I recently posted the photographs below to a group on Flickr; an image and video website used to share personal photographs. The following day I received an email informing me that I had been banned from the ………… group. No explanantion as to why, or the name of a contact if I chose to inquire, was provided in the email. I appreciate there are guidelines, but this felt somewhat drastic. Straight out of an episode of ‘Survivor’ [insert Jeff Proust's v/o here]. “The tribe has spoken……you have been banished from the group and must immediately return to your photostream“. What’s a girl to do? How does she console herself and gather the strength to carry the stigma of a lifetime Flickr group ban? With a couple of cherry pull-n-peel Twizzlers! My go to food whenever I’m faced with a crisis (or anytime with tea)!
So, here’s to not taking life, or ourselves too seriously. 
A new year begins, bringing new adventures, new beginnings, the opening of new doors and propelling us one step closer to fulfilling our dreams. Most of us in the northern hemisphere start the new year bundled up in the warmth to escape the frigid temperatures and winter storms. Not so for the Polar Bear Club dippers, who strip down and plunge into icy waters to raise money for various charitable organizations. Here is an invigorating video posted on iReport for CNN of the Polar Bear Swim in Vancouver, British Columbia on January 1, 2010.
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