Uncommonly good Uncommon Goods

November 1, 2016
uncommon-goods
If you're like me, you don't want to give common holiday gifts. No, if you're like me, you want to give UN-common holiday gifts. Enter Uncommon Goods, an online retail...
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Best gift idea of the year & giveaway

October 12, 2016
gift-idea
If you're looking for a special gift for a BFF, mother, sister --for whatever occasion, birthday, holiday, look no further. I have the best gift idea for you. Simply...
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We will never be here again

August 19, 2016
Jackson-Browne
We may lose and we may win but we will never be here again He was young and impossibly fresh-faced and adorable when he came to our attention in the early 1970s, part...
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“Montalbano sono!”

July 7, 2016
Montalbano
Per la mia famiglia a Gratteri. I dedicate this my warm and loving Sicilian family in Gratteri, who couldn't have been kinder to me on my two visits. And were nice...
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Wives of Los Alamos

May 27, 2016
book-recommendation
The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit is beautifully written, lyrical, unique and could be the best fiction I've read in a very long time. I downloaded this audio...
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Not the massage I expected

April 26, 2016
massage
Lord knows, I needed a massage.  Successful completion of physical therapy and continued workouts with Hot Trainer meant that my back was in pretty good shape, if a...
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Culture break

March 26, 2016
multi-media-art
Wandering around San Francisco's Union Square the other day, these pieces caught my eye. The artist is Fortune Sitole. They're scenes from South Africa. The artist aims...
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The trouble with the “isms”

March 21, 2016
It's been 110 years since abolitionist and women's rights advocate Susan B. Anthony died in my hometown of Rochester, NY and 168 years since the suffrage movement...
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Spring Pacifica Beauty giveaway

March 14, 2016
Pacifica-Beauty
It was rare for me to get excited about a mascara. I wanted to, because my thin, skimpy lashes need help. But most mascaras haven't delivered on their promises....
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Trans-selfish

March 11, 2016
trans-selfish
Are we over our romance with trans- people? I got to know my first trans- person in 1990, so you'll pardon me if I yawn through the gossip sites that cover every outfit...
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