Living Out Loud Volume 5: Your Personal Folklore Not too long ago my family collectively decided to defy convention and stand up in the face of consumerism, commercialism and card-company holidays. In other words – we quit buying each other gifts just because the calendar said we had to. I can’t speak for everyone else [...]

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I like to think my inner being reflects to the outer world a karma-peace-live-and-let-live-balanced-yoga sort of persona —  all ZenMama. Then I look in the mirror and I see Veruka Salt. She’s the obnoxious kid in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory who goes around screaming, “Give it to me! I want it now!” Because [...]

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You cannot live sheltered forever without ever being exposed, and at the same time be a spiritual adventurer. Be audacious. Be crazy in your own way, with that madness in the eyes of man that is wisdom in the eyes of God. Take risks, search and search again, search everywhere, in every way, do not [...]

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I often feel like I don’t belong on this planet. Things other people consider normal boggle my mind, and I notice it being boggled even more as I get older. Things like conformity, structure, closed-mindedness. Eating animals – which only really started to affect me a couple of years ago – and which I am [...]

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Like most little girls, I passionately loved horses. I’d gaze up in longing at the Breyer models in the old Mays Five and Dime, but the little plastic mare and foal that I bought with my own money on my 5th birthday and getting the 45 of the song, Wildfire for my 11th were about [...]

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