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I just finished writing an article for Trailer Life Magazine on a rapidly growing group of women called “Sisters On The Fly.” They are a group of women, married, single, widowed, divorced, heterosexual, lesbian and whatever, who buy old camping trailers, fix them up with a cowgirl theme and meet at rallies around the USA to laugh, drink Martinis and/or wine, fly-fish, go antiquing, do crafts or just hang out around the campfire with no men, boys or kids around. Adult …

Hi Jim.
Recently you reached out to me, someone who downloaded your Blurb book software, and asked for my opinion on a survey about your product. I love the software. But the survey didn’t give me anywhere to write about that. I could click radio buttons to indicate an answer and enter myself into your free iPod giveaway, but I really wanted to give you some feedback and tell you how utterly awesome your site is. I’d love to win the iPod, but really I was looking forward to was giving …

Affection delayed is not always affection denied.
He sounds old and his voice is tired. It’s been fifteen years since I’ve heard it, but it’s definitely him.
I am caught in that melodramatic made-for-television moment where I learn that my estranged father is dying of brain cancer and I have only – days? weeks? months? – to “set things right” between us.
I have to laugh. I’m a writer, and I never would have dreamed up such a trite, overdone scenario. But here I am, actually living it. It gets better: I get …

Okay. It made my day. Suze Orman, internationally acclaimed financial wizard, Oprah money guru, and kick-ass woman, LIVED and WORKED out of a van in her 20’s. Just freaking made my day. Changed my whole attitude and perception of her as someone who “doesn’t understand us paycheck-to-paycheck” people.
And I quote, from her book Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
“I borrowed $1,500 from my brother to buy a Ford Econoline van and, with the help of my friend Mary Corlin (a great friend to this day), converted …