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The key to wiggling your ears: Walk like an Egyption!

I wanted to learn Tom Hagerty‘s scalp exercises to get the same results he has: no forehead wrinkles, lots of hair with his original hair color. (He is over 74 and still has naturally dark hair!) Previously, I couldn’t even feel the muscles at the back of the head he was talking about. Tonight I [...]

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Make your Hair Story a Happy One

Women, please do not let anyone commoditize your beauty. Our beauty is being reduced and repackaged and sold back to us in a lesser form. What? Is the only way to protest not to care about how beautiful your beautiful self looks? No, do not bother with them enough to protest, flow like the river [...]

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Christmas Stories

Check out Tinsel Tales on NPR for some Christmas stories, cuddle up by the fire, take a walk in the desert, look out over the Ocean and listen to some stories. I especially like John Henry Faulk’s Christmas Story. What are your Christmas stories? I don’t even know if I have Christmas stories… let’s see… [...]

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My inner “masculinity”/”feminity” scale

Theresa Dinito writes about the dread of feeling masculine: Masculine? Masculine. Ah, there’s the rub. The real double bind: feeling masculine. The feelings I have when I feel masculine do not fit in with the definition of masculine. I do not feel like a man or a boy. What I feel when I’m feeling masculine [...]

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Posted in Essays Epiphanies and Reviews, My Life | Tagged gender, hair, quotes, support | 1 Response

Lions, and Tigers, and sturdy shoes

For the past year or so, a creeping feeling of masculinity has wafted around me. I’m tall and I cut my hair short and I wear sturdy shoes. (Oh my!) I’ve always thought my face looks kind of boyish. And I’m around all these short, petite, skirt wearing woman. I feel the same way I’ve [...]

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Good Boss, Bad Boss (Or: I know that pointy haired guy!)

Let’s hear it for good bosses! My boss knows what I do and what I like to do. He lets me own my job and praises me when I take initiative. He encourages me to take on projects that advance our goals at work and that also advance my career and are in my areas [...]

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From Bitter to Sweet in 5 hours flat (Part 3)

You can read part 1 here, and part 2 here. I told my co-chair that it was time to get things going. We still had an official vote to cast, an exit survey to fill out, and a flower activity to do. When people turned their exit survey back in to us, we gave them [...]

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From Bitter to Sweet in 5 hours flat (Part 1)

This year as co-chair of our “young adult” group was challenging. Members of our steering committee who committed to serve flaked out leaving us with a larger than expected work load. We made several dramatic decisions (with due process) that people who founded the group were upset about. I felt a lot of pressure about [...]

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Posted in My Life | Tagged church, hair, love | 1 Response

Happy Birthday, Bella!

Laura is a writer, artist, entrepreneur, internet sex goddess, and friend, among many other things. :) Happy Birthday to you ,You are a ram too,I wish you love and happiness!!And moons that are blue! I created this drawing in dreezle, then took a screenshot, then downloaded Painter 25 and copied the screenshot into it, then [...]

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Posted in My Art, My Life | Tagged birthday, create, hair, happiness, Laura Moncur | 2 Responses

What I’ve learned: Advice for the working woman

Hey all ya’ll! Just got back from my first day of work. Here is my advice to me and you. If you have additional advice, I’d love to hear it! Make everything as convenient as possible: convenient haircut, under 10 minute meals, convenient transportation. Make it as easy on yourself as possible. You work for [...]

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