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Karen Burns

How I've survived violent crap. And dancing

Month: August 2018

This is My Chandler

Posted on August 30, 2018October 2, 2018 By karensburns

“I am sick of having to look over my shoulder all the time. I want to live in a safer, gentler, happier world. What creature wouldn’t?” James Bowen from one of his fabulous books about his cat, Bob, and his recovery from heroin addiction. My husband just informed me we have lived…

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Funny Can Equal Kindness

Posted on August 20, 2018October 2, 2018 By karensburns

Kindness tip of the week:   look for the funny in everything and life is easier to handle. For example! The-Very-Patient-Husband accompanied me to a doctor’s appointment on Friday. It was a serious appointment, we were both a little nervous and became even more so when the nurse greeted us. She…

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BoxLunch and Happy Compassion

Posted on August 1, 2018January 8, 2019 By karensburns

We have a BoxLunch store at our local mall, Chandler Fashion Square. This store is a combination of business sense, whimsy and compassion.

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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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