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Karen Burns

How I've survived violent crap. And dancing

Month: May 2013

Sit, Mom, Sit.: Well-Intentioned Poster Child

Posted on May 30, 2013 By karensburns

Sit, Mom, Sit.: Well-Intentioned Poster Child: A circa 1880’s poster with a picture of a can-can dancer in the midst of a high kick hung above my white-canopied bed, on the green ch…

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Well-Intentioned Poster Child

Posted on May 30, 2013 By karensburns

A circa 1880’s poster with a picture of a can-can dancer in the midst of a high kick hung above my white-canopied bed, on the green checked wallpapered walls of my girlhood bedroom. Every night, in the hours spent dreaming, these words hung over my head: Come See Karen Suzanne Can-Can Dancer…

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Sit, Mom, Sit.: Money To Go

Posted on May 28, 2013 By karensburns

Sit, Mom, Sit.: Money To Go: This is not an accurate depiction…. It seems to me that if you have money, there aren’t any inconveniences or problems to overcome…

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Money To Go

Posted on May 28, 2013 By karensburns

Stock pic,  not an accurate depiction…. It seems to me that if you have money, there aren’t any inconveniences or problems to overcome. Plumbing emergency? Call now. Fix now. Do not wait and cause more damage trying to save on the cost.  Drive one-day-old-brand-new-uninsured-car-you-never-in-a-million-years thought you could afford into the…

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The 1 % Legacy

Posted on May 3, 2013 By karensburns

 Mom is caught between who she is and who she wants to be I was supposed to be a trophy wife. It’s what my mother trained me to do. (I hope she unknowingly trained me in this and did not purposefully only give me the skills I’d need to trap…

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Karen Burns

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I live in a suburb next to an enormous Intel plant in a desert where I don't belong. My neighbors are techies, blue-collar football fanatics, gamblers, bankers, parents, sky-divers, nurses, pilots. I'm a dance, music and acting teacher, performer still, mother and wife hoping to be kind in this corner of my non-indigenous environment. I actually like living here. Most of the time.

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