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I’m a little ashamed to admit it, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a band in concert. A LONG time. I know it was well before Noah was born, and he’s almost 3.5. Somehow, breaking away for a concert, what with ticket costs, babysitter costs, etc, just doesn’t fit [...]

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I live in Ohio, in a smallish city with plenty of rural areas available to me in a short drive. The closest farmers market to me is about a half hour drive by car. It seems silly to drive that far for some fresh produce, when I can grow it in my back yard instead. [...]

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It is with great shame that I readily admit to being addicted to Celebreality, VH1’s chosen name for its glut of celebrity focused reality shows. The name itself kind of gives away the joke, doesn’t it? There is nothing real about celebrities, which is why their own reality shows have steered so far from actual [...]

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When I decided to write about being “pro-life” I was thinking about it strictly from an embryonic or fetal rights standpoint. I think when people hear the terms “pro-life” or “pro-choice”, that’s what they automatically think of. As I started thinking about what I might write, other bioethical situations came to mind - euthanasia, the [...]

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It’s peak cycling season. How do I know? Because the DVR is full of Tour de France coverage and because on any sunny evening or weekend my husband disappears on long bike rides. This happens every July, so it shouldn’t be a surprise. The big professional races start in mid-February with the Tour of California [...]

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Are you on Facebook? If you aren’t, your friends who are will look at you in shock and horror, trying to determine if you have a physical disability preventing you from joining, such as a lack of appendages affording you the ability to mouse and type, or perhaps a life-threatening allergic reaction to the [...]

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Yes yes yes, I know you’re all busy reading the The Deathly Hallows and all that, but if you haven’t been hiding from the media to avoid all the spoilers you’ll know all about a real evil monster who’s been making the news this week. Michael The (insert rhyme of choice) Vick.
If there is one [...]

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Welcome to the first of ChatterBlog’s multi-part series! We have chosen to kick off this feature of the blog with a four part series on the Think Globally, Eat Locally movement. Every Friday throughout the series, we will have a different blogger feature one aspect of this new trend. We’re starting off with an introduction [...]

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With the fifth installment of the Harry Potter movie franchise – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – in theaters right now, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — the seventh and final book of the series poised to hit shelves on Saturday, the excitement of people across the country – young [...]

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For some reason, I get the feeling that many pro-lifers think that once a woman has a child, she has to be pro-life from then on out. I have no basis for this statement, since I don’t pretend to understand how the anti-abortion side thinks.
I’ve had a child. I’m 9 or so weeks from having [...]

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