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Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Charles Worthington Volume & Bounce Texturising Spray
Charles Worthington Volume & Bounce Texturising Spray £6.99
If you saw my Boots Haul post last week then you will have already seen that I picked this up in their recent 3 for 2 deal. I had to search high and low to get my hands on this purpley pink bottle and it was definitely worth the hassle. There wasn't a single bottle left in either of my local Boots stores and at this point it was out of stock online too. I almost gave up on finding a bottle of this, especially during the busy 3 for 2 period, until I saw it was back in stock online where I quickly snapped it up.
I've been toying with the idea of purchasing a texturising spray ever since my hair started feeling a little lacklustre and limp over the past couple of months. Most sprays promising to add texture and volume to your hair are on the pricey side, to the say the least, so when I heard that this product promised to do precisely that for a fraction of the price of some of the other brands I had to track it down.
I apply this by spraying it to my roots with my head turned upside down, for added volume. It definitely gives my hair that much needed boost and holds it. The hold is akin to that of a hairspray but unlike your traditional hairspray it gave my hair a serious backcombed effect so it's certainly a case of it does what it says on the bottle. Even better than the volumising effect that it had on my hair was the texturising effect. My hair always feels very soft, fluffy and almost candy-floss-ish right after it dries naturally, making it pretty difficult to style and rather frizzy as a result. This gives me that second day hair feeling without making my hair feel sticky or greasy in the slightest.
At only £7.99 you really can't go wrong. I think I'll definitely be stocking up on the Volume & Bounce range while the 3 for 2 deal is still on. I really want to give the mousse, powder and creme a try as well. Three more possible candidates for the 3 for 2 deal? Hehe.
Have you tried this spray yet? If so, what did you think of it? Are there any other volumising and texturising sprays you've tried?
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So glad you reviewed this - was wondering whether to pick it up! I think I will :)ReplyDelete
No problem Amanda! I heard so much buzz around this product and I now know why as it was really impressive, especially for the price. Would love to hear what you think of it when you pick it up! :)Delete
I bought this recently too! How amazing is it!! I don't know how I haven't lived with a texturising spray until now, it makes a hell of a lot of difference to my hair! Great post!ReplyDelete
I know what you mean Jennie! :) I have no idea how I went so long without using a texturising spray!!Delete
Thank you so much lovely!
I love the sound of it and am so excited to try it :o). XxReplyDeleteReplies
I definitely think you'll love it Charlotte! :) Let me know if you try it out.Delete
Oooh I did see your Boots haul post so I was looking forward to a review of this...and it doesn't disappoint. It sounds like a great spray...just what I need since my hair is pretty long and often lacks in volume! Danielle xReplyDelete
Thanks so much Danielle! :) My hair was the exact same until now. Hehe.Delete
I recently did A review on oribe spray and its just so expensive for my budget might have to give this a try xxReplyDeleteReplies
I've heard it's a bit of a dupe for the Oribe spray so I would definitely give this a try for a cheaper alternative! :)Delete
I haven't tried this yet, but it's on my wishlist. At the moment, I'm using the L'Oreal TXT Volumising Spray at the moment which is pretty good too.ReplyDelete
Laura x | Life and LipstickReplies
I have my eye on the L'oreal spray too. Hehe. :) I'd love to see how it compares to this one.Delete
I'm definitely going to pick this up thank you for the review:)xReplyDelete
No problem Olivia! :)Delete
This sounds fab! I like extra volume on the crown of my head to hide my extensions so I'm gona try this! I use volume powder occasionally but I hate the feeling it leaves behind! XoReplyDelete
I would definitely try this Kirsty if you're looking for a little extra boost at the roots and the crown! :)Delete
I hadn't read any reviews on this yet but I've been debating it for ages... I think you might have just persuaded me to go for it :) xxReplyDelete
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Oooh definitely go for it Danielle! :) I'd been debating it for a little while and had to take advantage of the great 3 for 2 deal and I'm so glad I did.Delete
This sounds fab and definitely worth a try, I suffer with terribly flat hair and yet to find a product to work on it :-( fingers crossed xReplyDeleteReplies
I really hope it works on your lovely! :) Mines was really flat too before using this. Let me know how you get on if you do pick it up.Delete
Well I'm sold, was waiting for your review on this, no one has a negative thing to say about this, I'm defo after something that can add a little volume my hairs so flat! Nothing holds.. XReplyDelete
Aww thanks Rinica! :) I'd love to hear what you think of it when you get around to picking it up.Delete
This sounds really interesting and like something I'd love! Bargain too <3ReplyDelete
Jennie xo | sailorjennie.comReplies
It really is such a great price! :) I'd definitely recommend it.Delete
I've been looking for something like this so will definitely have to give this a go! XReplyDelete
Oh definitely Harriet! :)Delete
I picked this up last week after seeing it being mentioned as a bit of a dupe for the Oribe.ReplyDelete
I quite like it however it can leave a slightly crispy feeling if you use it a little too much.
Amy x | A Little Boat SailingReplies
I know what you mean about the crispy feeling but I try to limit how much I use to avoid that.Delete
I bloody LOVE this stuff! I now own 3 bottles of the stuff (all purchased on 3 for 2 in boots) Apparently its a great dupe for the Oribe one too :)ReplyDelete
Nicole xx
Hehe. Good plan Nicole! :) I've heard that too.Delete
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CHASETOWN created one of the biggest FA Cup upsets of recent times when they sent League One side Port Vale crashing out of the competition.
Substitute Danny Smith's 89th-minute wonder strike stunned Vale and booked an almost disbelieving Chasetown's place in the third round where the Southern Midland Division minnows will now entertain Championship side Cardiff City - Robbie Fowler and all.
Shocked Vale could have no complaints, especially after they twice failed to score from the penalty spot during the second-half exchanges of their second-round replay.
Instead Chasetown made light of the six levels and 108 places that separate the sides with hero goalkeeper Lee Evans rarely threatened.
Chasetown's central defensive trio of Chris Slater, Vaughan Thomas and Joe Williams coped with everything Vale could throw at them. But it was striker Smith who stole the headlines with his sensational winner.
He only entered the fray after 78 minutes when replacing fellow front-runner Dean Perrow.
With extra-time looking a certainty, Smith spectacularly threw himself at Kyle Perry's left-wing cross to bury the ball past a despairing Joe Anyon.
There was scant consolation for Vale. Just like their previous meeting, they made little, if any, impression in front of goal.
In a first half of few chances, Chasetown repelled everything Vale offered in attack. Twice Thomas made timely interceptions to snuff out striker Calum Willock when well placed to shoot.
The speedy Luke Rodgers often threatened to cut loose as well, but there was no end product to test Evans.
Yet Chasetown had their moments as well, especially when Mark Branch delivered two wicked inswinging corners that had Anyon at full stretch to punch clear.
The second half was a different story as Vale were twice awarded penalties.
The first arrived on 48 minutes when Thomas brought down Willock as the striker attempted to turn the defender.
Livewire striker Rodgers stepped up to take the spot kick, but smashed his effort against the crossbar and the ball rolled over to safety.
Referee Anthony Taylor then handed Vale a second penalty on 55 minutes after he judged that Thomas and Nick Hawkins had deliberately sandwiched Rodgers.
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This time Rodgers tried to place his shot, but was thwarted by Evans who dived low to push the ball out.
The save appeared to knock some of the stuffing out of Vale and the tie seemed destined for the extra period when Chasetown clinched victory.
Perry, who had worked tirelessly all evening, broke down the left flank and whipped in a low cross for Smith to throw himself forward and divert home.
The goal sparked most of the 2,000 spectators into frenzied celebrations. And even the prospect of four minutes of added time failed to daunt them. By that stage, Chasetown were in no mood to surrender the advantage and Vale never looked like prising it from them either.
CHASETOWN: Evans; J Branch, Slater, Thomas, Williams, M Branch, Hawkins (S Smith, 74), Steane, Holland, Perry, Perrow (D Smith, 78). Not used: Edwards, Spacey, Sargeant.
PORT VALE: Anyon; Lowe, Pilkington, McGregor, Talbot (Richards, 88), Laird, Rodgers, Harsley, Whitaker, Willock, Salmon. Not used: Martin, Miles, Glover, Lawrie.


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Microsoft, DAISY Consortium make 'reading' easier for visually disabledDecember 10th, 2007 - 4:06 pm ICT by admin
New Delhi, Dec 10 (ANI/Business Wire India): Microsoft Corp. and the Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) Consortium have announced a joint standards-based development project that will make it possible for computer users who are blind or print disabled to make better use of assistive technology in their daily lives.
The collaborating project will enable the translation of millions of Open XML documents into DAISY XML, the lingua franca for digital talking books. The free downloadable plug-in will released in early 2008.
In recent decades, individuals with print disabilities have increasingly accessed information using a wide variety of assistive technologies such as screen readers, large print, refreshable Braille and text-to-speech synthesizers.
However, because these individuals cannot visually navigate complex page layouts, they often struggle to keep up with the demands of today's information-rich society.
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An Indian member of the DAISY consortium, the National Association for Blind (NAB), has welcomed the initiative.
Dipendra Manocha, Director IT and Services, NAB and President of the DAISY Forum of India, said, "With the largest blind population in the world, India needs initiatives like these to redress the problems faced by the visually challenged. This tool addresses a compelling need of the visually impaired - in all walks of life - who have so far been losing out on the benefits of the information-age. The announcement is monumental: it provides a clear, production path for organizations and universities who will be able to use the Microsoft plug-in to move into DAISY XML. Putting tools in the hands of people who create content is a giant step toward creating equal access to information."
George Kerscher, Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium, added, "In our information age, access to information is a fundamental human right. This is why leading organizations of and for the blind throughout the world are committed to the advancement of the DAISY Standard. The ability to create DAISY content from millions of Open XML-based documents using this translator for Microsoft Office Word will offer substantial and immediate benefits to publishers, governments, corporations, educators and, most important, to everyone who loves to read."
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However, the 180 million blind or visually impaired people worldwide and the millions more who are otherwise print disabled, (unable to process text because of cognitive, learning, developmental, perceptual or physical disabilities) are deprived of all that rich visual data and that the information is one crude mass of undifferentiated text that they have to slog through sequentially in linear fashion from cover to cover.
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"This accessible technology is something that our customers have asked for, and we are pleased to be able to work collaboratively with the DAISY Consortium to realize this goal, Sanjay added.
DAISY material can be played on dedicated devices or on PCs by installing special software.
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"Consideration of special needs is an integral part of Microsoft's product design process. The Open XML-DAISY XML translator builds on Microsoft's long-standing commitment to promoting information access for users with disabilities. For users, the ability to "Save as DAISY" in Microsoft Office Word represents an important validation of disabled users' needs and sends a powerful message to society at large," said Sanjay.
Open XML adoption continues to expand across the software industry for use on various platforms that include Linux, Windows, Mac OS and the Palm OS.
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#1 I only get to have one DIL, and she's so wonderful, that's fine with me.
#2 She is 5'11. I love that I don't feel like an Amazon woman around her. (I'm 5'10.)
#3 She has big, beautiful brown eyes.
#4 She loves, loves beauty products, and is the 'queen' in that regard. If you want to know about beauty, fashion, trends, give her a call. She knows.
#5 She sends me fun, trendy gifts, sometimes for birthdays, sometimes just because. The fact that I'm 51 and wouldn't know cool if it bit me, it's nice she does and keeps me appropriately accessorized. I appreciate we both agree I'm beyond a toe ring.
#6 She has just enough fears to make my son feel all big and strong and protective.
#7 She isn't the least bit afraid of snakes, rodents, frogs, lizards, etc. This completely baffles me, and her sister-in-laws, Sarah and Leslie - esp. in light of #6.
#8 She can drive like nobody's business and knows her way to anywhere in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. If you're in Dallas and lost, call her. She can get you there.
#9 She hates germs, more than the average girl. Watching her open a bathroom door with her elbows is amazing.
#10 In light of #9, she's amazingly not a neatnik. That's good. If I had to clean house for her to come visit, I'd dread it. I don't and I don't.
#11 She isn't a dog person, has never had a dog that I know of, but tells my son he can have a dog, someday. A small dog. A non-drooling dog. But a dog.
#12 She knows her Bible. She was well-school in Scripture from early on. And it shows.
#13 She loves hymns and U2 - I love the contradiction of that. If I were to start singing any old hymn and couldn't remember the 2nd verse, she likely could.
#14 She loves sushi and doesn't mind that I think its horrifying.
#15 She thinks her husband - my only son - is handsome as heck. Mothers love that.
#16 She has the most teachable spirit. When life is hard, she's willing and able to see the lessons God has for her.
#17 When I've intruded (ahem . . . only a couple of times...) she accepted it with grace. I'm still new at having a DIL and need grace; appreciate grace.
#18 She shares her brother and sisters and mom with our family. When we're together it truly is like a big, happy family. Any of them could come stay with us and we'd love it. They would too.
#19 She cries, easily. And often. I love that she has a very tender heart.
#20 She calls me Beverly. Only a few people do that; I never introduce myself that way, but for some reason a few people call me that. I like it in her. It sounds nice with a Texas drawl.
#21 She phones me now and then just to talk. Like a daughter would. I'm so thankful for that.
#22 She doesn't phone me to complain about my son. I'm thankful for that too.
#23 She is fiercely loyal to her own family. She's the big sister, don't ya' know!
#24 She loves and respects her grandfather and grandmother, and they know it.
#25 She does the name "Mrs. Gibson" proud.
I honestly thought this would take me a bit to think on and they rolled right out, within a very few minutes. She is a gift - to my son, to our family. Happy, Happy Birthday, Janae. Hope it's great the whole live long day.
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Not that anyone will read this, all of you being busy with the Boo Tour of Homes, but just wanted to let you know we're headed out. In the Cub Sweetheart. In the pouring rain. We realized we could squeeze in a little camping trip before I head to Texas to help corral my favorite little people while Addison has her surgery.
So even though it truly is P.O.U.R.I.N.G. rain, (note photo with pools of it running down our driveway...) and is supposed to maybe keep pouring rain for the next 48 hours, we're going anyway. We've got leftover chili burros (recipe to follow someday - guarantee you'll love it),which I plan to zap in the microwave, we'll pop a DVD in the laptop, and veg. And yes, we call this camping. The smart kind.
We may not get to hike, build a fire, make smores or any of that campy kind of stuff, but there will be no phones ringing (cell doesnt get reception where we're headed), no bills to pay, no solicitors trying to sell me something I don't want, no grass to mow, laundry, vacuuming, yada yada yada. There will be the two of us, snuggled inside our little 20 feet of heaven, and we may not stick our noses out the entire time. Because while we do still love time together, we just found out last night one of my best friends in the whole wide world is dropping off, in the next hour, the FIRST SEASON OF 24 which we never got to see.
We're not even taking the bikes this time - books, movies, fattening food, each other. That's about it.
Doesn't take a lot to make me/us happy. I'll visit the rest of your homes when I get back to mine. xoxoxo
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This is the heart of our home. It's where we spend most of our time. Sitting here we can see straight out the front door or watch the birds at the feeders on the deck. It's gorgeous in winter to sit and watch the snow fall. We can easily grab some of those chairs at the counter and pull them up to the table. The more the merrier. If you eat at this table, you can't have a big aversion to consuming dog hair. We have quite a bit of that in our house. Golden retrievers are worth it, but they are hairy. We've had a lot of family memories, good and bad, right here at this table. I'll keep both.
I love to check out the fridge in someone's home; the outside, not the inside. It's where I head first when I'm visiting someone. Seeing family photos, jokes, etc. gives a glimpse of that family. If you zoom in on this you'll see some of our favorite people and animals. Who needs to check out a boring medicine cabinet (TMI!). I just want to see your kids, grandkids, etc. If you have an embarrassing appt. I promise not to notice. I have my own penciled in so don't zoom too much!
This is required equipment in our house. It has a timer and I lie in bed in the morning and wait to hear the four beeps that let me know it's all clear - I can head down. Starbucks, no creamer for me. That little square jar is Paula Deen seasoning. - It goes on everything so I just leave it out. I do have a good collection of Celestial Seasonings Tea if that's your preference. We aim to please around here. Lots of flavored creamers in the fridge door - my husband is NOT a coffee purist. The cutting board is a gift from my DIL, Janae, who is from Paris, Texas. Very cute I think.
This is the room we spend the other chunk of our time in. It's where reality TV happens, Saturday night Netflix and popcorn, football games, there's a big ole fireplace in the corner you can't see. The room used to be twice this big but just wasn't cozy so my sweet husband cut it down to size, and put in an office for me right behind it with sound-resistant walls for when he's watching something with the surround sound going. I'm not big on loud noises when I'm at my desk.If you look closely you'll see our four-legged child, Elway. He has the run of the house. A bit spoiled. (And did I mention hairy?)If you zoom you'll see that I didn't clean it for this photo. We always have dog toys out; he never learned to put them back (my sister's dog does this..) and there is ALWAYS a pile of papers to go through while we're watching TV at night, so I just left them there.
This is my blogging headequarters, aka my desk/bill paying center. You can't see the wall of quilting fabric and another with all my books. There's a TV with a built in VCR and DVD player that I actually know how to run across from my desk. I can pop in a (quiet) movie when I'm working at my desk. This is one of my favorite spots in the house. Since we don't really do anything in here it rarely gets messy or dirty. That's a blessing.
And finally, this is our little deck. It's not big, I wish it was screened in. However, it has the best view. This is where we check out all the wildlife that comes to visit. We can see our neighbor's son play with his new puppy, see kids running in the creek below. In the summer we can barely see the people across the creek, then fall comes and the shower of leaves is unbelievable. Wintertime - all the neighbors reappear and we see kids sledding down the hill behind us. We've watched deer take an all day nap on Christmas, laying there in the snow. When we chose this house the back yard was our son, Dan's favorite part. He was right - it's ours too. It's a little piece of heaven most of the time, and never needs vacuuming. Wish you could all join me here to get to know each other a little better and enjoy the view.
God was good to give us this house. When we bought it we were in town for two days to house shop. We looked at 20 houses per day, then narrowed down the list. It happened to be the very first one we looked at. It had no curb appeal, not a single flower in the yard, no shrubs. It needed a lot of TLC, but it looked like a great place to raise kids. It looked like it could be homey. Ten years later we think it is. Hope you do too. Homey is important to us. Thanks for visiting, hope you'll come back soon.
Labels: Family Affair
posted at 12:01 AM
Barb and I have been trying, now and then, to do a little post on some of the less-technical things we new bloggers run into. The simple things that frustrate us. In one of Barb's posts this week someone asked how to save a copy of your template. She gave them a quick, simple answer. My answer is a bit different - I have a "test blog" which I'll explain in more detail in a few weeks. For now, I have something on a different level, "technically" speaking.
My son, Dan, phoned me last night. He said he was grilling. I told him I didn't know they had a grill. He said they'd seen one at Target for 75% off. Only problem was it was pink - Barbie pink. Hot pink. At their apartment they are not allowed to grill on the little patios. I guess with the Texas heat and lack of rain, you don't want to be burning down any buildings whipping up supper. If you want to grill, you have to sit on the lawn outside your little patio. He said he didn't think it was worth the extra money to get a black one. So they bought hot pink. His Dad is the griller in our family; he's the griller in his. So technically speaking, this is his pink grill.
Today I spoke with my daughter-in-law, Janae. She and I were talking about Dan grilling last night and I told her I thought it must have looked funny. If Janae had been the one grilling it would have been the perfect picture. She's one of the most girly girls I've ever met. I don't know how many shoes or purses she has, but it's a lot. Her makeup drawer is amazing. Dan, on the other hand, is 6'3", hairy, big old shoulders, that nice square, very male jaw, and size 14 feet to go with the rest of him. There's nothing sissy about that boy. (Except that he used to be an honorary brownie but that's a family secret so we won't go there). The idea of him, sitting on his lawn, with this little, hot pink grill - it just cracked me up. When Janae told me she had captured it on film and would forward it to me - to share with all my blogging friends - whooohoo, did she get brownie points or what (on top of the ones Dan earned way back when...oh yeah, those were badges...).
So here's a techie grilling - all 6'3" of him, Barbie pink grill and his laptop. Oblivious to how he may have looked to anyone passing by. What's not to love about it! By the way, 75% off was I believe $5...in case your man is wanting one. I hear they have a few left.
Hubert and Tris,our other dear friends from way back, would be driving up from Florida for a short visit.
Let me go back a bit. Tris is my "Purple Shoe Money" friend. Her husband, Hubert was Don's boss way back when. Now they're simply our precious friends. We met Tom and Carlotta back in 1988 I think. Over the years, as husbands got transferred around the country, we lost touch with them. We'd see Hubert and Tris now and then, and stayed in touch through email here and there. When I started up my blog I sent a little email to a small group of friends. To my surprise Tris let me know she was out there reading.
while we girls stayed inside and had some girl talk.
We got to meet Tom and Carlotta's newest family member, a 4 month old miniature schnauzer named Katie. We managed a trip to Starbucks, Old Navy, the men visited Costco. Tris bought a pair of Crocs!
We met another couple, Don and Becky, for a fabulous italian dinner one night.
Tom's version of dessert was two pecan pies and I managed to eat three pieces in two days. (Pecan pie makes a great breakfast.) We put together a scrapbook of Carlotta's retirement party for her to remember everyone later down the road. There was something so comforting and precious about heading up the stairs at night and telling everyone goodnight. Felt a little like the Waltons - "night John Boy." Waking up in the morning, seeing everyone's bedheads and sharing coffee, felt like family.
I can't even begin to describe how rich we felt to be friends with these precious people. Thank you Hubert and Tris, Tom and Carlotta for a visit we will treasure for years to come. Let's do it again - soon.
Labels: Glimpse of the Heart
Most house tours are held right before Christmas. Houses hung with bows, garlands, etc. All gussied up, since you're paying an admission fee to come in and see their stuff. I've been to a few that had those long plastic runners, starting right at the front door. Sort of makes you feel like you're only welcome because you're a paying guest.
But how about this! Boomama, who has recently been oh so curious what all our places look like, has planned a Bloggity Tour of Homes two weeks from today, Friday, July 28. Any good southern girl knows you don't just drop in on people. You call ahead. So she did just that. Let us all know we need to get busy, tidy up a bit here and there. Company's coming!
Run over to this post to get all the details. Some rooms don't need any attention, and since it's the middle of summer and all, you sure don't want to be cleaning anything that doesn't absolutely have to have it. Me - I have a chip or two on the front door that needs a little TLC. See you in two weeks - no plastic runners at our place. Just come on in. You're all welcome. I'm excited about dropping in on all of you too, since I called ahead and all.
Labels: Family Affair
posted at 1:00 AM
#1 Salvation - Sometimes I take for granted that He picked me, paid my penalty.
#2 My health. Waking up in the morning, getting out of bed by myself, having eyesight, hearing, speech, memory. The only medication I take is an advil here and there. I take it for granted. I also take for granted that it will last forever with no effort on my part.
#3 Freedom. The freedom to worship, vote, work, move about my country, etc. etc. etc.
#4 That many men and women are, right this minute, protecting my freedom. I have never had to sacrifice a single family member to have this protection. Many have, and will.
#5 My husband's job; his ability to provide for us. One of my dear friends' husband was laid off two weeks ago with no notice. They are worrying over the mortgage, utility bills, etc.
#6 My marriage. It's strong. We're good. The best marriage still needs some maintenance, and sometimes I forget that and don't give it the attention it needs.
#7 Electricity. We lose power often here in the East, and when it goes out I am amazed at all the things that don't work.
#8 Forgiveness from those I love. When I blow it, again; when I hurt someone; when I disappoint someone - I assume they will forgive me. Again. Then when it's my turn, I forget those times others forgave me, again.
#9 Joy. It's only when life is so difficult, overwhelming, that I remember what the days feel like when it's not. When it's one of those days when I drive down the street, with the windows rolled down, and the music playing, singing along - I take those days for granted when they're there.
#10 Being able to be a Proverbs 31 woman, as far as "bringing my food from afar." I completely take for granted being able to go to Giant Eagle and buy anything I want. I forget those years when I lived in a town of 1750 people in North Dakota and the grocery store had 3 aisles. Now I tend to get annoyed that the store is so big and takes so long to go through.
#11 My parents, who are getting older. I don't call them often enough. Don't go see them often enough. Don't tell them I love them often enough. No amount is enough. I need to do it more.
#12 Our children, their spouses, our grandchildren. They are each a gift, undeserved. We love each other, get along well for a family. Holidays are not something we all dread. I forget that others don't have that situation, that it's a blessing.
#13 Scripture - I have truly 6 or more Bibles. We have friends in our church who go to countries where they have no Scripture, or get arrested if they are caught with it. I can quote verses here and there, but rarely get the book, chapter and verse here. I wonder if I thought I would have no access to it all of a sudden, would I spend more time in it?
Sadly, there are a number of other things I could add to this list. Even if it's for one day, I plan to be more aware of grace and mercy extended to me - in the big and little things of life. To not take them for granted.
Everybody thinks their kid is the best. If they have several, then their several are the best. At whatever. The smartest, best-looking, best-behaved, whatever. The best. That seems only fair since we have to raise them.
Don and I are generally the quiet type when it comes to being cheerleaders for our kids. We've spent time in the stands and never raised our voice. Never stayed after to get after a referee. Didn't put notices in the newspaper everytime someone made honor roll or actually graduated. That was what was expected of them. They knew it. They all say "maam and sir." (It just sounds nice, don't you think?)
We've tried to tell our kids - "do your best, your best is always good enough." Some things have come easier to one than to another. Sarah and Leslie were born with a book in their hands, or just about. Dan - a basketball. Or football. Not a book. You don't want to see our girls attempt sports. You don't want to see Dan's grade in foreign languages. We tried to encourage them to set goals in some area, to be growing, improving. We made them go to church, during those times they preferred to stay in bed. Those were fun mornings at our house!
The only member of my family - my parents and my siblings that is, who graduated from college was my mother. Amazing since she got married right after 8th grade. My sister Barb, and I, have done the Rosie O'Donnell thing - "the cycle stops here." Our kids went to college. It was expected of them. Required of them. No discussion.
We're proud of all of them - heck, they're our kids. We think they're the best, because they're ours. We're not more proud of one than the other; we don't have favorites, in spite of the family arguement that ensues about that very fact every time we all get together. (For the record, all three of our kids have a t-shirt like this one. Dan just believes it a little more.)
Just for today, though, we want to brag a little. Yell from the stands. Show a little favoritism. Yesterday our son, Dan, got accepted into grad school. He'll be studying for an MBA starting this fall. We have no idea what grades he'll get. That doesn't really matter. Some of the courses sound darned scary to me. For right now, just this minute - we're bustin' our buttons at him for taking the step, for setting the goal. We're also thankful sweet Janae will be the one living with him through the process. Way to go, Dan!
posted at 10:26 AM
When my children were small, they loved bandaids. Not the plain ole pink version; rather the jazzed up ones. Sarah and Leslie loved Barbie, My Little Pony, etc. Dan, on the other hand was more than willing to skin a knee to get a G.I.Joe applied. There were times their little legs would have a good half a dozen bandaids up and down them; each little scrape or knick needed a bandaid all it's own.
When Dan was little he had some type of seizures. The doctors never did really completely diagnose them. I just called them "the type that scared me to death." The kind that made me pray to give up a year of my life in return for this kid to start breathing again. Once when we were traveling across the country, Dan shut his thumb in the door of a convenience store. Only when I looked up from his thumb did I realize he'd also stuck the hanger that bags of candy go on through his cheek. When he screamed til he stopped breathing, I remember holding him as tightly as possible to my chest, consoling him over and over trying to calm him. Trying to get him to breathe again. Hearing my voice, he eventually calmed down and was okay.
There have been many kid disasters over the years. A toy flute stuck in an eye, stitches needed here and there. A broken thumb, sprained ankles, broken ankle, etc. All of these things could be fixed with some combination of colorful bandaids, good insurance, lots of sympathy, popsicles, tylenol, etc. Little did I know these would be the easy ones to deal with.
There were the hurts that weren't physical. Broken hearts, hurt feelings; games not won, tryouts not made. Friends who betrayed, goals not reached. Those have been hard. Some hurts were self-inflicted - brought on by poor choices, age-appropriate but poor. Some came by trusting someone too easily, or too much. As parents we listened, counseled, prayed.
When our middle daughter, Leslie, went to college I really struggled to let her go. She hadn't really gone through a tough stage as a teen. She usually made good choices, tried to please us. After a month or so of delving into what could be causing me so much anxiety, I realized I didn't trust God. I realized He and I had different agendas. Mine was to keep them safe, never let them be hurt. His was to let them grow up - into what He had planned for them to be. My plan was to go ahead of them and prevent them from making mistakes. His would allow them to make the mistakes and learn from them. I liked my plan a lot better. It was a turning point for me to at least realize, as a mother, I've tried to protect them from the moment I knew they existed. I still do. Even now I don't particularly want them to grow, stretch, be challenged. I don't want them to hurt. I do want them to "turn out", just with no drama involved. I don't need to be God - I just need Him to take advice from me....
For the last two months I've stood back and watched my daughter, Sarah, bear up to such hurts, challenges, heartaches. I've seen her be stronger than I raised her to be. I'm not only proud of the young woman she's grown into, I'm proud of the woman I see her growing into now; today. I also hurt to see her hurt. I ache to know how lonely this must all feel. To know she has to do it herself; I can't do it for her. My plan would not have equipped her to be where she is right now. Thank God, God went with His plan...
Now that she has a little girl of her own, I believe she can better understand my mother's heart. For the little girl she will always be to me. I wish I could just plaster her with Barbie bandaids and make it all better. I realize only one of us gets to be God. He is able to do much more than cover up a hurt with a bandage. He is able to heal. This mother's heart is holding strong, day-by-day as I watch Him carry out His plan for her. Sarah said, in one of her most recent posts - "he is not only able to care for my daughter's heart; He's able to care for mine." Ditto.
Seventy-three years ago today my mom was born. She gave us a brief retelling of the story of her arrival in one of her first posts. The title, "Seventy-Six Trombones" is appropriate for someone born on the 4th ofJuly, in hot southeast Texas. I always thought it would be cool to be born on a holiday; I doubt that day felt cool in any way, shape or form.
I've already written a post about my mother, Judith, known to some of you as Flight Song. If she weren't my mother, I'd still want to get to know her. I'd want to hear her stories. She has lived through more than most of us will ever experience in a lifetime, and she still has a gentle spirit and a sense of humor. She can't tell a joke to save her life, blows the punchline every time, but all five of her kids love her dearly. She is precious in every sense of the word.
She is little in stature. It's just that nobody has ever told her so. She's got a lot of fight left in her, just not usually against her fellow man. My mom and I have not lived closer than 750 miles apart for the last 25 years. We are very close though, where it counts. Our hearts. Two years ago, after a tragic loss in our family, I sat down and taught her how to email. We needed to be in touch more. I wrote out step-by-step instructions. I promised her it would feel like talking once she did it a few times. The first email I received from her I put on my fridge door, just like a proud mother might of a drawing done at pre-school. I couldn't believe she'd really done it.
Two months ago she relocated across the mountain in Colorado, to live near my sister, Barb. In the process of moving, her computer has gone completely haywire, her email addresses disappeared; heck, it even took two weeks to get the TV hooked up. If it had been fall reality TV season, it would have killed Boomama! Mom is trying to get her computer woes straightened out. She'll soon return to this blogging world she bravely tiptoed into just a little while back. She has a style very different than Barb or I, or for anyone else for that matter. Reading her writings feels like curling up at the feet of a good storyteller; you know you should pay attention.
For now, feel free to send Happy Birthday greetings to her; mark her on your bloglines and watch to see when she returns. She's worth listening to, as long as she's not trying to tell you a joke.
Happy Birthday Mom. Wish I could be there for the party. I love you.
We grew up with a menagerie of critters. I doubt we paid for any of them. My brothers likely dragged some home; others were fed at our house for too many days in a row and stayed. We never visited the vet; heck, we kids rarely went to the doctor! Consequently some died of mysterious deaths. Looking back, I realize it was never terribly sad saying goodbye to any of our pets. They didn't stick around that long. They didn't last long enough for us to get attached to them. I remember one puppy in particular. His history ended under the wheels of the school bus, and we had a neighborhood "funeral" that felt more like a party. Only one pet ever, ever lived inside our house. Her name was Pauletta Sue June Boaz, a little grey poodle with bows in her hair. She slept inbetween my sister, Barb and I. She'd been given to Barb by some dying relative of an old boyfriend. I still can't believe my father agreed to anything with four legs living inside our four walls. Even Pauletta Sue was given away when our family moved across country. There was no goodbye, she just didn't make the trip I'd already left on.
We all carry baggage from our growing-up years; I will always have an unhealthy attachment to any falling down, paint-peeling, white clapboard house that just so happens to have a front porch. I'll always have a soft-spot for making homemade ice cream with a hand crank freezer. I'll also have an unnatural pull toward creatures. Especially dogs and cats. Somehow I convince myself if we don't adopt them nobody will. My husband would rather I go to the mall than the humane society. About 15 years ago, due to my aforementioned inability to say NO, we'd climbed to an all new high number of pets. T.W.E.L.V.E. If I remember right, there were two dogs, Lindy and Daisy; two cats, Bullseye and Mooch; three goldfish-no names needed; a guinea pig named Ben (who was really a girl named Jennifer), and four teddy bear hamsters, all named Timmy, after my husband's brother (which always cracked us up). It was also the summer we had our three kids, and we'd agreed to raise my brother's two year old, non-potty trained son.
At some point I reached saturation/overload level. I just could not stand one more creature depending on me to stay alive. I knew I couldn't get rid of anybody with two legs, so everybody else became open season. I just woke up and H.A.D. H.A.D. I.T.
My first act of the day was to give the fish the royal flush. It truly didn't occur to me that a chlorinated swim would be painful. I scooped them out and sent them on their way. Next, I convinced the kids selling their hamsters was a good way to make money. $5 is a lot of money to a kid. We sold them all. There were a few parents left out there who didn't know a $5 hamster needed $50 in habitrails, sawdust, etc. I still don't know how we convinced somebody to take a cat. I didn't require an I.Q. test, so off it went. A boy from the high school agreed to take Daisy, the bird dog. He actually hunted birds; all we were using her for was to bleach out the carpet, one spot at a time. It was the end of the day. All that was left was Ben, a.k.a. Jennifer the guinea pig. He/she lived in a 10 gallon glass aquarium. There was no drainage. Just soaked newspaper clippings. She'd grab her water bottle with her little mouth very early every morning and let it go, over and over, to let us know it was breakfast time. Time to deliver lettuce to her front curb. She'd whack the glass wall, then let out a screech. Ben had to go. I would have kept all the others just to send him to somebody else's house. Ben belonged to our son, Dan. Dan didn't really mind the screeches and smells coming from his room. Boys are good that way. He loved Ben. I finally convinced Dan he could sell Ben for $10. Dan had never had $10 in his life. The money lured him in. Alas, we couldn't find anyone with a mother clueless enough to pay for the pig.
There was one hope left - Jeremy. Jeremy's Dad was out of a job. They didn't have $10, but he had one of those moms who has an even bigger problem saying no than I do. Perfect. I told Dan I would buy Ben from him, then give Ben to Jeremy as a gift. To cheer him up. I still vividly remember stopping by the ATM machine on the way out of town; standing there with Dan withdrawing the $10 bill. Handing it over to him. Trying not to feel completely evil.
At the end of the day we had T.W.O. pets. One cat, one dog. Like most normal Americans. Sad ending to the story; Ben didn't live very long. apparently Jeremy's mother cut back on Ben's water supply so he'd stop that infernal racket with the water bottle. Dan grew up, realized $10 is not a fortune. To this day if I mention Ben, he lets me know he hasn't completely forgiven me for waving a $10 bill under his little nose. He's still convinced we literally sold Ben into a certain death. That's how it went down - the day our family refers to as "Pet Purging Day."
I recently changed my profile photo. The main reason was, as Sarah, my daughter pointed out, the photo had Sydney in it. Sydney, who I sold when she was six months old because she was driving me crazy. Sarah pointed out there was probably something wrong with posting a photo of me and the dog I deserted. Point well taken. Thus, new profile photo. Note - I DO have a cat and a dog, take good care of them, and have no plan of removing them from our household. I only mention this to make up for the fact that after I sold Sydney I put Sadie, the other cat, to sleep, or as we like to say - "sent her to heaven to be Jesus' pet." My reason was a good one, but I'll spare you TMI. Sometimes I just have to, as I told Sarah, "kill the cat." Alas, sometimes the sins of the parent are visited on the children; I'll let my daughter, Sarah, tell you the rest of the story.
posted at 12:16 PM
Our son-in-law, Jeremy is an enigma. He has such a love for nature, the outdoors. He'll also shoot just about anything that makes the mistake of standing still too long. I can't see anything within inches of my face to save my life, but can see about a block away very clearly. So Jeremy and I compete to see who spots the wildlife first. In our backyard woods or on the road. Austrie stood there long enough we knew something was up; Jeremy went to the glass door and looked. Sure enough, there they were. A doe with her TWO spotted fawns. They were nursing as she stood there patiently waiting. We keep binoculars in a drawer in the kitchen for moments like this, or for when we happen to have a pileated woodpecker or hawk visiting. Or my favorite groundhog I've named George. Or a flock of turkeys during mating season.
Standing there watching this moment, it felt like a quiet gift from God. The woods behind our house gets so thick with leaves this time of year we can barely see our neighbors. They reappear when fall arrives. The leaves almost hid them. As the two babies nursed, their mother gently groomed them. Guess you could call that multi-tasking: bathtime and supper at the same time.
With Sarah having a newborn, and spending much of her waking moments feeding little Addison, and Leslie about to embark on motherhood, it felt amazing to stand there and take it in. The mother looked at us intently as we quietly crept out onto the deck. She tolerated our presence as long as we didn't venture down the stairs to the yard. I know later this summer we will see these two little ones playing chase up and down our creek. Mom will be somewhere nearby, watching.
Moments like this make the mortgage worth it. They make the old windows and high utility bills seem trivial. Jeremy didn't say a word about how big these babies would be when hunting season arrives. He's about to become a father for the first time. He knew - some things are sacred. Watching a mother caring for her newborn twins is one of them.
posted at 11:25 AM


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4 Startup Crowdfunding Tips Agencies Don't Want You To Know
Successful Strategies for your Kickstarter Project in Austin, TX
We've all seen a project get launched on Kickstarter and suddenly skyrocket to insane numbers. If you have a great idea, it certainly can make you hopeful to see a project backed so quickly.
However, reality isn't as pretty as the records show. There's a lot that goes into a successful crowdfunding project – and 90% of the time there's an agency and / or a strategy behind it. Today we're going to share with you some of those strategies. It may all seem like common sense, but we hope that these tips can help get your crowdfunding project off the ground.
1. A Strong Brand and Message
While it can be tempting to jump immediately to Kickstarter or Indie GoGo with your brilliant new idea, it's best to hold off at first. Your first step, after coming up with your idea, is to build a powerful brand identity and brand message. Realistically, your crowdfunding pursuit is the beginning of a business or product design and eventually you would need a brand identity anyways.
Your crowdfunding project is going to be your first impression, and by having a professional brand – it will ensure that potential backers know you are serious. Start by creating a good logo and branding style guide. Once you have the identity in place, it's important that your delivery items are consistent with your new branding.
Instead of just recording a video on your cell phone, spend some time writing out your brand messaging. Explain your idea, the rewards associated with backing and the milestones for the release date. Create a professional video that outlines all of your messaging in a clear and consistent manner. Use branded graphics in the text description and create shareables that backers can use on social media.
2. Angel "Investors"
Don't start your crowdfunding project without committed backers already lined up. Approach your friends, family and business partners and pitch the project to them first. Get 20 – 40% of your "goal" amount from outreach before you launch your project.
It's important to have a plan in line for when they back into your project, as well. A project that has a natural growth process in meeting its goal lets potential backers see that their investment is a safe bet. Line your committed backers to "buy in" at certain goal points. Heavy upfront, heavy when you get media exposure, and heavy towards the end. It's also incredibly important that you have these backers pocketed, because often times people who back may pull out at the last minute, causing you to just miss your goal. If you have committed backers that can push you over the limit in the final days, your campaign will be successful.
3. Media Circulation
When reaching out for backers, also look at potential blogs and publications that may be interested in what you're crowdfunding. Blogs, publications and media outlets are always looking for new and exciting things to cover and it's likely that your crowdfunding idea can find a platform for exposure.
Send out a press package to any blogs or publications you feel may be interested (look within industry). Inside of your press package: include a description of your project, images the publications can use in their articles and a little bit of history behind your project. If you can get a few places to report on your crowdfunding project at launch, in the middle and towards the end of your time frame – those little boosts of publicity will go a long way. Also, don't be afraid to spend some money advertising your Kickstarter project. People won't be able to find it if you don't get the word out!
4. Realistic Milestones and Rewards
Don't over promise. Remember that when using a crowdfunding platform, the platform will take a percentage of your goal if successful. Remember that you will be responsible in shipping or delivery and that those have costs as well. Most importantly don't forget the amount of man-hours that go into a project and the "rewards".
Before committing to reward tiers, do your research and build a business plan. Do you have an assembler for your new electronic appliance? Will a plane flight from Tokyo to New York cost $1000? If you are printing hardcover books, are you prepared to spend $50+ a book?" If you are making a game, do you have the man power to build a new level within your delivery time?
A successfully backed project is great, but if you don't deliver, you'll be faced with angry backers and essentially be blacklisted. A successful project with successful delivery will give you the opportunity to crowdfund again in the future. Be realistic about your milestones and rewards, and delivery will be easy.
You can build a strong crowdfunding project, it just requires effort and planning!


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by Matthew Uhrig
Press staff
WINCHESTER – The village's Foodland outlet has been included in the provincial government's latest rollout of beer and cider sales in grocery stores throughout Ontario.
While the official announcement came last week, store manager Dan Pettigrew told the Winchester Press a day after the Tues., May 9 unveiling that the application process began nearly a year ago.
Winchester's Foodland was one of the 76 selected from a competitive bidding process overseen by the Liquour Control Board of Ontario.
"This is an astronomically huge announcement for us," Pettigrew said.
The latest batch of stores approved includes 11 independent shops, and 65 chain stores. They join the nearly 130 locations provincewide already selling beer and cider, with about 70 of those outlets also selling wine.
Foodland's deadline to start selling is Fri., June 30, which will lead the store into the Canada Day long weekend.
This means architectural changes are required at the Main Street store that opened in November 2016. By law, grocers selling beer and cider must have designated sales areas, operate within standard hours of sale, abide by limitations on package size and alcohol content, and train staff to sell the products.
What this really means is the store will be limited to selling six packs of beer and cider only. As well, while Foodland's 24-hour schedule will remain, alcohol sales will only take place between 9 am and 11 pm Monday to Saturday, and 11 am to 5 pm on Sundays.
Pettigrew said designs are currently being drawn up that will see a change to the store's interior footprint in order to add up to 16 more coolers.
"We can fit this within the current footprint of the store… We're able to relocate all products, and we won't be losing any items. I know that will be a huge concern for some people," he said.
As well, a minimum of 25 per cent of the alcohol products sold at the store must be craft beer, which is a burgeoning market throughout Ontario.
Though wine isn't part of the current rollout, Pettigrew noted that an application has been submitted, and he's hopeful that within a year it will be approved.
No matter, the ability to sell beer and cider is a big "get" for the store, he added.
"This means completing our overall plan to have a complete shopping experience in one location," Pettigrew said.
Vankleek Hill's Foodland store has also been approved for alcohol sales, while Russell's Foodland recently reopened with its licence greenlit.


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Karen A. Cerulo
Professor Cerulo's research addresses a variety of themes within the sociology of culture and cognition.
Much of Professor Cerulo's works explore the social foundations of symbol systems -- music, scent, verbal scripts, and visual images. Her research examines the ways in which social actors use such symbols to construct personal identity, collective identity, and the identity of eras, events, and places. Her work also charts the ways in which social factors -- i.e. the nature of social ties, the stability of social environments, power structures, economic systems of exchange, and technological innovations – help to shape the content, form, meaning, and effectiveness of symbols. She is currently writing an article length piece entitled The Sweet Smell of Success: Body, Brain and Mind in Olfactory Evaluation. Here, she uses focus group data to understand the role played by neural, physical, and sociocultural elements when we process the messages contained in commercial perfume scents.
Professor Cerulo's writings are often noted for their contributions to the literature on measurement. She has developed a number of indicators designed to systematically capture verbal and non-verbal symbol structure. These measures render aural, olfactory, literary, and visual objects extremely accessible sources of social science data, amenable to all of the rigorous methods that are central to the social science tradition.
In recent years, Professor Cerulo has turned her attentions to the social and cultural foundations of cognitive concepts and schema. Her work pays special attention to the links between cultural sociology and cognitive neuroscience. She edited and contributed both to a special issue on this topic, published in the journal Poetics in 2010 and a special section published in Sociological Forum, December 2014.
One prominent theme in Professor Cerulo's work on conceptualization concerns new communication technologies. Specifically, she explores the ways in which emerging communication media can change the ways in which individuals perceive social actors and social groups, experience social connectedness, and define forums of social action.
Some of Professor Cerulo's recent work explores the conceptualization of the best and worst of people, places, objects and events. Her book Never Saw It Coming builds on theories and ideas forwarded by both cultural and cognitive sociologists, Professor Cerulo argues that the inability to envision and specify the worst is a sociocultural phenomenon. Indeed, in a broad array of social situations, she discovers that conceptions of the worst represent a gap in many cultures' shared frames of reference. The worst is a "blind spot" created by a variety of normative and patterned sociocultural practices – practices that, despite any single individual's intentions, keep the worst veiled and difficult to define. In her work, Professor Cerulo itemizes and unpacks these practices. She explores as well the ways in which certain elements of social structure may encourage this biased perspective. Finally, she considers the social consequences and pitfalls that masking the worst can exact. In so doing, she questions whether a more symmetrical view of quality is an achievable ... or a desirable social goal.
Spurred by some of the issues raised in Never Saw It Coming, Professor Cerulo has just started work on a book entitled High Hopes: The Sociocultural Dimensions of Wishing and Dreaming (with Janet M. Ruane). The authors argue that dreams and aspirations are thought to be matters of an individual's heart and mind. But in this book, the authors explore the sociocultural dimensions that organize and structure what Americans do (or do not) dream about, the ways in which they dream, variations in dreams according to one's social location, and when, if ever, people stop dreaming.
Professor Cerulo's articles appear in a wide variety of journals including the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Psychology Quarterly, Sociological Methods and Research, Sociological Forum, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Focus, Communication Research, Contemporary Sociology, Poetics ,Social Science Research, Law and Policy, Science As Culture, and annuals and collections such as the Annual Review of Sociology, the Encyclopedia of Nationalism, the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, the Handbook of Cultural Sociology, the Handbook of Social Theory, Research in Political Sociology, and the World Book Encyclopedia. She is the author of Never Saw It Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst (University of Chicago Press, 2006), Deciphering Violence: The Cognitive Order of Right and Wrong (Routledge: 1998), and Identity Designs: The Sights and Sounds of a Nation – winner of these Culture Section's "Best Book Award, 1996" (The Rose Book series of the ASA, Rutgers University Press: 1995). She also co-authored Second Thoughts: Seeing Conventional Wisdom through the Sociological Eye (Pine Forge Press, 6th edition, 2014), and edited a collection entitled Culture in Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition (Routledge, 2002).
Professor Cerulo served as the Sociology Department Chair from July 2009 to August 2012. She has also served as the Chair of the ASA's Culture section (2009 through 2010), where she also functions as the section's network coordinator, and the director of the Culture and Cognition Network. She is a former Vice President of the Eastern Sociological Society and the current editor of Sociological Forum, the flagship journal of the Eastern Sociological Society. In 2013, she was named the Robin M. Williams Jr. Lecturer by the Eastern Sociological Society and she also won that organization's 2013 Merit Award. In 2012, she received the Rutgers University Scholar-Teacher Award, recognizing both her pedagogy and research in sociology.
Selected Publications
Cerulo, Karen A. 2015. "The Embodied Mind: Building on Wacquant's Carnal Sociology." Qualitative Sociology 38: 1: 33-38.
Cerulo, Karen A. and Janet M. Ruane. 2014. "Apologies of the Rich and Famous: Social, Cultural and Cognitive Explanations of Why We Care and Why We Forgive." Social Psychology Quarterly 77: 2: 123-149
Cerulo, Karen A. 2010. "Mining the Intersections of Cognitive Sociology and Neuroscience." Poetics 38: 2: 115-132
Cerulo, Karen A. 2009. "Non-Humans in Social Interaction." Annual Review of Sociology vol. 35: 531-552.
Honors and Awards
The Robin M. Williams, Jr. Lectureship: Awarded by the Eastern Sociological Society in recognition of Distinguished Scholarship, 2013.
Eastern Sociological Society Merit Award: Awarded to distinguished scholars who have made outstanding contributions to the discipline, the profession, and the ESS, 2013.
Faculty Scholar-Teaching Award: Honors Rutgers University faculty members who have made outstanding contributions in both research and teaching.
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Ira Cohen
Professor Cohen's major interests in the area of culture and cognition center on the sociology of action in everyday life. He is also active in the areas of classical and contemporary social theory, theories of modernity and the history of social thought. Professor Cohen's most recent book, Solitary Action: Acting on Our Own in Everyday Life is published by Oxford University Press. It will be available in October 2015. Professor Cohen is well known for his book and essays on Anthony Giddens and structuration theory. He has served on a number of editorial boards notably including The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology. He has been a member of the Editorial Board of Theory, Culture and Society for many years. He also served a term on the International Editorial Board of Sociology The Journal of the British Sociology Association. Professor Cohen has been a guest lecturer at a number of European Universities including: Tbilisi State University, Republic of Georgia and the Universities of Naples, Genoa, Pisa, Milan Biccoca,and Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Milan. Professor Cohen has served as a Council member for the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association.
Professor Cohen's newly completed book , Solitary Action, proposes a new way of conceiving solitary activities as a substantial, yet previously unexamined realm of social behavior. Innovating a new model of actions performed by individuals on their own, Professor Cohen distinguishes and brings to life four diverse forms of solitary action: peripatetics, regimens, engrossments, and reflexives. An epilogue distinguishes solitary action from long-term solitary withdrawals from interaction with others. A brief précis of key points is available in Perspectives: Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section (35:2 November 2013). A broader synoptic article is in preparation.
Professor Cohen is also on the faculty in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rutgers in Newark where he teaches social theory in the Graduate Program in Peace
Selected Publications
Solitary Action: Acting on Our Own in Everyday Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016
Structuration Theory: Anthony Giddens and the Constitution of Social Life. London: Macmillan and New York: St Martin's Press, 1989.
"Solitary Action: Behavior Beyond the Interatction Order" in progress
Allan Horwitz
Allan V. Horwitz is Board of Governors Professor of Sociology and Interim Director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. Professor Horwitz has studied a variety of aspects of mental health and illness, including the social response to mental illness, family caretaking for dependent populations, the impact of social roles and statuses on mental health, and the social construction of mental disorders. His current work integrates biological and sociological perspectives in distinguishing between normal and dysfunctional types of depression. He has published over 100 articles and chapters in the main journals in his field. In addition, he has published several books including The Social Control of Mental Illness (Academic Press 1982; new edition Percheron Press 2002); The Logic of Social Control (Plenum Press 1990); Creating Mental Illness (University of Chicago Press 2002), The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Misery into Depressive Disorder (Oxford University Press 2007), Conundrums of Modern American Medicine (Rutgers University Press 2010), All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry's Transformation of Normal Anxieties into Mental Disorders (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Anxiety: A Short History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013). Since 1980 he has been the co-director (with David Mechanic) of the NIMH funded Rutgers Postdoctoral Program in Mental Health. He has also served as Chair of the Sociology Department for nine years (1985-1991; 1996-1999) and Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences (2006 – 2012).
Selected Publications
Allan V. Horwitz. Anxiety: A Short History. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2013.
Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield. All We Have to Fear: Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxiety into Mental Disorder. Oxford University Press, 2012.
* Best Publication Award, Section on Evolution, Biology, and Society, 2014
Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield. The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Misery into Depressive Disorder. Oxford University Press, 2007.
* Winner Association of American Publishers Best Book Award 2007, Psychology Category;
* Winner Best Publication Award, American Sociological Association Section on Evolution,
Biology, and Society, 2010;
* Named one of seven best books of the past decade in the sociology of mental health in
Contemporary Sociology
Joanna Kempner
Joanna Kempner, an associate professor of sociology, works at the intersection of medicine, science, gender, and the body. Her research focuses both on the formation of social problems and on the ways in which some issues are consistently ignored, dismissed, or delegitimated. Her book, Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health (Chicago 2014) examines the social values embedded in the way we talk about, understand, and make policies for people in pain. She has also written extensively on the formation of "forbidden knowledge," i.e. the boundaries that form around what we think is too dangerous, sensitive or taboo to research. She is currently working on several projects related to the politics of disease. Professor Kempner received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Rutgers, Professor Kempner was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at the University of Michigan and a Research Associate at the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University. Her research appears in peer-reviewed sociology and medical journals including Science, Social Science & Medicine, Gender & Society, and Public Library of Science Medicine.
Selected Publications
Kempner, J. (2014). Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Legitimacy. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.
Young, William B., Iris X. Tian, Jung E. Park, Joanna Kempner. 2013 "The stigma of migraine." Public Library of Science One. 8(1): e54074.
Kempner, Joanna, Jon F. Merz, Charles L. Bosk. 2011 "Forbidden knowledge: Public controversy and the production of nonknowledge." Sociological Forum. 26(3). 475-500. Lead article.
Honors and Awards
2013-2016 Council member, Body and Embodiment Section of the American Sociological Association
2015 Rutgers Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence
2012 Honorable Mention, Star-Nelkin Paper Award. Science, Knowledge and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association.
Catherine Lee
Catherine Lee is associate professor of sociology. She examines how meanings of race and ethnicity shape social relations and inequalities across three critical sites: immigration; science and medicine; and law and society. Catherine is the author of Fictive Kinship: Family Reunification and the Meaning of Race and Nation in American Immigration (2013, Russell Sage) and co-editor of Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (2012, Rutgers University Press). Her current projects include an investigation of racial disparities in pain management and the politics of narcotics control and a study of how social institutions are addressing ideas of racial ambiguity or uncertainty tied to shifting demographics and rise of multiraciality.
Selected Publications
Lee, Catherine. 2013. Fictive Kin: Family Reunification and the Meaning of Race and Nation in American Immigration. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Wailoo, Keith, Alondra Nelson, and Catherine Lee (eds.). 2012. Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision between DNA, Race, and History. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Friedman, Asia and Catherine Lee. 2013. "Producing Knowledge about Racial Differences: Tracing Scientists' Use of 'Race' and 'Ethnicity' from Grants to Articles." Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 41(3): 720-732.
Faculty Research Grant, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Rutgers University, "The Color of Pain: Race and the Management of Pain in Medicine", 2012-2013.
Honors and Awards
Russell Sage Foundation, Visiting Scholars Program, 2009-2010
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, University of Michigan, 2003-2005
Paul McLean
Paul McLean's research has focused on exploring the connections between multiple kinds of social networks—marriage networks, economic networks, and political patronage networks chiefly—and describing the cultural practices and identities that actors adopt to move within and across these networks. He is particularly interested in culture as it is employed in social interaction, whether that pertains to social networking, contests of honor, or the playing of video games. He is currently working on a book manuscript exploring the multiple ways in which networks and culture intersect in sociological research.
Selected Publications
Gondal, Neha, and Paul D. McLean. 2013. "Linking Tie-meaning with Network Structure: Variable Connotations of Personal Lending in a Multiple-Network Ecology." Poetics 41: 122-50.
Khanolkar, Preeti R., and Paul D. McLean. 2012. "100 Percenting It: Videogame Play through the Eyes of Devoted Gamers." Sociological Forum 27, 4: 961-85.
McLean, Paul D. 2007. The Art of the Network: Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
"The Changing Social and Rhetorical Foundations of Florentine Republicanism." Neubauer Foundation at the University of Chicago [John F. Padgett, Political Science, University of Chicago; Paul D. McLean, Sociology, Rutgers University; William J. Connell, History, Seton Hall University; Niall Atkinson, Art History, University of Chicago; John P. McCormick, Political Science, University of Chicago, co-PIs]. 2014-17. $100,000
"Networks of Opportunity and Influence at Rutgers." RU FAIR Mini-grant, under the auspices of NSF-ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Grant, 2008-2013, "RUFAIR-Rutgers University for Faculty Advancement and Institutional Re-imagination" [Joan W. Bennett, Helen Buettner, Patricia Roos, Kathryn Uhrich, Philip Yeagle, co-PIs]. 2010-11. $11,500
Honors and Awards
Fellow, Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University, 2012-13
Honorable Mention in the 2008 Best Book Competition of the ASA Section on Culture, for The Art of the Network
Co-editor, American Sociological Association Rose Series in Sociology, 2012-present
Hana Shepherd
Hana Shepherd's work focuses on three areas: social networks, cognitive and social psychological accounts of culture, and the relationship between organizational procedures and inequality. She uses diverse methods including network analysis, lab and field-based experiments, interviews, and archival research. She is currently studying the relationship between social network structure and change, and cultures of peer conflict and harassment in middle schools. The data for this project comes from a year-long field experiment that she co-directed in 56 middle schools in New Jersey, the Roots Program. A starting point of the intervention is the observation that peer conflict in schools often stems from what students believe their peers this is typical and desirable behavior—how they perceive the social norms of the school. The current project and previous work studies the social cognitive process of forming perceptions of the social norms operating in a group or setting, and how that process is shaped by social networks. Social norms are a central element of culture as they shape larger patterns of behavior in groups. Another set of projects applies tools and insights from cognitive and social psychology to study how individuals cognitively encode meaning and how cognition is shaped by context. These projects include survey experiments on cognition and fertility preferences among college students, and using new methods to identify schemas for action from survey data about fertility.
Selected Publications
Shepherd, Hana, and Elizabeth L. Paluck. 2015. Stopping the Drama: Gendered Influence in a Network Field Experiment. Social Psychology Quarterly 78: 173-193
Shepherd, Hana. 2014. Culture and Cognition: A Process Account of Culture. Sociological Forum 29: 1007-11.
Shepherd, Hana. 2011. The Cultural Context of Cognition: What the Implicit Association Test Tells Us About How Culture Works. Sociological Forum 26: 121-143.
NIH R03 "Using Innovative Analyses of Attitudes to Predict Fertility-Related Behavior." Co-PI with Emily Marshall. 2015-2017. ($168,573).
Arlene Stein
Arlene Stein Pofessor Stein studies culture, psychosocial studies, gender, sexuality, trauma, collective memory, religion, narratives, social movements, and public sociology.
Selected Publications
Reluctant Witnesses: Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness (Oxford 2014)
The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle Over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights (Beacon 2001)
Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation (California 1997)
Honors and Awards
Editor, Contexts, 2012-2014
Simon and Gagnon Lifetime Achievement Award, American Sociological Association, 2006
Richard Williams
Eviatar Zerubavel
Professor Zerubavel is Board of Governors and Distinguished Professor of Sociology. His main areas of interest are cognitive sociology and the sociology of time. He published numerous articles in AJS, ASR, Social Forces, and other journals, and is the author of the following books: Patterns of Time in Hospital Life: A Sociological Perspective (University of Chicago Press, 1979); Hidden Rhythms: Schedules and Calendars in Social Life (University of Chicago Press, 1981. Paperback – University of California Press, 1985. Also translated into Japanese and Italian); The Seven-Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week (Free Press, 1985. Paperback – University of Chicago Press, 1989. Listed among Choice's Outstanding Academic Books in 1985); The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life (Free Press, 1991. Paperback – University of Chicago Press, 1993); Terra Cognita: The Mental Discovery of America (Rutgers University Press, 1992. Transaction – 2003); Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology (Harvard University Press, 1997. Paperback – 1999. Also translated into Norwegian); The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations, and Books (Harvard University Press, 1999. Also translated into Marathi); Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past (University of Chicago Press, 2003. Paperback – 2004. Also translated into Italian); The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life (Oxford University Press, 2006. Paperback – 2007. Also translated into Chinese); Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, and Community (Oxford University Press, 2011. Paperback – 2013. Awarded Honorable mention in the 2012 PROSE Award ["Sociology and Social Work" category] by the Association of American Publishers); and Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Structure of Irrelevance (Oxford University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a book on the politico-semiotics of taken-for-grantedness. Professor Zerubavel served as the director of the sociology graduate programs at Columbia University, Stony Brook University, and four terms at Rutgers. He also served as the Chair of the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association (2000-01), and was a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2003). He teaches graduate courses in cognitive sociology; time, history, and memory; and sociological theory.
Selected Publications
Zerubavel, Eviatar, 1979. "Private Time and Public Time: The Temporal Structure of Social Accessibility and Professional Commitments." Social Forces 58(1):38‑58.
Zerubavel, Eviatar. 1982. "The Standardization of Time: A Sociohistorical Perspective." American Journal of Sociology 88(1):1‑23.
Zerubavel, Eviatar. 2007. "Generally Speaking: The Logic and Mechanics of Social Pattern Analysis." Sociological Forum 22(2):131-45.
Honors and Awards
The Seven-Day Circle was listed among Choice's Outstanding Academic Books in 1985.
Elected to membership in the Sociological Research Association in 1994.
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003.


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