class. The images above are borrowed from the “Carpe Denim” spread (p. 244) in the November 2013 edition of Marie Claire. I’ve been working all day to learn a Turkish fold so I can create a book for my book arts class. If you’re interested in what that would look like, check …
I hate how I react whenever anyone asks me where I work or about my job; I tend to flinch. Truth is I don’t hate my job, I don’t have nightmares about it nor do I dread coming into work so why the flinch? I’ve realized that I’ve hit a wall, I’ve been in the …
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