Love to Spare

There are three things that I’ve never really felt I had enough of:

time,
money, and
love.

And yet when I stop to notice, these three things are not lacking from my life so much as from my perception.
Could it be that I’ve been too ambitious? Thinking about it now, it feels like I’ve had [...]

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For reasons that are still kept secret from me, I spent the early years of my life in foster care. I was nearly five years old when I first remember meeting my mother. She picked up my sister and I from Manhattan and brought us out to Los Angeles. Whatever had happened in the past [...]

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This blog has been silent for awhile. First it was because I became busy with work; but the more time I spent away from this blog, the more I came to realize that it (I) was far off track. There’s certainly nothing wrong with discussing love; however, love is far more than words.
Over these [...]

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How do you define you? When someone asks you “to introduce yourself” what do you typically say? Do you talk about:

your profession, job title, or financial status?
your political or religious affiliations?
your level of education or expertise?
your skin color or ethnicity?
your regional or national origins?
your age, gender or sexual preference?
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Love Challenge #2 was directed at the men; 5 stepped up to the plate and answered the challenge: Ian, Roger, Albert, Gwynn, and Jeff. Thank you all for your responses, we enjoyed and appreciated your participation.
Before announcing the winners, I’d like to take a moment to share my thoughts on why this type of exercise [...]

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Dear Reader,
Please note that Love to Spare is adopting a new look and a slightly new direction. Both changes are the result of my brief hiatus away from blogging (practically a whole week) and a reconsideration of the question: why did I start Love to Spare in the first place?
The original intent of this blog [...]

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Millions of people around the world are commemorating Pesach, the Feast of Freedom, also known as Passover. When the Jews left Egypt in a hurry, they were unable to take time to leaven the bread before baking. In remembrance, during Passover, Jews voluntarily forgo leavened bread and other wheat products; other grains and grain by-products, [...]

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My love affair with chocolate began relatively late - in my early teenage years. As a young girl growing up in Guyana, South America, I simply had little access to chocolate. Although cocoa trees are plentiful in the rainforest which covers 80% of the country, international trade rules prohibited our country from producing finished chocolate, [...]

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This week’s Love Challenge is for the guys (again, you don’t have to be married to answer):
Okay guys: Your wife, Karen, doesn’t get along well with your mother. In fact, Karen always complains of terrible headaches after spending even a few hours around your mom. You, of course, love your mom and would like very [...]

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Sorry for the late announcement on this. For some reason I thought we were supposed to announce the winners on Tuesday. Oops. I’ll do better next time - I promise.
So onto the winners then:
We got a lot of great responses (see Love Challenge #1). Thanks to all who participated.
I had planned to address what I [...]

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