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Why Women in the US Must Pay Attention to the Protests in Iran
An opinion piece I am one of the millions, perhaps billions, of people paying attention to the protests in Iran from the safety of my home in the United States. They have undeniable power over me, like the gravity of a massively dense object. I watch video after video of the protests. But, I didn’t…
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Something to Remember
Want more poems? Try A Letter To My Former Self Or maybe you’d like The Leap Perhaps I Love You Like Coffee? Did you know? I have another blog, Basic B Finds Balance, about my journey as a recovering workaholic to find something that feels like balance before it is too late. Follow along on my journey…
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Gone But Not Forgotten
Sometimes I can feel them watching me, the loved ones I’ve lost. Not everyone, I can’t feel my former boss from the restaurant I used to work at nights and weekends after my relationship with my daughters’ father fell apart and I had to work two jobs to make ends kind of meet; the boss…
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Obstacles
(Inspired by Lesson 1 of Daily Om’s course A Year of Writing to Uncover the Authentic Self) My biggest obstacle is myself, or rather, my limiting beliefs. What is standing in my way right now is the fear of not earning money, not being a talented enough writer, and being a talented enough writer but…
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If San Diego Was a Woman Who Would She Be?
There is a quote I love from the book “I Was a Teenage Fairy” by Francesca Lia Block that got me thinking; if San Diego was a woman who would she be? The quote goes like this: “If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister,…
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Gray
I think gray is my favorite color because it reminds me of the oceanon an overcast, cloudy daythe type of day where the white-capped waves crash almost angrily against the slate colored rocks at the shore Or maybe it is because it reflects the complexity of lifethat nothing is really all black or all whitebut…
Dee Writes 