Category Archives: endorsement

If the bus were cool.

By spider | Published: January 12, 2009

If the bus were cool, more people would ride it. If the bus were cool, car drivers wouldn’t be frightened of the “dangers” of sharing their motorized transit with folks they don’t know – delinquents and vandals. If the bus were cool, less gas would be wasted If the bus were cool, admit it, YOU’d [...]

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Spun

By spider | Published: January 7, 2009

I spent a lot of time in the gym in 2008. I’d really begun my gym routine back in May 2007, but fell off pretty hard in the 07-08 winter. I think it was March last year before I got my groove back, and lo and behold, I actually stuck to my guns! I was [...]

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By xtina | Published: December 3, 2008

I hesitate to write about this because I rilly rilly rilly detest it when people write about their gym rattedness, so I’m gonna try to avoid repelling you (the faceless, nameless reader) with too much of my own pomposity on the subject (good luck). Anyhoo, yass, recently I became a born-again gym-loving person. For months [...]

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You’ve got to Vibrate On

By xtina | Published: November 8, 2008

Eating: fair-trade organic milk chocolate (I love you green & black!) Whum, straight into the 8th day frizzle-frazzle. Ima tired. So durn tired, but I will write. What should I write about? Wade sez I should write about the ‘rhythm of the universe’. Herm. Instead I think I will write about why we spend so [...]

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Around town: San Diego, California

By xtina | Published: July 30, 2008

      Opening the door to Urban Seed & Flower is a little like opening the lid to a treasure chest except it’s as big as a house and full of magic. Owners Maurice and Michael, highly respected landscape architects, have filled this beautifully renovated building with wondrous objects from their trips throughout Europe [...]

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the little birdies twittering in the trees

By xtina | Published: June 9, 2008

Technology happens in this day and age. It moves forward relentlessly as hungry people engorged by the thought that ‘there is money in them thar tubes’ write ever more code, powering new and oblique technologies to bring people onto their web sites. Some of the applications try to help people like donorschoose.com while others are [...]

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La Vida Verde

By xtina | Published: September 16, 2007

In the pursuit of leaving less of on impact on Grandmother Earth and ensuring a healthy environment for the wee ones of my wee ones, I have been immersing myself in the treatises and philosophies of the so-called “green” movement. I have found many, inspiring on-line mentors who challenge and inspire me on daily basis. [...]

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money can buy you a new best friend, but money can’t buy my love

By xtina | Published: April 14, 2007

My bro & co-poster Rick has kicked-off a new phase of life wherein he has decided to eschew tell-lie-vision for a more involved life, more social connections, more experiences. I wholeheartedly support his efforts. Wade and I moved in together in 1998 about one year before we got married. Neither one of us owned a [...]

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I love this!

By xtina | Published: April 8, 2007

What Every Woman Should Have and Know By Maya Angelou A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE … enough money within her control to move out and rent a place of her own even if she never wants to or needs to… A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …. something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her [...]

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alterna*-mom’s how not to do it: beauty products

By xtina | Published: February 13, 2007

A few years ago I read a book called Curly Girl. It is basically a primer for peeps with curly or wavy hair and describes in rigorous detail how one afflicted blessed with non-barbie hair should maintain it. The main premise is that shampoo is bad because it strips hair of its precious natural oils [...]

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An Ode to Black Tea (& Love)

By xtina | Published: November 15, 2006

Black tea buoys me It lifts me through my day It makes me feel like a hummingbird Sucking sweet nectar from a bright red flower Alive and swimming on the rich crest of life. When my husband makes me a cup of his special brew And hands it to me, It’s like he has handed [...]

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Popozao – I voted for Britney Spears

By xtina | Published: November 7, 2006

Another voting day has come and gone — the polls closed at 8. I am too uninterested to see what’s winning since I have little faith in my fellow Californians (no, not you!). So much stuff on this ballot was utter crap. The ballot here was heavy with a long list of judges for whom [...]

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