: About Me

A 29 year-old poet at heart, Alina Marks is an unemployed waitress with a shopping addiction that is looking to start a freelance writing career. She is a recent Portland State University graduate with a B.A. in English and a minor in Russian. While she prefers to stick with creative non-fiction, fiction and poetry, she also enjoys many other avenues of writing. Fashion, food and drink, photography, health, fitness and travel are among her interests.

My passion is ...

photography, fashion, writing (duh)

I know too much about ...

cancer

My parents always told me ...

Do what you love

My childhood ambition ...

fashion designer

My favorite memory ...

playing in piles of raked leaves as a kid

Why I write ...

I have to/therapy

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Too many to list...

My first job ...

ski check girl

My best moment ...

I can't pick just one..

My inspiration ...

friends and family

Health & Fitness > Healthy Living & Wellness How to naturally rid your body of toxins

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It's Monday morning. You've just hit the snooze button for the fifth time and your eyes still refuse to open. Your body aches. You're thirsty, irritable, and bloated. Your skin feels like it spent the night in a hot dryer. The only thing that is going to get you out of bed is a cup of coffee, but even just the sound of another toxic beverage makes you cringe. You just spent the long holiday weekend going from party to party. The alcohol was flowing. The cakes, cookies, and fatty foods were abundant. There is nothing left to do but rid your body of the toxins, but how? First, get up and dri...

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