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Words That Just Make Everyone Uncomfortable

Dictionaries

I love words; I really do. The right words in the right hands can give expression to the part of man that mirrors God. But some words are just incurably, gratuitously dumb.  Read more >

Piercing My Nose. Or Not.

Nose Piercing

This was going to be a story of feminism and self-ownership: The search for my nose began as a child. Mine was round and very unlike my mother's regal Roman nose. My birth father was long gone, but old photographs bore evidence of a nose bent and flattened from repeated breaking, a hazard of soccer and Spanish blood run hot. My nose did not have the narrow British look of my grandmother's nor the prominent Italian bulge of my grandfather's. It had no match, no ancestry, no belonging.  Read more >

Dear Santa: A Parent's Un-wish List

Santa's Wish List

Dear Santa, Some time in the next few days, you will receive a letter detailing an extensive list of wishes from my children. Before acting on it in any manner, please carefully consider my preemptive list of un-wishes.  Read more >

Lessons Learned from a First Year of Blogging

Blogging

I set out to write a blog that was truly candid, but that meant taking risks with where my audience might draw lines, and as I said above, I only started giving a slightly smaller shit what people though t-- I didn't quit caring altogether. So one of the most freeing things I've learned is that, although I keep them in mind, my audience doesn't shape my writing -- I do.  Read more >

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Full Name
Tamara Lunardo
Member Since
April 2010
About Me: 

I write the blog Tamara Out Loud. Be warned: I talk about Jesus and I use grownup words. If you're offended by either, mine might not be the blog for you. Then again, maybe it really is.

Profession: 
Stay-at-home-mom, freelance writer and editor
Location: 
Florida
School Tags: 

University of Florida, BA English

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