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Is Big Brother Freeway Marketing?
Data about a typical American is collected in more than 20 different ways during daily activities, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. (WSJ link) Add driving to the list. Drug dogs and inquiring border agents at Mexican and Canadian borders aren’t the only tools used to take a glimpse into your confidentiality, as cameras…
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Dated Doorbell
Old architecture is like eye-candy for me. Things from the past make me feel insignificant. I dig that. Home #2 on the Baltimore tour presents a delicious, antique doorbell within its purple door. I researched the date on the bell and believe it to be an 1891 rotary doorbell. The electric doorbell was invented by…
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Fells Point fire
A helicopter circled my house Monday. All day. Relentlessly. The loud sound of the blades chopping the air actually started to frustrate me so I set out on the street to see what was going on. I’m curious like that. Traffic was stopped and Baltimoreans covered the sidewalks. Seeing this many people out on the…
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Baltimore BBQ
Since living in eclectic Fell’s Point located in downtown Baltimore, every morning I step out on my front stoop to the smell of fresh cooked cinnamon bread assaulting my nostrils. At first I assumed it was the local breakfast diner across the street. And then it happened. I spotted the perpetrator. A bread factory that takes up…
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American Highways and The Outlaws That Remain in Arizona
Outlaws don’t just exist in the old west; they’re unnoticed throughout the highways. On the military grounds of Fort Riley in Kansas, Doug Smith backs his bright-yellow rig into a dark cave where his enormous glass windows are blacked out with material so he can’t see anything that is going on and is ordered to…
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DIY Jerky from the Meat Shop
I found a bang’n deal at the Goodwill the other day I couldn’t pass up. There on the shelf sat a $7 dollar newish dehydrator. I brought it home, cleaned it thoroughly and christened it with my first food: beef jerky. Although, I mainly bought the thing to dry my garden herbs I was excited…
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DIY Recycled Crayons
Most restaurants provide my 2-year-old crayons as a distraction while we attempt to eat . Due to the kind gesture, I end up with countless colors under the couch, at the bottom of my purse and scattered throughout the car. Instead of storing scores of broken crayons in a lonely kitchen drawer I create an imaginative, clever crayon for my toddler.…
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The Truth About Water Bottles & Tap Water
Living in the Arizona desert makes bottled water an exceedingly popular and convenient product, but while plastic water bottles offer convenience, they also create unnecessary waste within our environment and landfills. I recently completed a state-wide brochure informing Arizonians why water bottles are killing our planet. I am so passionate about the subject that I…
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Down To Yurt
A family vacation turns out to be quite the experience. We drove up the snake-like road that hugged the fuzzy mountainside toward the Rattle Snake Canyon wildlife reservation. The soft, rolling hills stood like grassy ant piles around us in varies shades of green. The brush was thin and the wind constantly robust. A large…
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Do you love potato chips??? Of course you do unless you’re some kind of freak or something.
Wondering what to do with that green, awkward-looking kale leaf? Whether it’s growing in your garden or staring at you from across the grocery store, kale can be transformed into the tastiest and healthiest chip you can imagine. Most weekends, I shop at my local farmers market in downtown Phoenix and started noticing people selling…
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