Category Archives: Random

Bullies and Bunny Rabbits — This Is Not Looney Tunes, Folks

Posted on January 4, 2012 by This Woman Writes

Bullying is a big topic these days, but it’s always been around. Combating it requires what it always has: not new intrusive laws, but leadership and support from adults who are willing to act like grown-ups. Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Beauty, blogging, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Encouragement, Family, Growth, Humor, Life, Lifestyle, Motherhood, News, Parenting, Personal, Random, Relationships, Uncategorized | Tagged bullies, bullying, friends | 16 Comments

Learning About Life from Cookies

Posted on December 28, 2011 by This Woman Writes

It is gradually dawning on me, however, that the messages within the cookies are not universally generalized inane sentiments that apply to the population at large, but insightful acumens directed specifically to me.

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Posted in Art, Beauty, blogging, Business, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Encouragement, Family, Food, Growth, Humor, Life, Lifestyle, News, Personal, Random, Relationships, success, Uncategorized | Tagged Chinese, competition, cookie, fortune | 4 Comments

The Art Collection on My Car Dashboard

Posted on December 21, 2011 by This Woman Writes

One time, a red symbol flashed at me – and in the same way that I knew that running through a flashing red intersection light is not a good thing, I knew that running a car with a flashing red light in front of my face was just as bad. But what did it mean?

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Posted in Art, blogging, cars, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Economy, Family, Humor, Life, Lifestyle, News, Personal, Random, Relationships, Uncategorized | Tagged art, car, collection, dashboard, symbols | 5 Comments

Baby, It’s Cold Outside! (That’s Why I’m Inside)

Posted on December 13, 2011 by This Woman Writes

the Norwegian Artist reaches deep back into his arctic roots and does everything but jump into the creek and run naked back to the sauna, which is fortunate because, although we have a creek, we don’t have a sauna. Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, blogging, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Encouragement, Family, Growth, Humor, Life, Lifestyle, Personal, Random, Relationships, Uncategorized | Tagged cold, dog, DVD, exercise, walk, YouTube | 8 Comments

My Beautiful Mind

Posted on December 6, 2011 by This Woman Writes

So, yes, I guess my brain is kind of flat, which is okay because so is the computer screen or the average piece of paper, and I work a lot with these. Continue reading →

Posted in Art, blogging, Business, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Encouragement, Family, Growth, Humor, Life, Lifestyle, News, Personal, Random, Relationships, Uncategorized | Tagged art, beautiful, brain, career, checks, choice, debit card, dimensional, mind, multiple, Norwegian, Polish, tests, three, writer | 8 Comments

Living Green? Don’t Be Weird about It

Posted on December 1, 2011 by This Woman Writes

I know you’re concerned, but don’t be. My inner green girl was fine: she recognizes a bag of trash when she sees it, and it’s beyond even my obsessive nature to piece a king-sized bedspread with fraying clumps of crumpled cloth French kissed by dust bunnies and entwined with bent straight pins.

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Posted in Art, Beauty, blogging, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Economy, Encouragement, Family, Food, Green, Growth, Humor, knitting, Life, Lifestyle, News, Personal, Random, Relationships, Uncategorized | Tagged art, artist, austerity, garbage, green, hat, knit, living green, quilt, recycle, reduce, reuse, scraps, Thanksgiving, trash, yarn | 5 Comments

Thanksgiving is a mindset, not a day

Posted on November 23, 2011 by This Woman Writes

We have entered a season of thankfulness that encompasses more than one day of overeating and wrestling with a 25-pound bird, kickoff to a purchasing and partying frenzy that is somehow linked to a message and a Messiah totally unrelated to fat men in red suits. Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Beauty, blogging, Business, Christian, Christmas, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Economy, Encouragement, Family, Food, Humor, Job, Life, Lifestyle, Personal, Politics, Random, Relationships, Uncategorized, Work | Tagged art, black, blessings, Carolyn Henderson, Christmas, dentis, Depression, dogs, electronics, Friday, holidays, kittens, loss, painting, paperwork, Steve Henderson, thankful, thanks, Thanksgiving, unemployment | 1 Comment

Eddie the Thug Is Looking for a Job

Posted on November 16, 2011 by This Woman Writes

As you know, these things make a huge difference in the efficient running of any company, and the reprobate who can’t get in line with the program gets in line at the unemployment office. Continue reading →

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Over Pre-Occupied with Occupy, Wall Street, and Tea Parties

Posted on November 9, 2011 by This Woman Writes

Our whole society is so infused with manipulation and deceit that it seems normal to us. Continue reading →

Posted in Art, blogging, Business, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Economy, Encouragement, Family, Growth, Humor, Job, Life, Lifestyle, News, Personal, Politics, Random, Relationships, Uncategorized | Tagged billionaires, CEOs, computer, fraud, graphic design, greed, manipulation, movement, news, newspaper, occupy, society, tax, tea parties, television, wall street | 2 Comments

The Jane Austen Driving School

Posted on November 3, 2011 by This Woman Writes

If Jane Austen were alive today, she would add a few more universal truths to the observation she’s known for – you know, the one about a wealthy man being in dire need of a wife. A driving Jane Austen … Continue reading →