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Sunday Funday, or no?

Hey friends! It is Saturday night on a cold winters’ eve, tomorrow will be Sunday morning, a cold winter morning, I am a good Christian girl but I have a dilemma of a biblical kind…Please visit Chicagonowbittersweet and help me out! (link below)

Until next time…..

http://www.chicagonow.com/bittersweet/2013/01/sunday-church-or-sunday-chill/

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Once a place of work, now an ice castle, next an empty lot

I have been in awe of the beautiful photos of the warehouse turned ice castle in Bridgeport. But I also see much more as I’m sure many others do as well.

Please visit me over at Bittersweet (link below).

like, share and comment. Please let me know you stopped by!

Until next time….

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The Other Side to be talked about on radio tomorrow!

Bill Moller radio host on WGN AM 720 will have an in-studio interview with Chris Reed, the young man from the suburbs who overcame all odds and stepped away from heroin and other drugs, with a few close friends who were also living the same destructive lifestyle..They have now found an innovative, young and fun way to stay sober and help others do the same. Please listen in to Bill, Chris and Steve at 10:20 a.m. Saturday morning!!! I know I will be listening!!

(Story link below)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/crystal_lake/ct-met-sober-nightclub-20130120,0,2130477.story

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Frigid temps and kindness pondered

It’s horribly, terribly, ridiculously stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid cold!!!!

And I’ve written out a small post on my thoughts tonight!

Please click over to  http://www.chicagonow.com/bittersweet/2013/01/oh-man-its-cold/

And please like, click and share and let me know you visited the Bittersweet site!

Until next time……..

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Amanda Marrazzo's avatarAmanda Marrazzo

I normally don’t post links to actual stories I’ve written in the Chicago Tribune, but this is an exception I think worthy to do so. This story (link below) is about a group of young guys who by many folks’ standards might be considered common delinquents, people many would write off as never going to do well or be productive members of society.

In my work I typically read and write stories about young people -even older people- who are alcoholics and drug addicts either dying from their addictions, stealing to support their addictions or killing another person in the process of their addictions.

But this story is quite the opposite of all we have come to know about young people abusing drugs and alcohol. And I am so proud and happy that I stumbeld  up on this story and was blessed with the opportunity to tell their story.

These…

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Saying something that actually matters, finally

As much as I try to avoid the Lance Armstrong show, it pops up all around me in the news.  Today something struck me and I probably wrote the quickest blog entry ever. Please click over to Bittersweet (link below) and comment, like and share. Also, there is a new feature on the right hand side of Bittersweet. Please dear friends enter your email address and let me know if you receive notices from Chicago Now when I post blogs.

See you soon! Thank you for your support.

http://www.chicagonow.com/bittersweet/2013/01/the-one-thing-i-do-believe-was-real/#/

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Recovery, humanity and celebrity

Hi friends – what a cold week it has been! I hope you all are keeping warm.

Please click over to Bittersweet and read my latest blog on true recovery versus celebrity (so-called) confessions. Please comment, click and share Bittersweet!

See you soon!

http://www.chicagonow.com/bittersweet/2013/01/true-humanity-in-the-face-of-recovery-not-celebrity/

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OUCH!!!

Hi friends, click over to Bittersweet and read a little somethin’ somethin’ I wrote about a day that began with great friends and great intentions and is currently ending in great pain and fatigue!

http://www.chicagonow.com/bittersweet/2013/01/why-does-she-hate-me/

We’ll visit again soon!

Love each other!