40 something girl living the Southern California dream. I’m kind of a political junkie and obsessed, as I say on the main page, with individual freedom, specifically how it leads to self empowerment.
It’s dismaying to me how much power we as free citizens in the U.S. willingly give to politicians in return for a false sense of security and meaning. An all encompassing, “compassionate” government is damaging to the inner spirit and eventually erodes self initiative and growth. I’m hoping this blog helps people to understand better why individual liberty was so important to our Founders and why it’s so essential today to keep our own style of government centrally focused on this.
I’m very much an animal lover and outdoors person and wouldn’t give up morning coffee if my life depended on it. Well, ok maybe then but not for much else. Â See ya on the blog!
Freedom Through Empowerment 
Thanks for your insightful and kind comments on my blog! I look forward to reading your blog posts as well.
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Hello and thanks for the follow I look forward to seeing more of your blog ! Happy 2015!
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You’re welcome and I look forward to seeing yours as well. Happy 2015 right back at ya!
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Thanks for the follow … Looks like you have some interesting thoughts to share, so I’ll stick around for a bit and read more. Look forward to enjoying dialog with you… 🙂
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I look forward to it too and thanks for the re-follow. 🙂
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Thanks for visiting and following my blog!
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Thanks Wally, look forward to seeing your posts!
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I have nominated you for The Versatile Blogger Award. This is my humble appreciation of your writing and I hope you will accept it.
Sincerely Saima Haq
Haqsaima.wordpress.com
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Hello Haqsaima and thank you so much for the award nomination, I so appreciate it. I’ve made a personal decision however not to participate in them any more. Good luck with your nomination, you deserve it! 😉
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I got here from the HR post. The images you have are beautiful. I’ll stay a while and have a look 😉
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Well thanks Laissez Faire, I appreciate your kind words! Thanks for stopping by and for the follow. 😉
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I have nominated you for the Liebster award yeah yeah – go on do it 😉 I love this blog x
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Well thank you jennym, much appreciated! I could not gree with you more on your number 6….when I’m away from the ocean too long I go pretty much batty….hide your valuables and small children! 😉
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Hi Tricia–I want to thank you for stopping in over on cookiecrumbstoliveby and for wanting to follow along on my life little adventures—your posts are insightful and most relevant to the times in which we find ourselves living–some days that living is harder than others—
I look forward to reading more of your thoughts–again, thank you—blessings and peace–Julie
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Well thanks Julie and blessings and peace to you as well. 🙂
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I used to agree with you on the coffee, but I’ve been converted to tea. Life takes you in some funny directions.
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Sure does! I’m a big tea drinker too but in the morning it must be coffee. Thx for stopping by.
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Hi Tricia
Just wanted to say that the reason I appear not to respond to your queries on ColorStorms blog is because my comments all go through moderation. Not all of them see the light of day.
I had actually given up commenting on his blog because I found it a futile exercise. Either the points I made were ignored, or I found the response was patronising (perhaps I am overly sensitive). But I am not aware of ever saying a cross word to him or saying anything that is false.
So I just wanted to explain that I had not ignored you.
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Not a problem Peter. Actually I just don’t have time to do a back and forth with you on this. I appreciate your perspective but I just disagree. Can you allow me that and just leave things there? Besides, I don’t think it’s much fair to take up any more space on CS blog with this. 🙂
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Thanks for your response Tricia. We will agree to disagree.
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I found your blog over at HarsH ReaLiTy! I’m looking forward to connecting.
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Hey William, I’m sorry I’m just seeing your kind note here now. Thanks so much for coming by and the follow. I’ve been following your blog too, you’ve got some great stuff!
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Hey there Tricia! Just clicking around the blogosphere and commenting on blogs that I think are fun and interesting, and you’re one of them. October is my birthday month, so consider this an invitation to my month-long birthday party. Hope to see you over at That’s So Jacob sometime!
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Well thanks for coming by Jacob, much appreciated! 😉
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Would you by any chance be interested in sharing your writings on a new site I’m putting together to help other writers gain more exposure and a wider audience? The material doesn’t have to be original (e.g. posts already published here) and links to author’s home sites (in their own posts) is something I plan on encouraging. The idea is, in a sense, to create a sort of networking and cross-promotion hub, but instead of being explicitly for that purpose I want to allow people to promote themselves through their actual content instead of just positive reviews, reblogs, etc.
The networking isn’t something contributors have to worry about either; the incentive for featuring material there is that I’ll be doing the footwork of building the platform and expanding the network *for* other people. If it sounds like something you might want to take part in, I’d be glad to have your writing featured there. The link, if you’re interested in checking it out: http://sutterpress.wordpress.com/ I’m looking to “launch” it in January and will be quietly building the platform and its reach, both before and after the intended start date.
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Hi Jack, that sounds interesting and I’d love to take part. I’ll take a look at your link later when I’ve got some time. Thanks for thinking of me for this!
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Cool. I’ll go ahead and send you an invite to the site (so you can post there when/if you want to) as soon as I figure out how that wordpress feature works 😀 .
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Nice to meet you and your blog thanks to Canuck Carl.
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Nice to meet you as well roughwighting. That Canuck Carl is a good man.
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Congratulations! I have nominated you for the Sunshine Blogger Award. Please visit Salvageable to learn more about this award. J.
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Being “obsessed” with individual liberty is not weird 🙂 Individual liberty, the preservation and expansion of it, is the cornerstone of a healthy and prosperous society and a powerful antidote to the poison of collectivism
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Agreed George and thanks for coming by!
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Where are you, are you still blogging informational necessities …? Key dates are now upon mankind.
Blessings.
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I’m stilll here but unfortunately haven’t had much time for blogging. I hope to get back to it soon though! Thanks for inquiring.
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