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Mimi Lenox

Savvyology

by JHSEsq

Her blog is a thing of beauty. B.Y. Pen­man knows how to write suc­cintly and say much. Self-described “Mother, poet, artist, and stu­dent of life with a dry, off­beat sense of humour” Savvyology’s Moments Mat­ter Most is a lovely place to be. It is dif­fi­cult to view her online space with­out rec­og­niz­ing the sheer brilliance […]

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Beaman’s World

by JHSEsq

Berlin and Bea­man go together like duck soup and Sauvi­gnon Blanc. His sto­ries are a deli­cious blend of sparkling words with just the right amout of sen­ti­men­tal spice. Patri­cia: A Voice in the Crowds writ­ten May 11, 2007 is one delec­table exam­ple of his pen­chant for tak­ing the reader on a jour­ney they’ll never forget. […]

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King Of The Cubicle: A Look at Corporate America From Inside the Cubicle Farm

by JHSEsq

We’ve all expe­ri­enced our share of harm­less flir­ta­tions at the office on any given busi­ness day. Some more harm­less than oth­ers, I’d say, and all fraught with con­tro­versy. Busi­ness meet­ings can be dry and bor­ing, but today’s Ris­ing Blog­ger win­ner, known as King of The Cubi­cle, takes a def­i­nite twist round the con­fer­ence table with […]

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Confessions of a Pioneer Woman

by JHSEsq

We’ll blame it on hor­mones. Or insan­ity. Or The Nut­cracker.All seem to fit. We don’t know why she did it. She doesn’t know why she did it. God prob­a­bly doesn’t even know why she did it. But she did. This story is so amus­ing we refuse to actu­ally tell you what she did, but it has […]

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Dad Gone Mad

by JHSEsq

We at The Ris­ing Blog­ger see a lot of “mommy blogs.” Dia­pers and car­pools and tem­per­a­tures at mid­night cre­ate a com­fort­able com­raderie of mis­ery and joy in the blo­gos­phere. Today we dis­cov­ered a “daddy blog” of sorts. In fact, this for­mer sports­writer dad has gone stark rav­ing Dad Gone Mad mad. In his post dated […]

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Your Mirror or Mine

by JHSEsq

Today’s post is rather life affirm­ing. Our author Phara has expe­ri­enced one of the worst things a par­ent could imag­ine. Eleven years ago her three-year-old son was diag­nosed with leukemia. Three years later in 1999 things took a turn for the worse. The Make-A-Wish Foun­da­tion con­tacted Phara to lift her son’s spir­its. Her son wanted […]

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This Eclectic Life

by JHSEsq

Today one can find a gazil­lion posts on Mother’s Day through­out the blo­gos­phere — all rightly hon­or­ing those spe­cial ladies in our lives. Every­body, it seems, has a Momma story. But we at The Ris­ing Blog­ger chal­lenge you to find a story as hon­est and real as Shelly’s post about her own. “Lordy, I miss […]

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Mattress Police

by Mimi Lenox

Harry Pot­ter and the Inevitable Slide Into Satanism … could one really stum­ble across this title and not stop to read? We thank what­ever voodoo doll is respon­si­ble for trip­ping us into Diesel’s blog because it is hilar­i­ous. Cen­sor­ship, par­ent­ing, edu­ca­tion, and reli­gion are all humor­ously attacked in the award-winning post, writ­ten Jan­u­ary 10, 2007. Diesel […]

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Bagwine Ruminations

by Mimi Lenox

Our team was looked upon as a team of trou­ble­mak­ers … a team from the wrong side of the tracks,” writes Matt-Man at Bag­wine Rumi­na­tions. His May 1, 2007, post speaks to the issue of class dis­crim­i­na­tion with a cast of “frigid Step­ford wives and cashmere-wearing dads.” Told with humor and insight, this far­away memory’s […]

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