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5 reasons you should take a cruise for your next vacation

January 27, 2020 By Carol Cassara 4 Comments

cruise-vacation

I wasn't always a cruiser. Oh, I went to Alaska in 2002 with a girlfriend on a big cruise ship with a couple thousand passengers. I didn't dislike it but I didn't fall in love with that cruise vacation. Or cruising in general. It was my husband, an experienced ocean cruiser, who introduced me to . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Reviews, Trippin' Tagged With: cruise

How to make & use an effective vision board

January 20, 2020 By Carol Cassara 7 Comments

Oh, I know, vision boards may seem kind of, well, ethereal. Are they worth making? Do they really work? And how the heck do I create one? First, I'll confess that I've been making vision boards for nearly two decades and yes, they work. Yes yes yes. They work because the act of making one, of . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Reviews Tagged With: Books, vision board

When did we lose our sense of humor?

January 6, 2020 By Carol Cassara 26 Comments

weight-of-the-world

When did we become so grey and humorless-- --when did we become people who carry the weight of the world on our shoulders --all of it--taking ourselves and everything around us far too seriously? I can hear the click of outraged responses on social media now. But hey, take a moment to hear me . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Reviews Tagged With: opinion, Opinions

How the left is turning on itself

October 17, 2019 By Carol Cassara 5 Comments

Bill-Mahar

It's clear that the left is turning on itself. Eating its young, so to speak. And eating its old, too. Consuming everyone on its own side. That splintering of what should be a unified force is why that awful man in the Oval could very well get re-elected. But that could be too nuanced for many to . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Reviews Tagged With: opinion, Politics

How did we become a Lord of the Flies society?

October 10, 2019 By Carol Cassara 7 Comments

Lord-of-the-Flies

I know someone who believed the world was just like the island society depicted in the 1954 novel, Lord of the Flies. In that novel, boys turned on each other with savagery that is incredibly primal. Left on their own, people will default to cruelty, my friend believed; it's unavoidable. Human . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Reviews Tagged With: Social Media

Is Facebook dangerous?

September 26, 2019 By Carol Cassara 7 Comments

Facebook-danger

Living as I do fairly near Facebook I've watched the company grow and develop. Can't say Mark Z comes out looking good around here. He's not considered the visionary Steve Jobs was, nor is he beloved in any way despite many big charitable donations in the Bay area. People around these parts are wary . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Reviews Tagged With: Social Media

Why Twisted Family Values should be your next fun read

September 3, 2019 By Carol Cassara Leave a Comment

twisted-family-values

The author had me at the title. I thought my family was twisted. But this one? Made mine look normal! With privilege comes amazingly twisted flaws, and also the strange tone-deafness of the entitled--and this novel's characters really bring those factors to the forefront. Which makes it fun . . .

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How to save time this summer with our definitive summer gift guide

July 8, 2019 By Carol Cassara 3 Comments

summer-gift-guide

You've probably got a summer gift list, right?  Birthday gifts, hostess gifts, just-because gifts--even condolence and get well gifts. Time to find just the right thing? You don't have it. You'd like to find just the right gift but maybe you've got a lot going on this summer and time to shop isn't . . .

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Filed Under: A Healing Spirit, Reviews Tagged With: Gifts, Homemade Gifts

The sad decline of an icon of our generation

June 21, 2019 By Carol Cassara 2 Comments

Peter Max

It was an evening in 2003 and my BFF, her husband and mine joined me at a local art gallery to see an exhibition by the Boomer-era pop artist, Peter Max, and to meet him. He was delightful. Max is best-known for his pop art depictions of the flag, the Statue of Liberty and other more commercial . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Reviews Tagged With: Art, opinion

Welcome to Crazytown, USA

June 4, 2019 By Carol Cassara 6 Comments

crazytown

Welcome to Crazytown, USA. We live in interesting times, as the Chinese proverb says. Maybe too interesting, if you ask me. Some strange, strange stuff going on. I blame Facebook. Why not? They're a perfect target. Anyone with an account can vomit up their thoughts and like upchuck, it ain't . . .

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Filed Under: Blog, Reviews Tagged With: feminism, Opinions, Politics

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