Tatyana Fazlalizadeh and “Stop Telling Women to Smile”

The artist, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh  is bringing her art show, “Stop Telling Women to Smile” to Oakland in the Betti Ono Gallery and will be on display throughout March. The traveling exhibit started in Brooklyn and voiced its feminist images throughout the country with it’s bold faces staring down it’s viewers…

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Show…Don’t Tell By Wendy VanHatten

If you show your reader what happens, you’re more likely to keep him interested in your writing. This goes for travel writing, books, novels, and more. Use action words and avoid passive verbs. Try this exercise: Instead of writing…She suddenly saw the snake out of the corner of her eye.…

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Divine Connections

Recently, I was a guest to a service group that does tremendous work in our community. A gentlemen, my friend and also one of my greatest cheerleaders for my life work had a couple suggestions for an upcoming project of mine. I took his advice, as I usually do and almost…

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Ben Simon, founder of Food Recovery Network

What an impressive imprint Ben is making in the world. Food Recovery Network is in 46 colleges to date and their mission is to be in 1,000 colleges by 2018! Ben Simon Founder Ben S. recently graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park. He brings six years of nonprofit…

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