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Grief is like a rip tide. From the shore, the ocean looks calm and placid. Then you get the call and you jump in. In 1990, I believed in life and divine intervention so I jumped into Costa Rica but before I did , I got another call that would impact my life and my…
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Taking high school Chemistry 101, I barely passed with a D. Now here I was gainfully employed at Leslie Ellen’s Nail Boutique soon fast becoming an alchemist. Graduation was quick and I mastered it. Mixing powder polymers with liquid monomers I learned how to sculpt an acrylic fingernail. Key to the success of mastering this…
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Trains, Passports and Coffee Beans
Grief is like a rip tide. From the shore, the ocean looks calm and placid. Then you get the call and you jump in. In 1990, I believed in life and divine intervention so I jumped into Costa Rica but before I did , I got another call that would impact my life and my… Read.
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Chemistry 101…
Taking high school Chemistry 101, I barely passed with a D. Now here I was gainfully employed at Leslie Ellen’s Nail Boutique soon fast becoming an alchemist. Graduation was quick and I mastered it. Mixing powder polymers with liquid monomers I learned how to sculpt an acrylic fingernail. Key to the success of mastering this… Read.
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Political Polish line up
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Bunkie…
In Season 2, Episode 3 the Maine Cabin Masters were in Rome, Maine at the former estate of Elizabeth Arden. Elizabeth Arden founded the Red Door Salon in New York in 1910. When her first business partnership ended in 1909, she wanted to have a trade name so she chose the last name Arden from… Read.
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In the beginning…
Born last century, last millennial then came breast cancer, then COVID and finally the closing of my business of 31 years, Downtown Day Spa Santa Fe.Over the last few months of the New Year, I was gifted items symbolic of blessing the launch of a new project. First from Minnesota was sage stick, incense and… Read.
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A Memoir of a Nail and Who Shaped It…
”She left her long, white, frosted fingernails” is how the 1968 Class Will of Windsor Locks High School read. Now 57 years after, I wish to revisit those historical pages of the one sided Main Street and change that dialogue with FILED AWAY, MY NAIL ENCOUNTERS. How did a kid from immigrant parents go from… Read.
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