The following is my attempt at creating a digital artifact for a course I’m doing through the University of Edinburgh.  I’m sharing it here for assessment as well as for feedback. (With very special thanks to Ruthie for her sterling job as a model!)

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Endings and Beginnings

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’… ~ Alfred Tennyson 2012 was a really rough year.  For myself, and for my family.  You know the saying, it never rains, it pours?  Well, that was my life, one big outpouring of , well, crap. I’m a really positive person, as anyone who really knows me will attest to.  Sure I have my down times, but I’m able to recognize them and deal with them, pretty much immediately. Last year however, was a completely different thing.  Who knew hormones could have such an effect? Towards the [read more]

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I Call You Mom (on the occasion of my mom-in-law’s 70th)

“I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.” ― Maya Angelou I call you mom, not because I am married to your son, but because that is what you are to me.  You welcomed me into your family and have loved me unconditiona

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There's Never a First Time

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”  ~ Maya Angelou The first time I chose to have sex was when I was nineteen. I’d been dating my boyfriend for about eight months and I loved him deeply.  I felt

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9 Reasons Why You Should Masturbate

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. ~ Lily Tomlin I had an interesting conversation about sex with a friend the other day, and it led me to thinking about female sexuality and how it is vie

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Why You Should Never Cancel Girls Night Out!

In my friend, I find a second self. ~ Isabel Norton Female friendships are something of a spiritual thing.  They are healing in a way that a relationship with a man can never be – and this is in no way meant to demean my husband, whom I love

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Pondering Pleasure – Children and Friends Near and Far

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” - Cesare Pavese Looking back on the 2nd week I have spent in bed, I have been contemplating the subtle difference between happiness and pleasure.  To me, happiness has always been fleeting, caught

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The Benefits of Forced Solitude

Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone.  And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.  ~Paul Johannes Tillich I have spent the last two weeks (four to go) for the

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Pondering Pleasure – True Friends

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ~ Anais Nin Taking a page out of the ‘book’ of one of my favourite bloggers, Britt Reintz , who bl

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Death and Atonement

“There is no moral high ground, only being true to what you believe.” ~ Michelle Robertson (that would be me) I want to take this opportunity to thank my family and friends for all their support and love over the last few months.  It’s been

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