Black Oak's Daughter

Welcome to summer in Chicago.  It’s not supposed to cool off for a week.  My AC bill was $300 last month, I bet it’s $400 plus this month. I’m SO broke. I absolutely need the AC though. The only thing that I can really do to keep the bill down is keep the shades down [...]

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…and due to 2 hours sleep, I”ll have less as the day goes on, so I’m posting early and this one might get interesting.
I’m totally stealing this idea from Eden who got it from someone else. Eden is the originator of NaBloPoMo, so if she can do it, I figure it’s ok for me too. [...]

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I haven’t soapboxed in a while. This one strikes a chord in me though. So while I apologize for not blogging much lately, I’m off  being the mother of the bride, planning, shopping, and trying to keep the rest of my life together, redesigning this site, and enjoying a little bit of summer too, please [...]

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We lost some huge personalities this week.
Personally I’m a lot more upset about Farrah Fawcett than Michael Jackson.  I respect his talent, which was huge, but he had so many problems, and that negativity overshadowed the pure energy that he was when he was performing.  His life was twisted and tortured by his own personal [...]

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I talked to my next door neighbor while I was raking leaves today. She’s been unemployed for a few months, and hasn’t found anything that pays even half of what she was making. Her mother is a real estate agent who told her that the house across the street from me that’s for sale, as [...]

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Seriously.
The stores hype the hell out of their day after thanksgiving sales.  People become animals in search of their 20% off prey. They show up hours early and push and shove for their place in line, crash the doors when they aren’t unlocked fast enough, and today, a 34 year old temporary worker that didn’t [...]

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Namaste, loosely translated, means “I respect that divinity within you that is also within me”.  Loosely practiced in my life, means that everyone I meet deserves the same reverence, honor, and respect. At a very human level, we are all equal. If we started treating people that way, the world would be a much nicer, [...]

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They were talking on the radio this morning about the Wizard of Oz being on TV over the weekend.  No matter how many copies of it this DJ owns, whether Beta, VHS, DVD,  that doesn’t really matter. Her kids never watch it on DVD. But, whenever it’s on TV the world stops.  Meals are planned so that they are [...]

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I get all mushy on Veterans Day.  I am American. I was born here, I’ll die here. I love this country. A lot of people have sacrificed a lot for me to have the life that I have. That’s not lost on me.
Honoring veterans is important, but it’s also personal to me.
Today I take time to [...]

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Today, I got home from work a little late. Opened the garage door and then I saw my next door neighbor for the first time in 3 months, so we talked until my phone rang. It was the doctors office, they want to see me tomorrow.  I come inside, I wasn’t thinking when I opened the [...]

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