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It's All a Matter of Perspective: Mine

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This blog is 99.3% truth, .7% blatant lies. Somewhere in between lies my perspective on life.

Added on: Jul 25th, 2009
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Holly Jahangiri
Listed in: Personal Writing
Tags: travel books parenting Opinion author children's books

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Monday News & Views

Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 00:00 in Uncategorized, featured, headline

Missing! Have You Seen this Blogger? Mairzy Dotes and Dozy Dotes: This Just in, and It’s a Doozy! (FB) – Pre-eminent blogger Jan Geronimo of WritingToExhale.com has been reported missing by worried friends and colleagues. He was last se...
Balut (Rhymes with “Foot”)

Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 21:21 in recipes, asia, cooking, culinary, philippines, Uncategorized, featured, dare, headline, balut, fetal duck egg, world's most terrifying foods

I wonder if it’s a cultural thing, this aversion, fear, and loathing certain foods – like balut – can inspire. To some extent, I’m sure it is. Most of us are so far removed from our food sources that we don’t have to fac...
Delicious Irony: Mattel, Target, Wal-Mart Make Headlines Again

Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 09:01 in politics, health, children, disney, causes, barbie, recalls, lead, dora, dangerous toys, consumer product safety improvement act, cpsia

Delicious Irony: Mattel, Target, Wal-Mart make headlines – or should that be “leadlines”? – again In August, I asked “why did Mattel receive a waiver from CPSC that enabled it to test its own products for compliance with the Consumer Produc...
Copyright Essentials for Writers

Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 11:02 in education, artists, writing, writers, copyright, musicians, law, featured, dmca, plagiarism, headline, fair use

Copyright Essentials for Writers Twice in as many weeks, I have run across items that were clearly not written by the “writers” who claimed them as their own. I’ve had my writing stolen, “misappropriated,” used without my consent, and I�...
Saving Sammy: Curing the Boy Who Caught OCD (Book Review)

Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 18:00 in parenting, Mental Illness, book review, hope, ocd, infection, obsessive compulsive disorder, tourette's syndrome, strep, books and characters, beth alison maloney, saving sammy

Saving SammyStarting middle school is tough enough without adding mental illness to the mix. Beth Alison Maloney’s son Sammy – a bright, normal, happy kid just entering Sixth Grade – suddenly started exhibiting signs of severe Obsessive-Compuls...
Pre-order A Puppy, Not a Guppy

Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 21:18 in news, pets, featured, headline, guppies, fish stories, holly jahangiri, action needed, training pets, puppy not a guppy, books and characters

A Puppy, Not a Guppy can now be pre-ordered directly from 4RV Publishing! Inspired by the true story of my daughter’s unfulfilled dreams of owning a dog, A Puppy, Not a Guppy tells the story of a little girl who desperately wants a puppy she can ta...