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So I love writing, reading, my family, and finding new writers with engaging voices. I call the midwest my home and don't mind any more that we are regularly buried in up to eight feet of snow every winter. In the summer, a small garden keeps me sane and

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Food & Drink > Meat How to make a five-ingredient chicken dish: 1 of 47

Despite our daily good intentions, dinner is often the last thing on our everyday To Do lists. Yet a hot meal is something we all look forward to at day's end. For families with kids, it's absolutely essential. Five ingredients are all you need to satisfy a discerning palate and a hungry stomach each night. Using chicken as ...
Food & Drink > Recipes (Other) Get out of the kitchen: Healthy no-cook recipes: 1 of 10

There are days when the outside thermometer nears 100 degrees, and it can feel as if merely switching on the kitchen stove or oven is a real challenge. Thankfully, no-cook meals are available, giving new meaning to the phrase "no sweat," and helping the overheated or overtired cook prepare delicious, family meals as healthy ...
Entertainment > Television (Other) Best of 2008: TV show (Drama): 3 of 17

With the blockbuster fantasy and sci fi hits of movies like "Ironman," "The Dark Knight" and "Spiderman" 1, ,2 and 3, it really comes as no surprise TV networks have scrambled to come up with their own mega hits to rival the action-packed characters and plotlines that have made millions for Hollywood. Enter stage left, the f...
Arts & Humanities > Literary Themes & Ideas Romance novels and what they offer the reader: 2 of 10

Of the literary genres out there, none has been so maligned and so misunderstood as the Romance novel. Romance novels, their writers and their readers often endure skepticism and derision from others. Attitudes toward the genre tilt mostly toward the romance novel as a non serious literary field. Critics argue that the formu...
Celebrations & Holidays > Gifts for Kids & Teens Christmas 2008: Gift ideas for teen girls ages 16, 17, and 18: 3 of 14

They're not little girls anymore, no matter how much you might still think they are. They're not adult women yet, despite how much they like to think they can be. So what are age appropriate gifts for the latter teen years? Especially when giving her gifts used to be as simple as picking up the closest Easy Bake Oven or orde...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Handle with care: 35 of 155

Grandmother's Mirror You ask me about the mirror in my grandmother's bedroom there now for nearly twenty five years, longer than I can remember. I don't know why it bothers me; long framed, oak thick as the spindles on the stairway my grandfather built. The mirror holds sunlight and secrets. My grandmother smoothes the glass...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Don't pity me: 64 of 168

Prima Ballerina Cool glide of satin on glistening, scuffed floor; you hold the dreams we dance to. Rachmaninoff's rhapsody in twilight: bent leg, arched back, hearts soar past this dusty room where girls weep when Madame speaks You do not have what it takes to Dance The prima ballerina's breathless poise beneath blue phantom...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Wild & free: 88 of 166

Wound The hawk with still, brown eyes tracks me, watches as I dig the stick to the ground, pull the leg, grunt breathless, lick the scent of hills all around while a lariat wind heaves and sighs. The blood follows; a wild trail seeps past dark-swept squalls beneath towering trees, mud-caked valleys. Secret groves nudge outwa...
Computers & Technology > Website Reviews Best of 2008: Website: 13 of 20

Let's face it. You can spend hours surfing the web and never once come across a website worthy of your time. While this mindless clicking of the mouse can be fun for those hoping to kill some time until the next episode of "The Office there are actually websites out there offering something of substance. Useful, entertaining...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: My painful past: 141 of 201

In Paradisium One clear, dark tomb of night wet with the lingering taste of dreams, I found darkness had splintered into the shape of a face, waxen a child. Ceaseless, silent, his eyes are rivers cutting through dirty land, dying earth, fat legs plundering a litter-strewn bank, his laughter immersed in fire, brown meadow gra...