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Sometimes you just have to answer the question of HOW DISGUSTING IS IT REALLY? I felt that way about a new Christmas candy I saw in the store a few weeks ago. So I decided to find out. This is PART TWO

So a few weeks ago, I saw this really gross looking candy on sale in our local drug store. I knew at the time it was bound to be disgusting, but couldn't stop thinking about the all-important question:

In January always like to blog about my favorite books of the year. Because I do a lot of editing and beta reading, I recognize that can cause bias, so my only rules for this annual post are: 1) I read

Once again it’s time to take stock of what I’ve accomplished in the last year and what I’d like to do in the next one. As I said last year, I live in a perpetual state of feeling like I’ve never accomplished

Photo labeled for reuse online. There's a half dozen or more PhD degrees to be found in the title of this post. If anyone out there is looking for a psych/communications PhD angle, please feel free to

When I was fifteen years old, my then-boyfriend, now-husband ( @brianreecegreen ) took a photo of me and then rendered into a pencil drawing. We still have that piece hanging in our living room. The other

My husband turned 45 this past May. In February, before that significant birthday, he discovered that he had one year left in his very long-held retail management position due to companywide re-organization.

Photo credit: @brianreecegreen Art credit: um, I don't know? This statue was in the Met in NYC and that's all I've got on it. We took the picture because when we first glanced at her, we thought she was

As an author I think the words we use and the stories we tell play a huge role in how our lives play out. Especially when those stories are about ourselves. There's a story I stopped telling about myself

Photo credit: me Location: Farragut, TN Camera: iPhone 6 On either side of our front door we have some very neglected climbing rose buses. Despite how poorly we care for them and how bug riddled they often

Photo credit: me Date: December 2016 Place: Dollywood, Sevierville, TN Christmas in July is a becoming quite the "thing" in America and usually I can't buy into that at all, preferring to keep

Photo credit: @brianreecegreen Date: July 2015 Art credit: Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II by Gustav Klimt Museum: MOMA, NYC First a bit of information about this painting: it was owned by Oprah Winfrey

Photo credit: me Art credit: The Three Fates by @brianreecegreen (my husband) Camera: iPhone 6 Date: July 2016 This is a detail photo of a piece of art my husband's been painting off and on for nearly

Photo credit: me Location: downtown Knoxville, TN Date: July 4, 2016 Camera: iPhone 6 Photo filter: Prisma App Models: my daughter and her friend I love the way the Prisma App pops the color on this and

Yoga is weird. It illuminates all kinds of issues that you don’t anticipate when you step on the mat. Like today, for example, and how my reaction to realizing that I utterly stunk of garlic, highlighted

Photo credit: me Location: Knoxville, TN Date: December 1998 Camera: an old point and shoot I had at the time Model: S. Maples Taken in a now defunct restaurant in 1996, this photo shows a handsome man

Photo credit: me Location: Farragut, TN Date: November, 2016 Camera: iPhone In searching for a photograph for today's color challenge, I discovered that I don't often take pictures of orange things. However,

Photo credit: me Location: St Pete Beach, Florida Date: July 12, 2017

Back in college, my then-boyfriend, now-husband loved to play with symbolism and to tie little pieces of life together with references to poetry, art, and philosophy. At the time, he worked on his art

I spent about an hour writing a post. I clicked Post, saw it go through, went to the New page and saw it listed there, along with the value associated with my own upvote. Then I went back to my Blog page