Dancin' the Mad Sciencetwist

Santa's Bailout

With Holidays dogged by unyielding recession, a fat man is here to relieve your depression. He’s round and he’s jolly and brings you good cheer and he’s pulling in 12mil in ad rev each year.

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Oct 30- The Day Left and Right Wingers Got Together, Didn't Kill Each Other

This weekend, tens of thousands of individuals met in Washington DC to participate in, or observe, the Rally to Restory Sanity.

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Our Unexpected Visitor- Gets Adjusted

It's been several weeks since serendipity in the form of a Thai exchange student came to our door.

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An Unexpected Visitor (Part 2)

Pon sits on the couch looking somewhere between stoic and sullen. He watches Spongebob Squarepants as my husband plays with my daughter, and I tidy up the house. We went out earlier on Saturday to help our new visitor pick up some sundries and snacks.

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An Unexpected Visitor (Part One)

Our new arrival enters our home on Wednesday to moderate fanfare. Blessed with a flexible career, I work from home that day. My husband and daughter help clean and buy groceries for our guest.

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An Unexpected Visitor... (Prologue)

A spirit such as mine runs on a serendipious force that leads me toward a myriad of unexpected situations. The intensity of such experiences ranges in degree from interesting fodder for Newsvine Articles to life-alterning moments that rock me to my core.

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On One Hand, You Have Cat

I had the most fascinating experience as I lay in my bed last night. As my eyes moved rapidly in time with the channel-surfing taking place in my exhausted brain, I suddenly felt the warm and heavy sensation of something pouncing upon my right arm with hedonistic abandon.

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Relativity

My family and I recently moved from the busy Seattle suburbs out into a quieter, more rural part of the state. The air is clean, the farmland verdant, the trees large and mossy.

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Poem: Where Strange Gardens Grow

We live in a place where the strange gardens grow,where we don't pay much mind to the seeds that we sow.And the ghostly green tendrils of strangling vines creep up behind us in infinite lines.

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Open Letter to Our America

Emerging from a dormant state I am compelled to share my thoughts on a sensitive topic. Well... the topic itself isn't sensitive, but discourse nowadays is as fragile and delicate as shards of glass or melting snowflakes.

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Into Thin Air

I had a romantic notion this morning as I sat at my new desk 3,000 miles away from my old colleagues and much of my family.

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Life Tourist Obscuria

It's been awhile since I've visited my Newsvine column. My articles stare at me during each brief visit, the long-past dates a silent testimony to my writer's block and lack of motivation.

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An Oasis of Words

Last night I reunited with a friend long neglected. As I walked between the aisles, I was filled with a profound sense that at last, I had come home to my childhood oasis.

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A Writer's Web of Consciousness

This article was created in response to a writing exercise which required me to begin each paragraph with the next letter of the alphabet.

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Campfire Soliloquy

For my new friends, a poem imbued with memories of summers past. This was based on a person experience, waking up in the middle of the night during a camping trip in the mountains of Northeastern Canada to the sounds of local musicians sharing some traditional folk ballads.

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Ignorance & Cruelty: the ultimate disabilities

She sneered at me from behind the counter, her face contorted in a mix of contempt, derision, and generic hatred for all things carbon based. I pause for a moment, unable to fully comprehend the situation. Was this woman actually mocking me?

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"Is Mr. Johnson Dead?" or a Life Tourist "overheard in my office" moment...

Although widely known and nationally acclaimed, my Generic Enviro-Social Organization is not the behemoth one would guess it to be.

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A Brief Portrait of a Feral Woman

This is a profile of a woman I do not know and dare not approach. I see her every morning as I walk from Union Station towards the Capitol Building on my way to work.

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Road Rage Poll

As Memorial Day swiftly approaches, families across the nation are loading up their cars with rapt eagerness for the delights that lie ahead.

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Daddy Myth...

There is little doubt that women have made a great deal of social progress in the past 30 years. We have found ourselves in higher, better paid positions and by our own hard work and merit we are achieving success in any field in which we direct our energies.

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