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Encouraging Literacy
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Body Confusion
“If you can’t be at home in your body, where are you supposed to go?” ~ Marilyn Wann Please spend some time viewing/listening to Marilyn Wann giving her presentation at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women on “Fighting Fat Fear During the War on “Obesity”.
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My First Writer’s Conference
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Something to Think About…
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.” ~ Buddha
