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Grandma Chonga’s Salsa-Que

When my husband and I tasted the Grandma Chonga’s salsas last month, we enjoyed them all (we didn’t try the really spicy one), but our eyes especially widened for Salsa-Que.
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The Story of Stuff

Five years and 40 million views later, The Story of Stuff is a Community of 500,000 changemakers worldwide, working to build a more healthy and just planet.
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Public Failure

Failing happens to us all, and can often lead to other successes and wins...
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Day 2 of Gratitude

Today’s gratitude theme is: WHO DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN NEVER REPAY? Wow. Well that definitely made me think.
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My 21-Day Gratitude Challenge, Day 1

How amazing that something so simple as gratitude can start out my day with a smile… and yours, too!
It isn’t too late to sign up and be reminded daily to feel and share the power of gratitude. Imagine all of our consciousness of appreciation joining together for 21 whole days! We are so powerful!
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The Divided Brain

While our brains are indeed divided, it is not in the “reason” vs. “creative” sort of way, but more in a “bigger picture” vs. “detailed focus” way. In addition, they go on to explain how our frontal lobe’s primary purpose is to inhibit. Inhibit what? Take the less-than twelve minutes and find out!
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F*$% S#!@ Stack

I just love this video! And Reggie Watts!
WARNING: PARENTAL ADVISORY!! LOTS AND LOTS OF CURSING!
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The Benefits of Unschooling

Imagine with me, if you will, a spectrum of homeschoolers. On one side (one...
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Happiness vs. Stuff

Surrounded in a sea of thoughts and ideas, we all have been bombarded with the idea that the more “stuff” we have, the happier we’ll be. That those poor people in those countries where they live without electricity have no idea what they’re missing here “in the land of the free.”
Yet, in one of my favorite reads online, Why Having More No Longer Make Us Happy points out just how false of an assumption this is.