From the monthly archives:

August 2008

The Intensive Art

by JHSEsq
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Nom­i­nated by Laura at Adven­tures in Jug­gling, our August 25, 2008, Win­ner Sean earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Nurs­ing in Decem­ber 2006 and, after two years work­ing on a busy sur­gi­cal unit, tran­si­tioned to an Inten­sive Care Unit (ICU) in March 2008. How­ever, his career has not pro­gressed in the way he hoped. He candidly […]

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Clusterfook

by JHSEsq
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Nom­i­nated by Paula When Paula nom­i­nated Lisa Kelly’s arti­cle, Fac­ing Myself, to receive the Post of the Day Award, she wrote: “Pretty much her entire blog is award-worthy. She posts about her life with can­cer (for the 3rd time!) and the pos­si­bil­ity that she will leave behind two lit­tle girls and a hus­band with great candor […]

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Adventures in Juggling

by JHSEsq
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Laura Scar­bor­ough calls her­self the “Mas­ter Jug­gler under the Big Top that is my life.” With good rea­son. Laura has a hus­band, five chil­dren, a beau­ti­ful new grand­daugh­ter named Hazel, a few ani­mals, and a full-time job — she’s a Reg­is­tered Nurse in the Level III Neona­tal Inten­sive Care Unit of a local hos­pi­tal. Laura resides […]

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Judd Exits The Rising Blogger

by Judd Corizan

The Ris­ing Blog­ger was a cre­ation of Mimi Lenox and Bud Weiser in April 2007. This blog was con­ceived for a cou­ple of rea­sons. One rea­son was that Bobby Griffin’s Bestest Blog had shut down. While there were a lot of blog review­ers and awards out in the blo­gos­phere, most barely seem to touch on […]

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Always Home and Uncool

by Bud Weiser

A recent win­ner nom­i­nated Kevin, author of Always Home and Uncool. The post nom­i­nated was pub­lished May 6, 2008, titled You Go, Amer­i­can Girl. Go Now. Kevin is the father of a daugh­ter and son, but Kevin’s win­ning rant is about his daugh­ter, her future, fem­i­nism, and Bar­bie Dolls. Well, the dolls are both polit­i­cally incorrect […]

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Moody Blue

by Bud Weiser

We have a com­plete change of pace today. Since Bar­bara wrote a review of a post address­ing a rather seri­ous sub­ject yes­ter­day (and well done, I might add), we thought we’d go for some­thing lighter today. Jodi authors Moody Blue. It is a light and breezy glimpse into her life. For instance, she says, “I am […]

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A Soldier’s Mother

by Barbara

The Chi­nese philoso­pher Lao-Tzu once said, “A jour­ney of a thou­sand miles begins with a sin­gle step.” This is what A Soldier’s Mother has done. The blog was estab­lished by a mother to doc­u­ment the activ­i­ties of her son, Elie, a young sol­dier. He began his three years of ser­vice in the Israeli army in March 2007 […]

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Other Things Amanzi

by Mimi Lenox
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What would you do if had to save a cold-blooded killer’s life? What if it fell to you, on any given day, to remain impar­tial, silent, non-judgmental, pro­fes­sional … stoic? Could you sep­a­rate your feel­ings and do your job? Fam­ily was writ­ten in the noto­ri­ously crime-ridden province of South Africa’s Mpumalanga. Bongi, the writer of the […]

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