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Get Connected Tuesday Blog Hop

Welcome to  Get Connected Tuesday Blog Hop. We are very happy to have you here. A special welcome to all my first visitors. If you are already a part of this hop, we are thanking you so much for your help in building Get Connected Tuesday Blog Hop and making it a success. Come and Get Connected and stay Connected. With this hop,...

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

7 things about me

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Versatile Blogger Award

Versatile Blogger Awardees

On January 22, 2012, something very exciting happened to Cure for Mondays. We received our very first award given to us by Just Another Blogger Mom.  Just before January ends, we want to pass on the good vibe and award 15 bloggers who  use their passion for writing to inform, entertain, encourage, and inspire bloggers around the world on various topics. THE VERSATILE...

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17th Annual Critics' Choice Award

The 17th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards list of winners

Photo courtesy of Whyfame The 17th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards was held on January 12 at the Hollywood Paladium. I’m sure most of you have seen it already, but I’m keeping this list as a personal reference for movies that I’m going to watch this year.  Let me check my own list so I can tell you how many of them I’ve seen...

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mental block

I get stuck writing titles because I get tangled in words and never seem able to get past them

A hazy shade of summer See? A hazy shade of summer See? ...

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Projects

Creating Bugs {Seriously}: Creepy Crawler's Bug Maker

We get occasional visits from bugs at home, and so far I have seen about three different kinds that I could not name. Spotting them and getting rid of them (using a chemical-free kind of extermination process called ‘angry mommy thrashing’) is one thing; and creating them is another.   My sister surprised Cole a Creepy Crawlers Bug Maker for his 10th birthday. We’d...

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Chris Garcia

The Philippines' Best Tattoo Artists Compete

It's the time of the year once again and a battle is brewing. World-renowned tattoo artist Chris Garcia handpicked six of the Philippines' finest tattoo artists for a face off at the Pambansang Muziklaban Grand Finals on January 28 at Aseana City, Macapagal Boulevard, Paranaque City,  Philippines. My tattoo artist, Kenneth Iwarat, is among the elite six who will square-off in the biggest...

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poetry

Insomnia--and Some Random Thoughts

Photo courtesy of havingtime.com When I'm this exhausted my state of confusion snowballs by the minute.  Anything inspiring on TV is just too much; and Crime Investigation opens an entire room of paranoia, so I leave the boob tube alone. Sleep is impossible; I get to bed only to find my feet tapping to a beat inside my head, and the top half...

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awkward

Lana Del Rey

Album release on January 30 If you like music that lets you breathe easy, then I think you’ll like Lana Del Rey’s seemingly nostalgic sound. Half of the world’s population recently decided to hate Lana Del Rey.  It seems like her performance on Saturday Night Live made a lot of people unhappy; and making people unhappy in this time and age means making...

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best friend

The not-so-secret garden of Lola Veva

 Time, sweet howbeit swift-- Leave behind a seed--   sorrow, forgotten   joy, timeless  revelry  Dedicated to Lola Veva, the woman who raised my best friend, my better half. To him you are a gem; a source of strength and boundless love. The fiercest of storms have no power over your garden, for you have planted more than what seeds can give.  ...

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cancer

Healthy Child Healthy World searches for 2012 mom on a mission

Colette Chuda, the inspiration behindHealthy Child Healthy World Nominations are now open at  http://www.healthychild.org/mission   to find eight extraordinary parents—one of whom will become our 2012 “Mom on a Mission.” From January through August, Healthy Child will select and honor one finalist each month; in September and October, the general public will vote to choose the winner, who will honored with a grand...

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Tea Mates

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