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Transported Back to a Moment Isn't it funny how sometimes just seeing an object can instantly transport you back to a moment? On Saturday morning, Ehris came downstairs and had obviously been on a jewelry reconnaissance mission in our bedroom. She was wearing one of my all-time favorite Southwestern mosaic pendants on a multi-strand liquid silver...

Mother's Day Weekend – May 9,10,11 – Matt, Lesli, Solomon, his friend Daniel, Daniel and myself went to Oak Creek Canyon to go camping. Daniel and I got there ahead and found a place at Pine Flat, the first campground you come to going toward Sedona. The others were packed out. We got our campsite up before dark. Matt brought two extra tents that he found while working and gave us one of them...

I remember when the biggest things I wanted for Christmas were a Walkman, money for clothes, jewelry and some VHS tapes.The list was easier to make when I was a kid, because my biggest wants and desires were things, easily purchased at stores and wrapped under the tree. These days, the list is a little harder to make, and much more difficult to fulfill. My wants and desires are not always...

Hello and good to 'see' you. I wanted to introduce myself, give you a chance to see who I am and figure out if you really care what I have to say. It's my first blog online but I do keep a journal (started book 2) of things that happen to me and mine, such as funny things the kids say. I am also a decent writer (according to those in my writing club and others who read me) and an excellent...

Nearly every bride dreams of a fairytale wedding. This is the day many women have fantasized about since they were little girls. At the center of the idyllic, picture perfect wedding is a breathtakingly elegant wedding dress.Selecting a bridal gown is one of the most important parts of the entire wedding planning process. But amid the hectic frenzy of organizing a wedding, it can be hard to find...

I'm always amazed by the different forms that art takes--where music comes from, for instance, or how Michelangelo found the Pieta lying in wait inside a giant hunk of marble. Van Gogh could use swirls of paint to make a "Starry Night," while the guy next door might be lucky to paint a barn door without knocking over the can. I don't know what makes that spark of genius, but I'd like to...

At 6:13 PM EDT on October 26, 2006, Danny Harold Rolling took his final breath. Florida's most notorious serial killer since Ted Bundy was executed by lethal injection for raping and carving up five college students in a ghastly spree that horrified and terrorized the University of Florida's campus in Gainesville back in August of 1990, just as the fall semester got underway. Each one was murdered...