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Your value lies within

On being a better person...

http://www.boshemiasbohemia.com/2013/08/blooming-where-you-are-planted-to-whole.html

I've never been very good at fitting in. It's not like I was born with green skin or anything, but there have been times when I might as well have been. I'm not doing it like everybody else, that much is true. I have not raised my children "normal," I have not had a "normal" career, I do not run a "normal" business, and I have not lead a "normal" life...

I have no idea what a normal life even is... <more>

#abuse survivors #being different #being understood #childhood abuse survivors #defying gravity #elphaba thropp #heroes #someone understands #wicked

One of the lessons we were supposed to learn from Columbine was that being different is not a crime. People should not be punished for not fitting in, but they will be. As long as conformity is more acceptable than humanity, bullying will continue.<more>

I would not be where I am today if I weren't a freak...

#bullying as punishment #not being normal #school bullies #seth godin on bullying #who wants to be normal

My Dearest Child,

I knew that I could never be the perfect parent, but I didn't want to be a broken mother raising broken children either. I didn't want to repeat the mistakes of my own life. I wanted to correct them, and I have.

In you, and through you, all of my dreams

have come true... <More>

#families with secrets #remain unbroken #letter to my child #raising strong children

There's something about marketing, that just makes me feel dirty. Perhaps that's all of the marketing gurus online who are always sending me tweets, and e-mails, and links, promising to show me how to gain a gazillion followers in a week.

I don't want followers. I'm not trying to build an army of loyal minions, I'm not trying to take over the world... I'm just trying to change it... <more>

#self-publishing #setting reasonable goals #trying to do it all #writers who hate marketing

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That’s a road you don’t want to go down.

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Struggling to avoid “victim syndrome” tonight

When a viewer emails a news anchor to tell her she is fat and should be a better role model, the community responds. Admit it... that nasty man was pwned!

News Anchor Stands up to Bullying | Lessons from Columbine

This lens has now grown to over two dozen parenting facts, world records and general parenting trivia that make this Fairly Goth Mother look rather normal by comparison.

In a culture of reality TV and instant YouTube stardom it is hard to imagine any parents more bizarre than Octomom or the Dugger family with their ever expanding families, but you need look no further that the World Record Books. There have been strange parenting stories throughout human history, and new records are being broken all of the time.

I've always been a bit strange when it came to my parenting but as far as I know it has never been the record setting sort of strange. I mostly just dress really weird and collect random and mostly useless facts. But when I find parents with even stranger stories than mine, I can't help but pay attention. Join me as we explore a few of them...

Artist Ed Overson and his writer wife Ayngel have the book, they have the movie on the way, and they have their tattoo parlor. More than that they have a dream. Running their small shop together and living through their art is more than enough, but they need a little bit of help getting the rest of the way. Help fund their dream and get some books and a tattoo in the process.

Life in a boom and bust mining town has never been easy, but the last boom ended in the mid 80's and has not ended yet. The promise of a new mill some five years ago has lead to nothing but court battles and more promises for struggling residents. Boshemia is your tour guide as this film highlights that struggle using first hand accounts from long time local residents.

For five years a court battle has raged over the Paradox valley pitting mining execs against environmentalists. MEanwhile locals face an unemployment rate of 12% now Another mill has been purchased elsewhere and it is unclear as to the future of this already hard hit area...

The tiny little southwestern farming town of Naturita, Co has launched a $10K social media campaign to save their historic Uranium Drive-In sign from the junkyard... $5 at a time!

Saving the Historic Uranium Drive-In Sign $5 at a time...

I show the group of teenagers our poster and explain that we are trying to raise enough money to save the Uranium Drive-In sign, they just look confused. "We had a drive in?" Most of these kids have passed the lot where Uranium Drive-In used to be every day on their way to and from school, and never even knew it was there... until we told them. http://ping.fm/BdMQV

#drive-in history #historic landmarks #historic preservation #classic movies #saving a landmark #remember when #indiegogo

Saving the Uranium Drive-In Sign http://ping.fm/S7XJ7

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