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$2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing In America

Posted on July 15, 2017 by carilynn27

$2.00 A Day: Living On Almost Nothing In America By Katheryn J Edin and Luke Schaefer, 2015 After the Civil War in the 1870s, Aid was created for the Windows of the War. That was about all that was available … Continue reading →

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Gentrification

Posted on July 2, 2017 by carilynn27

July 1, 2017 Gentrification Gentrification comes from the old French word genterise, which means “of gentle birth.” The term refers to the process of renovating poor urban neighborhoods. Gentrification can be seen as an attempt to beautify or civilize the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, Movies/TV | Tagged Abandoned Homes, altruistic, beautification, better themselves, Boarded Up Businesses, Change, Cheap Land, Chicago, City Centers, deindustrialization, Denver, displacement, Economists, education, Evolve, Facelift, fad, Fashion, Flip, gentle, gentle birth, Gentrification, Ghetto, Health Care, homeless, inflation, Inner City, invest in people not places, investments, Jamba Juice, Laundromat, Mansfield, MIddle Class, Monett, New, new problems, Old, Poor, Poverty, profit, Property Taxes, Racism, replacing poor, Rich, rough birth, Shameless, Shelby, Starbucks, Subtext, Suburban, taxes, The Great White Flight, theme, trend, Urban Decay, wage gap, Yoga Studio | 1 Comment

Shameless

Posted on July 2, 2017 by carilynn27

Shameless I read that Shameless is the most watched series on Netflix in America. Sherlock Holmes is the most watched Netflix show in England. This sparked my curiosity and so I binged watched Shameless this week—all 7 Seasons. The first … Continue reading →

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The Fellowship of the Ring

Posted on January 20, 2015 by carilynn27

The Fellowship of The Ring I re- read The Fellowship of the Ring. I felt almost as if I had slipped back to Middle Earth, where magic was still alive and common place. Middle Earth, I realized, was Tolkien’s way … Continue reading →

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Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Lost | Tagged Aragorn, Banding Together, Battle, Corruption, Dark Age, darkness, Dwarves, Elves, Englightened Beings, Fantasy, Fear, Fiction, Fight, Frued, Good Storytelling, Greed, History, Hobits, Humankind, Humans, Ignorance, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jung, mankind, Men, Middle Earth, Movies, Mythology, Nature, Poverty, Power, Strider, The Fellowship of the Ring, War, Western World | Leave a comment

Staying Home

Posted on March 21, 2014 by carilynn27

Staying At Home There has been debate among mothers about rather it was best to stay at home or work. In my case, I felt like I didn’t have much of a choice. Even still, I received flack from family … Continue reading →

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Posted in Event, Flashback | Tagged 2007, 2nd Trimester, Ana, ATV, Boston Harbor, Boy, Childcare, Cousin, Day Care, diarrhea, Digestive Issues, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, James Joyce, July, Maternity Clothes, Min Wage, Money, Nap, New England, Odyssus, Poor, Poverty, Pregnancy, Preschool, School, Sebastian Vaughn, son, Staying At Home, SUV, Ulcerative Colitis, Ultrasound, Ulysses, Vacation, Work | Leave a comment

Notes From The Underbelly

Posted on March 21, 2014 by carilynn27

Notes From The Underbelly Notes from the Underbelly was a new show on ABC that season. The show is centered on the experience of a couple of expectant Mom’s. The title was a play on Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Biology, Event, Health | Tagged 1st Trimester, 2007, Age, Clot, Cooper, Doctor, Fever, Flu, Food, Headache, Jennifer Westfeldt, Maternity Clothes, Middle 30s, MIddle Class, Miscarriage, Morning Sickness, Mucus, Nausea, Notes From The Underbelly, Notes From The Undergroujnd, Poverty, Pre-Term Labor, Pregnancy, Progesterone Shots, Sebastian Vaughn, Stomach, Tiredness, Toothpaste, TV show, Vacation, Vomit, What To Expect When You're Expecting | Leave a comment

Out of the Woods

Posted on May 30, 2013 by carilynn27

Out of the Woods Out of the Woods: Tales of Resilient Teens was written by Hauser, Allen and Golden in 2008. Seventy deeply troubled teenagers spend weeks, months, even years on a locked psychiatric ward. They were not just failing … Continue reading →

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Posted in Health, Psychology | Tagged Abuse, agency, beauty, behavior, breakdown in coherence, coherence, Connection, dangerous, didn't shut off emotions, Divorce, Drugs, early parent loss, emptiness more dangerous than rage, Eva Golden, Faith, find your way out of the woods, Healthy, illness, in trouble with the law, Intelligence, isolation, Joseph P Allen, keep looking for love, learn from mistakes, make changes, Narrative, no one loved them unconditionally, Optimism, organized narrative, Out of the Woods: Tales of Resilient Teens, Poverty, Power, problems, psychiatric ward, Racism, Risk, risky, see in the dark, self-awarencess, Stuart Hauser, Sucidal, surf anger, survival skills, try new relationships, Unhealthy, unpredicable, Violenent, Wealth | Leave a comment

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