Get Your Graffiti On! – Chalk the Walk 2012
It’s that time of year again with my second-favorite festival in Mount Vernon: Chalk the Walk! Live musicians, local food vendors, and artists flock to the streets during the festival where chalk panels are sketched and blended on our temporarily-closed main street. The community gets together and for 10 bucks a square, you get a box of chalk and a small part of a huge art piece to do your thing. In the end, the patchwork panel (too large to really comprehend on street-level) is completed...
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I’ve been working hard the last few days to get EmSun’s reality lined up with my vision. I think I’m a lot closer to how I see it with this new site update. You’ll notice that the layout is different, www.emsun.org is the domain (instead of www.emeraldsunshine.org – although that refers back to emsun.org), and the home page is no longer the blog. I have big changes coming in my life and I needed the homepage space for different projects. Most of your links should...
Read MoreBetter than The Hunger Games: Review of First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung [Harper Perennial]
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First They Killed My Father Loung Ung Published by Harper Perennial Released on April 4, 2006 978-0-06-085626-7 I’m not entirely certain what I expected, but what I got was not it. Instead, I got so much more. Fictional Hunger Games move over, because this haunting memoir will really tell you of pain and suffering by digging deep into the depths of your empathy, affecting your heart and soul. Loung Ung, the author, tells a story of desperation, despair, and the true darkness of...
Read MoreSurprising and Sad: Review of This Life is in Your Hands by Melissa Coleman [Harper Perennial]
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I did not realize that Melissa Coleman was the daughter of four-season farming guru Eliot Coleman until almost 300 pages into the book. While it is embarrassing for me to admit this, I also believe in telling the truth - faults and all. Once I realized this, I had to laugh since I had Four-Season Harvest
Splish, Splash Water Play
Four children are currently living with me. Denny, my teenage brother, moved out and left Aaron and me with the following ages: (almost) eight, (almost) six, four, and two. I’m also sixteen weeks pregnant (yeah!) which apparently means that I’m cranky and have less energy than usual. Let me just say that there is a difference between 19, pregnant, and alone and 28, pregnant, and four other kids. I’ve been looking for things for all these kids to do this summer so that I can...
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