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Uberboober Vs Formula Funbag: Choose Your Weapon

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How does one make a choice, when every choice is wrong?  More »

Is Abby Sutherland [sic] Just A Child Lost At Sea?

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Who the hell lets their 16-year-old daughter sail the ocean?  More »

How To Know When You’re NOT Ready To Pack Up & Go?

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Just ask yourself two very simple questions.  More »

What Does Life (Matador Life, that is) Mean To You?

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Help us determine the direction of the next six months of Life.  More »

My Birthday Challenge: What Can I Do For You?

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This year on my birthday, I offered to give gifts instead of receive. Yet, few people requested anything. Why?  More »

Does Freedom Lie In Doing Things You Hate?

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I can't. I don't like. It's not for me. Are these all just another way to say something else?  More »

On the Front Porch With A Gun, Waiting for the Black People to Come

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Did you assume something from my title? Let me tell you why you shouldn’t.  More »

Diving Deeply Into the Joy Of Deliberate Living

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Do you choose your life or does your life choose you? This question, asked in an article by Audrey Scott and Daniel Noll, prompts us all to wake up an  More »

What Will You Be Doing One Year From Today?

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New Year's eve holds significance for many of us as a time to renew, rethink and resolve to do things differently. Why now?  More »

Feminism Is Dead & James Chartrand Killed Her

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James Chartrand, Copyblogger contributor and founder of the ever successful Men With Pens is apparently a woman. He wears women's underpants, is the s  More »

Matador Life Comes Home

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Leigh Shulman takes Matador Life in a new direction.  More »

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