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going raw for 100 days

Photo by Lex Illustrator.
I have an announcement to make….. starting tomorrow, I will be eating a diet of exclusively raw food for 100 days. I mean to say that, until September 8, no food shall pass my lips that has been brought to a temperature higher than 118 degrees. According to Wikepedia, foodism is “Raw [...]

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sue and robert get hitched

Sue embraces her brand new husband, Robert. (Michel Laflamme photo)
What more could one ask for than to see those we love happy and healthy? My friend, Sue, is from Vancouver, but has been living in Nairobi for the last two years. It was there that she and Robert met and fell in love. And it [...]

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libera and rome’s anti-mafia shop

You can’t make this stuff up. Catholic-anti Mafia group Libera first began back on March 25, 1995 with the purpose of “involving and supporting all those who are interested in the fight against mafias and organized crime“. Since that time, Italian law has allowed over 3000 farms to be confiscated from the Mafia (by [...]

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burger grease art (mona greasa)

Phil Hansen of www.burgergreaseart.com
Found this little tasty morsel last night on Design Sponge and just couldn’t resist. Design Sponge is a Brooklyn based design /art /craft blog that does a heck of a job of consistently sharing a dizzying amount of juicy content. I’m a huge fan and was especially shocked to find out this [...]

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happy easter

My friend, Julie Lee sent me this timely little greeting. Thought I’d pass it on…..

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drinking at a kava bar and feeding moray eels

Cup O’ Kava at Kanaka Kava Bar..
I love finding these little jewels. I had stumbled upon the Kanaka Kava Bar not a minute too soon, just when I was about to accept the fact that Hawaii’s big island was completely void of any funk at all. Tucked away in the back of the Coconut Grove [...]

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and now for something completely different…..

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is there anyway you could start tomorrow?

Holy crap…..he won! I didn’t dare dream he would seize victory as he did (though I prayed for it in a daily “Please, please I will never, ever swear again” sort of a way). The world has been watching…..and the world is thrilled for his victory. On November 4, Barack Obama united America through his [...]

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collecting raindrops and sharing soup

During last month’s San Francisco trip, I was stopped in my tracks by Nikki McClure’s charming art book ‘Collecting Raindrops‘- The Seasons Gathered. To flip through its oversize pages is to be sweetly transported and deeply moved. I bought it on the spot, not even looking at the price (at $29.95 US, this delightful treasure [...]

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