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[18 Aug 2010 | Comments | ]
I’m in Cowgirl Heaven!!

Photo Courtesy (c) 2010 by David Foxhoven All rights reserved
I just finished writing an article for Trailer Life Magazine on a rapidly growing group of women called “Sisters On The Fly.” They are a group of women, married, single, widowed, divorced, heterosexual, lesbian and whatever, who buy old camping trailers, fix them up with a cowgirl theme and meet at rallies around the USA to laugh, drink Martinis and/or wine, fly-fish, go antiquing, do crafts or just hang out around the campfire with no men, boys or kids around. Adult …

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[2 Mar 2010 | Comments | ]
It’s In The Eyes

Christopher Scott Emmett was convicted in October 2001 of the April 27, 2001, capital murder and robbery of his co-worker, John Langley, in Danville, Virginia. On November 2, 2001, Emmett was sentenced to death. On May 30, 2007 I received word that I was one of the media selected to view Emmett’s execution on June 13. How does one prepare to view and cope with an execution? This is my journal of that journey. My thoughts about this are not right or wrong, they’re simply mine.
That paragraph was how I …

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[26 Jan 2010 | Comments | ]
Suze Orman, Van Dweller

Okay. It made my day. Suze Orman, internationally acclaimed financial wizard, Oprah money guru, and kick-ass woman, LIVED and WORKED out of a van in her 20’s. Just freaking made my day. Changed my whole attitude and perception of her as someone who “doesn’t understand us paycheck-to-paycheck” people.
And I quote, from her book Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
“I borrowed $1,500 from my brother to buy a Ford Econoline van and, with the help of my friend Mary Corlin (a great friend to this day), converted …

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[16 Dec 2009 | Comments | ]
It’s Not About The Money

When you do something famous, or different, or inspiring, people want you to write a book. But they want you write a book that “WILL SELL.” If you write something that only a few people will want, or can afford - what’s the use?
That’s the OLD way. That’s the way that suffocates. It’s the way that crushes spirit and destroys creativity. For months, more than a year actually, I’ve struggled with what “Staying Hungry” should be about. Everything everyone has told me it NEEDS to be, is really not …