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The Stylish Monday Sweater Edit | October Link Up
I am back for the second time with the fabulous ladies of Stylish Monday. Stylish Monday is a monthly series published in collaboration with a group of international fashion and lifestyle bloggers. It is another opportunity to be creative with our personal style as we join together each month with a style prompt or theme. The style prompt for October was Sweater Edit. Being a writer and taking things literally, I had to consider the word edit before proceeding. Edit means simply to correct or change. So how does that apply to sweaters in October? I guess this is where we get creative. Not only in our sartorial interpretations of personal…
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Am I Too Old for a Nose Ring?
I did a thing last week. I got my nose pierced. Well, not actually pierced, but reopened I guess. But let me share the story. Back in 1992, when I was an 18 year senior in high school, my friend pierced my nose with a piercing gun. OMG. It was the most ridiculous thing ever. The gun got stuck in my nostril, my eyes were watering everywhere, and it hurt like hell. But I was proud as pie to have my first body piercing (other than my earlobes). Until I went home with my new facial adornment. My parents freaked out on me and adamantly insisted that the ring be…
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The Sunday Afternoon Quarterback #13: We’ll Get By With a Little Help From Our Friends
#10 Penn State Nittany Lions 27 – Rutgers Scarlet Knights 6 Moving into the last week of the regular season, we saw Penn State shooting for its third 10-win season in the last four years, a feat that hasn’t happened since the 1993-1996 seasons. Along with the 10-win season, the senior class was looking for its 41st overall victory as a group, another accomplishment that hasn’t happened since the Penn State teams of the early 1990’s. This achievement was easily within reach with the Big Ten’s worst team visiting Beaver Stadium on Senior Day. Although Rutgers kept it tight until the 4th quarter, this Nittany Lion senior class walked out…
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The Sunday Afternoon Quarterback #6: Surviving the Kinnick Graveyard of Ranked Teams
#10 Penn State Nittany Lions 17 – #17 Iowa Hawkeyes 12 Kinnick Stadium. A stripe out. The infamous pink locker room. Primetime on a Saturday night. This creates an atmosphere that inspires fear in ranked teams that visit Iowa. In 2008, I watched as #3 Penn State’s national title hopes were lost on a last second field goal to a 5-4 Hawkeye team. In 2010, #5 Michigan State came to Kinnick and walked out being beaten 37-6. The 2011 season saw #13 Michigan defeated by an unranked Hawkeye team. In 2016, an unranked Iowa team defeated #2 Michigan on a last second field goal, a win that would help set up Penn…
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Inspired by Pinterest: Jeans and a Blazer
I have been riding the struggle bus this week. Actually, I feel less like I’m on a bus ride and more like I got run over by the struggle bus. No joke. This premenopausal stage of life is not for the weak. And I am feeling pretty damn weak. There is not enough caffeine in the world to battle the debilitating fatigue that hits me every month the week before the dreaded menstrual period arrives. Granted my period itself is not so terrible anymore, but the PMS symptoms are absolutely life altering. I simply cannot function. I want to curl up in my sweatpants, eat all the Doritos and ice…
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Inspired by Elegance and Mommyhood: Writing Poetry & Link Up On the Edge #163
I used to write poetry all the time when I was younger. I felt it was easier to express myself in the shorter bursts of emotions that lend themselves better to poems than prose. In fact, in one of my elementary school yearbooks, I am quoted as saying that I wanted to be a poet when I grow up. That quickly morphed into the broader classification of writer once I realized how very little contemporary poets are appreciated in this world. Once upon a time, I had dozens of journals filled with my poetry. But that was all lost in a fire. Not the kind of fire you would suspect…
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Fall Fashion with Rosegal & Your Own Twist Link Up #12
The shift in seasons signifies so much more than just a change in weather. Seasonal changes are reflections of life and the necessary cycles that come with it. In Fall, we celebrate new beginnings with the start of the school year. We celebrate friends and family with the coming of the holidays. We celebrate abundance with the autumn harvest. We celebrate the earth as she begins her slow descent into the frozen hibernation of the Winter months whereby rest is granted in preparation for new life to emerge in Spring. Every season is significant in its own special way. Every season is important in the endless cycle of life. The…
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Painting the World in Tie Dye with Sherri’s Shirts & #SpreadTheKindness Link Up #139
Did you know tie dye was trending? It seems kind of odd calling tie dye a trend when it has been a classic garment in American culture since the 1960’s. However, it has been around in the States since as early as the 1920’s and remained popular through the Depression era as people used tie dying techniques to redecorate their homes by refreshing old fabrics into new and unique pieces. But it dates even further back than that as a classic method of dying clothing in Ancient Asia. As far back as 6th century India, tie dye techniques were used to color fabrics for garments and this dying process is…
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Getting Ready for Fall with Rosegal
It’s no secret that I love all shades of green, but there is a special place in my fashion loving heart for all things olive green. For as long as I can remember. It is the traditional base color in camouflage, which is also a life-long love. Olive green also represents the traditional color of peace. When combined with shades of blue, there is a strong representation of nature as well as new growth of the forest and of water. While most people strongly associate Spring with growth and rebirth, for me, Fall has always carried a significant life changing force that touches me somewhere deep inside my soul and…
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Wednesday’s Quote of the Week: The Good Life
Yesterday, I wrote a post about Good Life Healing Arts & Gift Shop, and while I was searching for quotes to share in conjunction with that post, I found an abundance of wise words about living the good life. So it seemed an appropriate theme for today’s Quote of the Week post. All about living the good life. “Life is good when we think it’s good. Life is bad when we don’t think.” -Douglas Horton And isn’t that exactly how we attain the good life? It is a good life when we think it’s good. And when we choose not to think at all, when we choose not to count…