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    • 22 Ratings
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    Before Mother's Day

    MAY 11, 2012 11:05AM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: motherhood, mother's day, parenthood, responsibility, musing, babies, pregnancy, stupid toxoplasmosis test results, post-partum depression, musings, worries

    • 1 Ratings
    • 174 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    To Whom It May Concern: An Introduction

    MARCH 14, 2012 10:28AM

    By RM Nunes


    Topics: true story, agnosticism, spirituality, self-portrait, memoir, personal, musings, satire, introduction

    • 1 Ratings
    • 178 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Is an Optimistic Skeptic an Oxymoron?

    MARCH 5, 2012 10:16AM

    By The Yellow Kite


    Topics: business, standards, politics, optimism, news, musings, life, gossip, facts, awareness

    • 21 Ratings
    • 697 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    Snow Globe

    FEBRUARY 20, 2012 5:34PM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: snow, musings, dreams, too much going on

    • 26 Ratings
    • 690 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Listening for Signals, Looking for Signs

    FEBRUARY 19, 2012 7:01AM

    By AtHomePilgrim


    Topics: a textbook i worked on once defined them as feeding fighting fleeing and sexual behavior, what's it all about alfie, spirit, musings, tea-totallums, factotums, totems, i guess that means the universe has given up on me, the owl hasn't been around for weeks, signs signs nowhere are signs

    • 23 Ratings
    • 817 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    Siberia in the City

    FEBRUARY 17, 2012 12:36PM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: arachnophobia, contemporary french literature, a plot thwarted, what's good for the goose may not be good for the gander, city life, nature, solitude, philosophy, thoreau, musings, walden, sylvain tesson, books

    • Editor's Pick
    • 52 Ratings
    • 2047 Views
    • 75 Comments
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    Failure

    FEBRUARY 1, 2012 8:30AM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: musings, perspective, education, money, values, dreams, failure

    • 21 Ratings
    • 881 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    Vegetable Revelations

    JANUARY 25, 2012 8:56AM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: i have a weird relationship with veggies, i think i might make a turnip t-shirt!, french, language, pastries, meals, taste, love, turnip puree, turnip, eggplant, vegetables, food, musings

    • 33 Ratings
    • 1130 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    Birth Control

    JANUARY 8, 2012 12:48PM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: if you don't care about these things there are pictures of michael fassbender and a kitten, children, families, family planning, musings, baby

    • 0 Ratings
    • 145 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    The Breath of the Earth

    DECEMBER 23, 2011 4:15PM

    By Kai2


    Topics: musings, prose, nature

    • 28 Ratings
    • 1092 Views
    • 36 Comments
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    What's really blocking me?

    NOVEMBER 23, 2011 1:39PM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: writing, computers, paper, henry miller, novels, novel-writing, writing process, musings, writers block, self-analysis, inspiration, rejection, literature, role models, difficulty

    • 8 Ratings
    • 751 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Lenore Wants to Be Mad at Her Breast Cancer But...Really?

    OCTOBER 11, 2011 4:15PM

    By Jane Underwood


    Topics: acceptance, anger, reflections, musings, dreams, death, disease, riffing, healing, health, cancer, breast cancer

    • 27 Ratings
    • 719 Views
    • 52 Comments
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    The Mother of Invention

    SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 8:37AM

    By Susie Lindau


    Topics: humor, comedy, technology, news, video, life, lifestyle, musings, random thoughts, star trek, minority report, pop culture

    • 0 Ratings
    • 392 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Christian Divorce

    SEPTEMBER 13, 2011 6:45PM

    By Raymond Roske


    Topics: gasoline, acceptable terms of divorce in the christian faith, motorcycles, joyful noise, cobalt blue skies and golden cottonwood trees, therapy by motorcycle, goodbye to summer, indian summer, fall, september, riding, motorcycles, and again, divorce, christianity, musings, communication, silence, exhaust, asphalt, rubber

    • 2 Ratings
    • 1278 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    On Reading Virginia Woolf's A room of One's Own

    AUGUST 20, 2011 3:54PM

    By Spectrum Voice


    Topics: musings, personal, writing, literature, room of one's own, virginia woolf

    • 17 Ratings
    • 804 Views
    • 37 Comments
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    Some things I've been wondering about....

    AUGUST 12, 2011 11:57AM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: questions, musings, unidentified mermaid, career choices, meditation, james joyce, stanley kubrick, furniture, paint, interior decorating, mosaics, pottery, lead paint, pottery glaze, art, do you know....

    • 0 Ratings
    • 85 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    New Life on a Small Farm

    JULY 27, 2011 10:23AM

    By VincentvanGoing


    Topics: open+call, root beer making, cidermaking, winemaking, science, art, stained glass, observations, musings, greenhouse, herbs, solar energy, going green, self-sufficiency, woodworking, art, photography, orchard, vineyard, farming, physician/surgeon, farmer's market, small business, nature, reflections, starting anew, baby boomer

    • 33 Ratings
    • 737 Views
    • 38 Comments
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    Nature

    JULY 26, 2011 10:38AM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: musings, nature, urban life, death, cities, cats, spiders, arachnophobia, thoughts on terrorism, pigeons, homeless people, ladybugs, love, thinking of the victims of the massacre on utoya island may you rest in peace and may the survivors find peace

    • 19 Ratings
    • 913 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    Some Thoughts on Animal Fashion

    JUNE 6, 2011 9:27AM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: fashion, animals, ecology, animal rights, fur, jess eaton, international bird rescue fund, jears, oysters, pearls, fascinators, roadkill, musings

    • 20 Ratings
    • 474 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Crushed Moth

    MAY 19, 2011 5:43PM

    By Alysa Salzberg


    Topics: questions, belief, death, killing, bugs, musings

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