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Friendship in the Age of Social Media | challaandhaggis
https://challaandhaggis.wordpress.com/2016/11/12/friendship-in-the-age-of-social-media
Trying to keep the creative spark fanned. Friendship in the Age of Social Media. November 12, 2016. November 13, 2016. As anybody who uses it knows, social media, and particularly Facebook, has the power to unite, and to divide. But that’s not quite right: The truth is that social media makes it EASIER to unite or divide, but it’s not the thing with the power to do either one. We are. This is why I don’t care about gender, or age, or religion, or culture, or background, or so many more unimportant ...
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My On-Again, Off-Again Relationship With New York City (or If an Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away, Why Did I Get So Sick of the Big Apple?) | challaandhaggis
https://challaandhaggis.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/my-on-again-off-again-relationship-with-new-york-city-or-if-an-apple-a-day-keeps-the-doctor-away-why-did-i-get-so-sick-of-the-big-apple
Trying to keep the creative spark fanned. My On-Again, Off-Again Relationship With New York City (or If an Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away, Why Did I Get So Sick of the Big Apple? August 7, 2016. September 20, 2016. An Open Letter to a Cowardly Neighbor →. 4 thoughts on “ My On-Again, Off-Again Relationship With New York City (or If an Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away, Why Did I Get So Sick of the Big Apple? August 7, 2016 at 8:40 pm. Liked by 1 person. August 8, 2016 at 1:16 am. Liked by 1 person.
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The Necessity of Perspective | challaandhaggis
https://challaandhaggis.wordpress.com/2016/10/09/the-necessity-of-perspective
Trying to keep the creative spark fanned. The Necessity of Perspective. October 9, 2016. October 9, 2016. Anybody who has ever taken grade school Art class has learned about perspective. Before it, you drew one-dimensional pictures that seemed to have something missing, because they looked nothing like reality. But with it, your pictures gained the multi-dimensional look of real life. Perspective gives you a more complete picture of the way things really are. As goes art, so goes life. Another example, o...
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My Life at 45 | challaandhaggis
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Trying to keep the creative spark fanned. My Life at 45. November 23, 2016. November 24, 2016. As a child, I never understood why adults were so dismissive of their birthdays. And then, somewhere along the way, I became an adult myself. This year is a milestone birthday for me. Or perhaps a mid-milestone birthday, as I’m halfway between 40 and 50. I’m at the age where a birthday no longer marks the exciting steps taken away from birth. Instead, it is a step towards an eventual death. Second, it was time ...
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Talking to Strangers | challaandhaggis
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Trying to keep the creative spark fanned. August 4, 2016. September 20, 2016. On a trip to New York City yesterday, my daughter said to me, “You like talking to strangers.” It was an interesting observation because I have no doubt many people who think they know me or kind of know me from social media would think that I hate people. But my daughter is right–I DO like talking to strangers. And I typically do it without a conscious thought. Of strangers, we need to realize the. Coming to Terms With Feminism.
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On Trump and the U.S. Election by an American in America | challaandhaggis
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Trying to keep the creative spark fanned. On Trump and the U.S. Election by an American in America. November 7, 2016. I was recently asked by Renée at the Mummy Tries blog. To write a post about how I thought a Trump presidency might affect the rest of the world. I waited until just a few days before Election Day to write the piece because my thoughts and opinions were on a roller coaster ride on a daily basis. If any of this makes you uncomfortable, it should. As for giving a lunatic the codes for the n...
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The Silence | challaandhaggis
https://challaandhaggis.wordpress.com/2016/10/21/the-silence
Trying to keep the creative spark fanned. October 21, 2016. November 17, 2016. I awoke feeling surprisingly well-rested. Heading to the kitchen, I smiled for the first time since the hellish ordeal with Max started. I had won. The kids were mine. But the items on the table stopped me short. They were in Max’s habitual morning arrangement. Then, I noticed the silence. Update: This story was picked as the winner of the October contest! The End of a Marriage (Sunday Photo Fiction). Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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The Gifts I Want for My Birthday Are Not for Me | challaandhaggis
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Trying to keep the creative spark fanned. The Gifts I Want for My Birthday Are Not for Me. November 1, 2016. November 1, 2016. November is here already, at just about the time we were getting used to the idea of October. The truth is, we’re never quite ready for the steady passing of time, no matter what month the calendar turns to. I’ve given a lot of thought to what I want to do to celebrate my milestone birthday (and why are milestone birthdays only those divisible by 5, anyway? I’d love to live...
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rachellmacaulay | challaandhaggis
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Trying to keep the creative spark fanned. February 11, 2017. Sometimes poetry is purely primal, and the words never ring truer…. You have woken the witch that lives deep inside me. You have removed the slumber chains from the giant of old. You have handed me a box of matches and no chaperone. And a world made of lies and polyester. You have barked up the wrong bitch. I have shucked off the good, southern lady’s cloak,. Of the homecoming court, the cheerleader,. When I was young and bossy and sure-footed.
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