It’s All Maya!

Patrick and I love watching The Amazing Race and every week Patrick ends up saying the same thing.  “Why don’t we apply for the Amazing Race?  We would be great at it!”
It’s true, between the two of us I think we would fare very well; we’ve been to over 80 countries, lived in 10 and […]

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I was on the phone with my brother a few days ago and he started telling me about a call he received!  My brother began his tale.  “The phone rang, so I answered it and said….”
Brother:  “Hello.”
Girl on the Phone:  “I am so angry, I bought a vibrator at your store and it doesn’t work!  […]

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You may be asking, didn’t we just have Friday the 13th last month?  Yep, and we’ll have another one in November!  For a lot of people it’s just another day, for others it’s a lucky day, and for the rest, it’s a day they would rather stay in bed and forget about! 
 Howard K. Stern, the former […]

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David Goldman needs your support this Saturday, March 14, 2009; a crucial day in which a planned demonstration is scheduled to take place.  As I mentioned in an earlier post, the date for the rally has been moved due to changes in the meeting between Brazilian President Lula da Silva and President Obama, so this is just a […]

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A nine year-old girl in Recife, Brazil was repeatedly raped by her step-father from the age of six and became impregnated with twins. The girl’s mother found out that her daughter was four months pregnant when the child complained of stomach pains.  The mother sought an abortion for her daughter which is illegal in Brazil […]

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Maya Muses:  No surprise that men and women remember different quotes from different films; afterall, men are from Mars and women are from Venus!  Is it any wonder then that the films playing at the local cinema theaters on both planets are definitely not the same?  Of course not!

Top 20 Film Quotes For Women

Love means […]

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I started reading a book called The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond at the same time that little Haleigh Cummings from Satsuma, Florida went missing.  The novel is about a young photographer, Abby Mason, engaged to be married to a great guy.  He lives with his beautiful young daughter, Emma, who is six.  In a […]

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I was in the shower this morning and one of my old boyfriends popped into my head.  R. was a really nice guy and I loved getting lost in his beautiful green eyes.  We had been going out for several weeks when one day I was walking down the street in my quartier near Mabillon.  (Let […]

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Maya Muses:   Looking for more storage space for all your recyclable bags?  Want to keep your potato chips fresh?  Or maybe you want to impress a dinner date?…..I’ve got useful and useless information for you!  I may add more to this list as time goes by.
Fold a Bag

Seal a Potato Chip Bag

Make a Rose Napkin

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If Helvecio Ribeiro (Bruna’s uncle) is the family spokesman for the Bianchi family, they better find themselves a new spokesman!  Last night on Larry King Mr. Ribeiro was giving his side of the story pertaining to the kidnapping of Sean Goldman!  Not only did Mr. Ribeiro, make slanderous allegations against David Goldman, questioning his morals […]

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