Claire Conger

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Claire's Original Art Greeting Cards
There is nothing that says I care like a real snail-mail greeting card!
Click on a picture above for a plain-paper printable greeting card pdf. Print on regular 8.5 by 11 printer paper. Fold twice so that the art is on the front and the title and copyright are on the back. Write your greeting on the inside. Mail in an A2 Invitation Envelope.
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Entries from March 2008

How Not to Get a Date: Just Say No

March 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Note to self: When a good looking and interesting guy asks you for a beer, say YES!

I decided to try skiing, so yesterday I did! It was so fun.

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Tags: Emotional Freedom · Love and Sex · Movies Worth Watching · Relationships

The Nanny Diaries: A Thoroughly Entertaining Romp through Manhattan

March 17th, 2008 · No Comments

I was thoroughly entertained listening to Kathe Mazur’s reading of The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.

The Nanny Diaries does what a good book ought, transport the reader—listener—to a different world. In this case, it’s upper-class Manhattan where the rich are clueless.

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Tags: Literary Fiction

Pesky Prepositions and Anonymous Grammar Nazis

March 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Last night at a party I had a fun little conversation with Heidi Kearsley, a successful real estate agent with Wells&Bennett in Oakland California.Heidi Kearsley Heidi recently sent out postcards, the kind agents send out to drum up business.

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Tags: Advice · Emotional Freedom · Non Fiction · Social Psychology

And It Was Enough: Mrs Dalloway Makes it though The Hours

March 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Last night I watched The Hours, a movie based on Michael Cunningham’s 2000 novel of the same name.

The Hours is a haunting psychodrama around the suicide of Virginia Woolf (played by Nicole Kidman) with the death theme running throughout.

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Tags: Health and Happiness · Literary Fiction · Movies Worth Watching

Happiness Is an Outside Job: Unhappy at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

March 6th, 2008 · No Comments

I decided I needed to expand my horizons, so I paid $45 to go to Spirit Rock Meditation Center to hear Buddhist Sylvia Boorstein speak on happiness. Actually, she was selling her book Happiness Is an Inside Job.

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Tags: Emotional Freedom · Non Fiction · Personal Success