Taking on a new position

By Anita Horsley | February 7, 2010 | 1 Comments

I am taking the risk of taking on another responsibility at work. I am taking a class next week for the incident management team public information officer. This is a class with very experienced fire officer’s who work on large incidents and I have never done this position before. So I am trying to take [...]

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Anita Horsley lives in Eugene, OR with her life partner of 9 years. She works for the Oregon State Fire Marshal office as a training & development specialist and was a firefighter for 10 years prior to that. She won the World Champion firefighter combat challenge in 2005 in addition to the State and National championship 2004-2006. She loves the outdoors, running in the woods with her dogs and traveling. Visit Anita's website.

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Living Into New Skin

By Janie Cook | February 6, 2010 | 2 Comments

Well, I did it. I actually submitted an article for publication.
I’ve thought about doing this, talked about doing this, imagined myself doing this for years and suddenly one day last October, I did it. I’m not sure what made the difference. I had just given a presentation telling about my experience of grief over the [...]

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Janie Cook is a retired teacher who lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, Gareth. She shares her days with family and friends (a precious privilege), facilitates a bereaved parents’ support group and enjoys digging in the Texas Hill Country dirt & learning about natural gardening.

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Redacted

By Janet K. Carter | February 5, 2010 | 1 Comments

I have taken many risks today. One, was being honest with myself and the president of the company I work for, no matter the consequences. Another was blogging about it. I’ve since re-thought that risk and have decided to retract it.
It’s been a long, rough workweek and I’ll admit it – I have a serious [...]

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Janet K. Carter is a creative and versatile marketing professional with fifteen years experience in marketing/marketing operations. She is currently seeking opportunities for meaningful employment with an organization where her skills and experience will be put to work towards improving environmental and/or social conditions. Connect with Janet at LinkedIn.

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Five Things I Learned from Pursuing My Daily Audacious Goal

By Kory Wells | February 4, 2010 | 6 Comments

As I blogged last month, on January 4th I set the daily audacious goal of writing or editing a poem 5 days a week until today, February 4th. Meeting my goal would mean I’d have 23 new or revised poems by today. The actual count as of today: 16. You – or I – could [...]

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Kory Wells would like to say she brazenly tossed aside her twenty-year career as a software developer to forge a lucrative career in poetry. She’s content to report that she now writes poetry, prose, corporate communications, and the occasional snippet of software code in a life-work balance that functions pretty well most of the time. Author of the poetry collection Heaven Was the Moon, she’s been recognized by Ladies’ Home Journal for her “standout” writing in the anthology She’s Such a Geek. Visit Kory's website.

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As Is

By Andrea Lea | February 3, 2010 | 7 Comments

Last night I had a gentle aha moment… usually they slam into me and I am juiced and invigorated by the energy of them, but this was different. It kind of slid in like mud under a closed door. I was feeling resistant to it and defeated by it – it felt like [...]

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Andrea Lea is a writer who is cracking the code of the symbolic and recording the spiritually hilarious. Her adventures so far have included several years and a cooking show in post-Apartheid South Africa, a stint in rural south Georgia, a brief but sparkling singing career which she intends to revive, and a glorious indigo daughter named Dom. When she's not painting, taking photos, writing, singing, or doing laundry, Andrea can be found in her kitchen, channeling her grandmother through new recipes, and feeding folks.

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Can I Risk Following the Rules?

By Melissa Dickson Blackburn | February 1, 2010 | 1 Comments

I am taking the risk of following one rule this morning. I’m writing my blog – even though it might not be a very good one. And I guess the second risk I’m taking is simply to ask the question, “What are the rules I need to follow? And what will I gain? What will I lose?”

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Melissa Dickson Blackburn is a Mother, Poet, Visual Artist, Blogger, Marketing Director. MFA Poetry candidate at Converse College. MFA, Painting from SVA, NYC 1995.

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The Risk of Giving (and Receiving)

By Dawna Wade | January 31, 2010 | 3 Comments

I was recently made aware of a woman, Cami Walker, who was given a spiritual prescription for her rather severe Multiple Sclerosis:  to give away 29 gifts in 29 days.  I’ve looked at her website (http://www.29gifts.org/), watched a couple of You Tube videos by/about/with her (you can find them at http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=29+gifts&search_type=&aq=f), and have felt very inspired [...]

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Dawna Wade is a Certified Spiritual Counselor and Spirit Coach, an Angel Therapy Practitioner and a Certified Hypnotherapist. She is well equipped to be your spiritual coach, psychic counselor, clairvoyant, medium, and your intuitive guide through the spiritual world. She would love to help you along your spiritual path. Visit Dawna's website.

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The Point, Actually

By Gwen Hughes | January 30, 2010 | 2 Comments

If I am not going to change the world in a big way, what’s a small thing I can do to get outta the weeds?

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Gwen Hughes was voted “Favorite Jazz Artist” (Creative Loafing), and has sung anywhere they will let her for over a decade. NARAS Board Governor 2008-2010, serving on Membership Committee, GA Music Advisory Committee; Advisory Board member, GOC Music/The Lowery Group; recent tours in Eastern Europe and North Africa created music clinics for children & adults, as well as concerts with local musicians in the regions; named Artist in Residence, GA Music Hall of Fame, 2009; bandleader, RETRO JAZZ KATS and CONTINENTAL DANCE ORCHESTRA, playing 200 dates a year; 5 albums on FAIRFIELD RECORDS, with placement in film, television and online media. Visit Gwen's website.

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You Gotta Know When To Hold ‘Em, When To Fold ‘Em

By Kitty Karn | January 29, 2010 | 3 Comments

Oh my! Is it time to blog again? Where did the time go? What risks did I take?
Here are a few:
1) I risked embarrassment by bearing my soul to some of my colleagues.
2) Instead of being my usual accommodating self, I risked being harshly assessed by telling three of my students they could not change [...]

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Kitty Karn risked it ALL and moved to the cornfields of West Central Illinois where she found her dream man and her dream job. She can hardly wait to see what the Universe has in store for the rest of her life and is even more excited to see what happens on everyone else's journeys!! Let's share in each other's joys and sorrows.

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Death by self-abandonment? I think not.

By Laura Biering | January 26, 2010 | 7 Comments

Finally, at the ripe old age of 49, I am coming to see my life as a series of realizations (that being a realization in itself). It used to be that, when I learned something new, I would shame and blame myself for not having already known it. Sometimes, in my inability to “be with [...]

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Laura Biering has an infectious zeal for coaching people who want to do enlivening work and live inspired lives. She's fired up about the power of taking risks - great and small - and the rewards that come as a result. She's also passionate about (1) creativity and authenticity and their potential to change the world, (2) frolicking with her adorable four-legged children, and (3) retreating with those she loves at her farm in Southeast Georgia, Brinson's Race.

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