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Thirteen Things that Rus MUST do before school begins! 1. Make time to visit the ocean for a sunrise. When I was teaching in southern Maryland, I would spend the early morning before the first day teaching watching the sunrise, allowing the water to wash over my feet, feeling the sands come and go between…
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As I hit the home stretch with this piece, I dare ask a few questions for serious discussion: Should writers take risks with their writing that some may deem innapropriate, including members of the writer’s family and those in his/her social/professional circle? When a writer shows you, the reader, his/her raw side, do you appreciate…
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Grab the Scavenger Hunt code. Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants. This week’s theme: Money At the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we launched our anthology, September Eleven: Maryland Voices at the state library, and this was given to me by an anonymous reader that day…It conjures up feelings that have long since…
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Hello, Friends… Will be a little quiet here at rus vw as I continue to work on deadline for the healing-through-writing piece. M was up most of the night, and BC got up before sunrise, leaving little time to write in the last 12 hours… I hope to finish tonight/tomorrow a.m., and then I’ll be…
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Thirteen Things pulled from Rus’ DAYBOOKS! Ok, folks. These are little original gems that I have pulled from my daybooks (journals) over the past few years…Which is your favorite?1. 25 February 2004, 11:30 p.m.: Thich Nhat Hanh writes in Being Peace, On the wooden board outside of the mediation hall in Zen monastaries, there is…
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I’ll tell you what makes me happy (Lush lovers, please pardon the steal of this happy, happy phrase): Finding another small, small, nature-lovin’, happy hippy kind of home business that compliments Lush products, which i have fallen madly in love with over the past month or so. Enter Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab. Never before have…
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I’m looking forward to the day. My wife and older daughter are hitting the theater to see Pirates, and I’ll be at home with the younger two (ages 4 and 2). It’ll be fun to be goofy with them for a few hours without having to worry about the pre-teen-itude to come creeping in from…
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Grab the Scavenger Hunt code. Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants. This week’s theme: Pets/Animals This little emu welcomed us at our local petting zoo one morning…(shhh…she really thinks of herself as quite the beauty!)
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Thanks to all for your responses regarding my Thursday Thirteen… The one untruth in the list is….no. 10. It is something that i have always wanted to do, but alas, I have never left North America…. And…I did get away from the cop in hot pursuit! How lucky I was that night….Though the duck-crossing sign…
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Thirteen Things about Rus Ok, folks. TWELVE of these are true, which means that one is not. Can you guess which one of these 13 is NOT true about me? Good luck! 1. I was a vegan for 18 months, lost 80 pounds, and took 100 points off of my overall cholesterol level.2. I drove…
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