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Karen Burns

How I've survived violent crap. And dancing

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29 Years of Marriage Later

Posted on June 6, 2022 By Karen Burns

29. years of marriage later and not much has changed. Hellooo! I’ve been writing and performing the story of my life for the past 3 1/2 years. To accomplish this epic feat, I’ve been hiding from my daily life and not writing anything here, or anywhere else really. Today, that…

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Kind Bean

Posted on June 30, 2019July 2, 2019 By karensburns

We believe the world needs a little more kindness and a little less chaos. It’s our promise to you that you’ll find that at Kind Bean every time you join us.” Jen and Clay, the owners of The Kind Bean  Have you been to The Kind Bean in Chandler yet?…

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It’s a Wonderful, Dented Life

Posted on January 24, 2019January 25, 2019 By karensburns

I bought my husband a bell for our 25th wedding anniversary last month. Thinking we could keep it up all year long and ring it whenever we needed to be reminded that we live a wonderful life, despite how it might seem sometimes. The first bell I bought didn’t ring….

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Tell Me Something Good

Posted on September 14, 2018October 1, 2018 By karensburns

What can you tell me about your good stuff? This blog is a place for good. But, good often comes out of struggles, pain, evil, lack, and on and on. Disaster gives us a chance to rise up and be better human beings and doings to make a difference. So…

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How to be Beautiful, Part 1

Posted on September 7, 2018October 2, 2018 By karensburns

Beauty Tip #1: Our beauty, or lack of, is always, merely the reflection of where we are directing our gaze.  For example: Beaming with pride for someone else.  I am photographed often in this particular state. I’m a wife, mother, teacher, general “lover of all things sweet and beautiful and…

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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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Karen Burns

Karen Burns

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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