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Gabrielle Douglas and why we need the hyphenation at this time

By Shay | August 3, 2012 | 1 Comment

It seems the Olympics are in full swing, if it weren’t for the fact that I am a social media junkie I would be totally clueless about these happenings. Remember I am the anti-sports gal. Hell, it takes a certain level of skill to fail gym at least one semester every year of high school! Most people could pass physical …

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My love in music

By Shay | August 3, 2012 | Comments Off on My love in music

  Severed Soul — Lyrics by MorganEve Swain I am a child without you near My strongest love reduced to fear For when you’re gone I’m a severed soul My poor heart bleeds from a gaping hole Love please don’t leave me evermore With you I see what life is for If you should go where would I be There’d …

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Mind your words

By Shay | August 2, 2012 | Comments Off on Mind your words

“All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don’t break them for no one.” Tony Montana (Scarface) Words, the currency with which we communicate and thanks to technology we can use our words in ways we never even imagined. This week I have been absolutely struck by the power of words, for starters I …

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Wordless Wednesday

By Shay | August 1, 2012 | Comments Off on Wordless Wednesday

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Fading to black…

By Shay | July 29, 2012 | 13 Comments

If someone had told me 15 years ago that I would spend a great deal of my free time hanging out on a computer “talking” to strangers and sharing tales of my life and my thoughts with these strangers I would have laughed my ass off and replied “Don’t think so, I am not a socially inept person.” Life is …

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To be human is to struggle

By Shay | July 25, 2012 | 1 Comment

We live in a culture that doesn’t hesitate to talk about any and everything yet despite all that we willingly talk about and share sometimes with complete strangers, many times we aren’t really talking and there are certain topics that frankly scare most us shitless, they include death and aging. Death is scary; it’s the great unknown, the absolute equalizer …

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On writing, blogging and validation

By Shay | July 21, 2012 | 3 Comments

For the past couple of months I have been running hard and running fast, so much so that for a moment I lost my way and allowed the outside chatter of others to drive my internal dialogue. This past week the situation came to a head as I allowed myself to start wallowing in the type of negative self-talk that …

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Life is short…musings on Aurora

By Shay | July 20, 2012 | Comments Off on Life is short…musings on Aurora

Last night millions stood in lines for hours to see the new film “Dark Knight Rises” my own husband and son being among those millions who went out for the midnight showing. However in Aurora, CO, 12 people walked in with nothing more than the desire to be among the first to see the highly anticipated film and sadly not …

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Are we all just frenemies?

By Shay | July 19, 2012 | 10 Comments

Life here in BGIM land has been crazy for the past several days; the agency I head is experiencing a deficit in the budget that threatens our summer program so I have been working overtime trying to keep all the balls in the air. Luckily the lights are bright at the end of the tunnel and I am hoping this …

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Wordless Wednesday

By Shay | July 18, 2012 | Comments Off on Wordless Wednesday

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Critique and activism: People getting prickly about No Kings

By Shay | March 27, 2026

As the United States prepares for another No Kings Rally on March 28, emotions online are running high as seasoned organizers—many of them Black and Brown folks—express hesitation that another national rally will do much to move the needle on our current conditions in the United States. In turn, many white-bodied people are feeling prickly …

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Critique and activism: People getting prickly about No Kings

By Shay | March 27, 2026

As the United States prepares for another No Kings Rally on March 28, emotions online are running high as seasoned organizers—many of them Black and Brown folks—express hesitation that another national rally will do much to move the needle on our current conditions in the United States. In turn, many white-bodied people are feeling prickly …

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By Shay | May 29, 2022

Happy Friday! It’s a gorgeous day up in my corner of the world and way too beautiful to be writing a blog post today. So I present you with the Friday Round-Up a list of blog posts this week from other bloggers that blew my mind. Perhaps if you need to kill some time or have a quiet moment you can check them out. http://ravingblacklunatic.blogspot.com/ Check out this cat, I have been a fan of his work forever. http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/ Good stuff here as well http://sweetersalt.com/ A Maine blogger who talks fashion and food…the best of both worlds http://paganchild-starmommy.blogspot.com/2011/03/keeping-focused.html A new blog that offers words of wisdom for all of us. http://mscleaver.com/ Another Mainer who for Lent is giving up pants, she is also a crafty gal If you have any links to good blogs, feel free to leave em. It’s my hope to make the Friday Round Up a regular feature at my new home specifically I would live to shine some light and love on smaller bloggers. It’s hard out here in this blogosphere with so many good blogs to choose from and so little time so let’s help everyone get a slice of the pie. I will be back on Monday, at that time I will unveil some ideas I have around monetizing things but You May Also Like: No related posts.

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