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1. A Disabled Little Girl There once was a little girl, in her twenties and in a wheelchair. She was pretty. So very, very pretty. But as she was disabled, young and old, handsome and otherwise men with no prospects in life would apply for the job of taking care of her - and ... Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Humanities ]
2. A Solution Polynesian, European and Seasonal My petite, hyperactive daughter is what I call our Christmas present from God. That’s because my husband was raised Jewish, but is Polynesian, which means he was supposed to be Catholic. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Parenting ]
3. About a Real Saint Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway of 1979 for opening missions all over the world, teaching people about helping the poorest of the poor, and traveling around the world herself to help these people. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ History ]
4. About Bill Gates Opening slowly to the Internet are the big Windows
of chaos's charms and the sparks of bright desires. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Poetry ]
5. About Watergate The tears I shed for the dead victims were real, but Watergate, Watergate in the end,is how I inevitably feel. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Poetry ]
6. Arthritis - Can it be Prevented? This article is about how arthritis affects people’s lives. It bends them, it twists them and shapes their bodies into articulations of hideous pain. It’s now on the news, and it’s more serious than hell on Earth. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Disease & Illness ]
7. Autumn Leaves Never Die Dancing, prancing, floating leaves excite my sight
Cascading down in wet sheets like chunky rain. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Poetry ]
8. Back to School Safety Often, children are at risk from things like cell phones. However, this article is about how children are being kept from helping themselves by items such as their playgrounds and their clothing, and how various government agencies can help. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Miscellaneous Home & Family ]
9. Beautiful City/Beautiful Ciudad Tennyson wrote this centuries or so ago. It seemed timeless, so I decided to try to make an updated version of my own with the same original spirit that Sir Alfred managed to put into it...somehow. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Poetry ]
12. Brother Malcolm X Shabazz He was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, and he was assassinated on February 21, 1965, when he was only 39 years old, the same age as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was when he was assassinated. Malcolm X, however, was a few years older than ... Read more... Karen Peralta - Dec 23, 2007
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[ Miscellaneous Politics ]
13. Cheap Ghost Writing Isn’t Easy - But It’s Worthwhile! This article is about how ghost writing is a developable field. Most people seem to think it is solely about hiding the ghost writer, making money, or otherwise pushing around extremely talented writers. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Copywriting ]
14. Chief Sealth and the Independent Living Movement OUR Center Park of the City of Seattle, named after local Native American leader Chief Sealth, was founded by “Our Lady” Ida May Daly. This wheelchair using soul had a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, or MS. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Current Events ]
15. Don’t Drink Your Calories! This article covers problems handling soda pop and other such “beverages” that require serious improvement before they cease being such a health risk to children, adults and minority groups. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Nutrition ]
16. Eat Your Carbs, They’re Good for You This article covers how carbohydrates take cover in your system, intertwine with proteins, and otherwise hobnob with your insides, making sure that you will avoid the tendency to handle only proteins. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Nutrition ]
17. Fanfiction: A Most Genre-ous Offer Slow pan right to the usual eerie shot of Rod Sterling, in color this time, standing there with that maddening know-it-all smirk on his face.)
...what happens when someone crosses the line into the reality of her wildest dreams, only to find that ... Read more... Karen Peralta - Dec 23, 2007
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[ Humanities ]
18. Food Poisoning - An Overview This article describes food poisoning in its many variegated glory and how it offers no easy way out for those who do not listen carefully to its food preparation guidelines. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Miscellaneous Health & Fitness ]
19. Gardening Tips and Tricks for Late Autumn Once it gets around fall time, it’s time to begin pullin’ up that chair to the fireplace and drink your boiling warm tea. But there are many other things on the horizon, things that require your attention in the autumn. Read more... Karen Peralta - Dec 23, 2007
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[ Gardening ]
20. Herman the Fool A dummy sits on the shelf, broken, twisted, its life deformed by the many obstacles it has faced. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Humanities ]
21. How a Head Cold Got Me Married Now that I’m really settled down for bad or good, I can’t help but reflect on my lengthy past as a happy-go-lucky single. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Humor ]
22. How Much Protein Should You Eat? The best method would involve a way to turn from those hard to combat high protein diets, as the grocery stores are starting to get stuffed full of them. Basically, you need a relatively stable balance of proteins, carbs and fats in your daily diet. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Nutrition ]
23. I Met Dr. King and Malcolm X at the Seattle World’s Fair The following events seem dreamlike to me, but I remember them all quite well, as young as I was at the time. I’m now 47 years old, and was a little over one year of age when my Mom told me that the famous Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X ... Read more... Karen Peralta - Dec 23, 2007
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[ Humanities ]
24. I Wish It Could Have Been Otherwise The point is that you’re not supposed to judge my character by this brief essay. I just had a life, I’m still having one, and I’m learning to party down at the end of this article. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Inspirational ]
25. If Puget Sound is Falling Down This article won awards for featuring what you should do before, during and after an earthquake. Largely, fall down on the floor, get in a doorway, and cover up - that sort of thing. It might help to be concerned about your surroundings. Read more... Karen Peralta - Dec 23, 2007
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[ Science ]
26. LARGE Death Concentration Camps It is not us to blame you see for it - but how can we
Ever oppose them; well, I say, write your congress! Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Poetry ]
27. Manuscript Book Ghost Writers & Copy Editors Would you like to make better money with a writing career? Perhaps you are already a book author or writer, or you sometimes work for newspapers and magazines, are a regular writer and updater of website copy, or you perform in some other paying ... Read more... Karen Peralta - Dec 23, 2007
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[ Copywriting ]
28. Messing Up My Life You’d like to think you’re normal, and always
Forever young, forever unchallenged by fate... Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Poetry ]
29. Mrs. Coretta Scott King Mrs. Coretta Scott King (born April 27, 1927, died January 30, 2006) was a noted civil rights leader, widow of the slain Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She founded the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia, in his name. Read more... Karen Peralta - Dec 23, 2007
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[ Miscellaneous Politics ]
30. My Word Program I get a lot of gestalt and circumstance when I'm on the computer, which is the main love of my life nowadays, and I have to work hard to come up with new material in order to create new poems. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Poetry ]
31. On File With You I wonder ‘bout the ‘you all.’ You can’t be real; you're all pink all over or under and so that's the way I feel. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Poetry ]
33. Roses of Sharon I wrote this poem in honor of any non-Japanese who kept Japanese-American property safe on Bainbridge Island, WA, during the WWII Japanese-American
Internment. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Poetry ]
34. Saskatchewan Dreams Giant spewing Rainier made a low noise appearing
At the edge of this Spartan and lonely old sound. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Poetry ]
35. School Yourself in the Writing Field The thing to do mostly is to cram down as many books and as much writing as humanly possible, so that it enters your consciousness and causes you to think and thus to write creatively. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Writing ]
36. Segregation in Sixty-Seven When things were religiously, sexually and racially segregated, to the point of all obscurity, and nothing was real, nothing was right, and the world was upside down. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ History ]
37. Simple Rules for Personal Health and Hygiene Have you been following a plan for your own personal hygiene, or do you get up in the morning, take a bath, brush and blow dry your hair, use the bathroom through the day, and go to bed at night? If you only do the latter, you need to put more ... Read more... Karen Peralta - Dec 23, 2007
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[ Beauty ]
38. Sister Betty X Shabazz Betty X (born Betty Jean Sanders) lived from May 28, 1936 to June 23, 1997. The widow of civil rights leader Malcolm X, she died three weeks after being severely burned in a fire allegedly set by her 12-year-old grandson. Shabazz's funeral service ... Read more... Karen Peralta - Dec 23, 2007
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[ Miscellaneous Politics ]
39. Stress Management: Medical Risks of Stress Stress management is a growing field. I would avoid the pills if I were you, but what you need to do is look into it and see what anti stress killing “tactics” you are pulling to make sure your life is a mess. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Miscellaneous Health & Fitness ]
40. The Amazing Hotel Towel By the way - I’m not racist. And life itself is extremely sexist. Our Baptist Church was colored only, and we worked very hard for civil rights during those times, but hardly at all for women’s rights. This story is partly about that silent and much ... Read more... Karen Peralta - Dec 23, 2007
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[ Humanities ]
42. The Death Defying Warehouse Party Life This article details life at warehouse parties – IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN BY LOUD – and says the effects of deafness are nonexistent at the start. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Music ]
43. The Incredible Transition of the Movement A long time ago in the fabled southlands of America, the authorities told black people they had to use the “colored” restrooms - not the “white” people ones. It was thought at the time that “mixing the races” would lead to rape, diseases or other ... Read more... Karen Peralta - Dec 23, 2007
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[ History ]
44. The Independent Living Movement I I will start off by informing you that there is no real difference between the words “disabled” and “handicapped,” except for the linguistic ones. They both refer to physically challenged people, who often need special living accommodations. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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45. The Independent Living Movement II What is the Independent Living Movement in Seattle, WA, the USA about? It and the aspects of it with which I was involved have changed, somewhat, from what I saw when there at Center Park. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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46. The Last of a Dying Breed Right here in downtown Seattle are half a dozen old-time newsstands, the kind that tend to be made of wood and painted green or brown, with a simple roof for shelter in a downpour, and a hard-edged lean-to look. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Current Events ]
47. The Physically Challenged I Do you think if you knew your life was short, you would bother to help others? At the most, your place would not be there - ere long. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ History ]
48. The Physically Challenged II I and my husband once worked as nurse aides at the first apartment building in the nation built specifically for people in wheelchairs, Center Park, which shares the same initials as cerebral palsy, one of the world’s most common severe physical ... Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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49. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968) was a man given a googolplex of titles from a wide variety of sources, including many world human rights organizations and grateful American southern universities. But his ... Read more... Karen Peralta - Dec 23, 2007
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[ Miscellaneous Politics ]
50. Weight Gain in Adulthood - Slow it Down American weight gain when you grow up is pitiless. You don’t need a makeover - and you don’t need to be “skinny.” You need to risk life, have a thrill with “fun” exercise involved, go out, get out - and dance! Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Weight Loss ]
51. Woes = Two Dozen Bears What is the real value of your own life, and other people’s? Is it the right thing, to risk your life’s blood to stop a bear attack, when no one cares? Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Poetry ]
53. Writing is an Art Form Writing is something you can just rattle off. It’s something you can make a coffee table book from, too. But if you go for only money, chances are, you will only host celebrities. Read more... Karen Peralta - Oct 08, 2007
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[ Writing ]
54. You Are NOT “Disabled, Too!” I meant it when I said to you that disability is
Not a “state of mind,” nor spirit, nor emotion. Read more... Karen Peralta - Dec 23, 2007
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[ Poetry ]
55. You Need XML Codes to Promote Your Website This information may be dated, but it’s still worth working from, I believe, due to XML code still being worthwhile and used. I believe there has been some movement away from the material in this article, not due to its being faulty, but because it ... Read more... Karen Peralta - Dec 23, 2007
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