Originally posted on Teela Hart:
The remarkable hardness of sapphires—9 on the Mohs scale is the second hardest mineral, right behind the diamond at 10. I took this photo of the sun and it reminds me so much of the Star Sapphire. It’s beauty is beyond words. I love your heart I love your soul…
A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body’s immune system to recognize the agent…
Originally posted on The Qwiet Muse:
I remember writing this the night my husband returned home from Iraq, it was his third and last homecoming from that faraway place . . . He’s since retired, the sight if those boots laying there was one of the most beautiful things I can remember seeing. Dust from…
Originally posted on Ranting Crow:
This picture has always been something I wanted to do a piece on. And today I finally did. Hope you enjoy this small piece of poetry. Click for larger size. Writer’s ballerina. Free On virgin sheets she dances Thrived by music she stains the sheer paper Toes dipped in blue…
I wrote this post originally in May of 2012. The memories I had trouble classifying when I wrote this post somehow ended up where they needed to be over time. I believe emotional wounds are like physical wounds. If we keep dwelling and fueling our heartache by listening to certain music, looking at certain pictures,…
So I was awake last night thinking. Actually, I was asleep and then I woke up; and since everyone else was sleeping, I just laid in bed with my eyes open, my ears alert, and my mind running a marathon. I thought I would let you wonderful blogger friends hitchhike a ride inside my tilt-o-whirl…
If you recall a few weeks back I wrote a Because Girls Are Cool post about Helena Hann-Basquiat. I have been reading a story she wrote about violent abuse against women and I would like to encourage you to check it out because, despite the content, it is a great read and I…
If you are a blogger, chances are somebody dislikes you. Chances are somebody hates you. Chances are somebody out there is offended by your blog and maybe even who you are. Chances are you will hurt somebody without intending to. Maybe you are the type of blogger that blogs to push buttons and cause…
My friend just started a great new website dedicated to Authors. Veena Kashyap is an aspiring author who decided she wanted to help others publicize their work. Veena knows first hand how hard promotion can be for an author and so she wanted to help by creating a week long author visit on her website. …
A few months ago I sat at a bar with a fake date, having a few real drinks, and laughing a lot at my own jokes. I was an extra in a scene being filmed by Outsiders Productions as a favor to one of my friends, Reina. That day I decided to do something…
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