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Ann's stuff
My blog
My Other Body book page on Amazon
A Better World (back to top of page)
Looking for ways to help, give, volunteer? One small, humble deed means more than the best and biggest intention.
Charity Navigator - a site where you can browse, check out, or check up on charities
Body and Fitness back to top of page
Forget the self-incrimination. It just plain feels good to move around, have less stress, and switch to high-grade fuel.
Cool Running's Couch-to-5K Running Plan
Master's Swim - start swimming
Yoga basics - this site also shows lots of poses
Kundalini yoga sets from Golden Bridge
Cycling for Women - click through the chapters of this online book
Active.com - good starting point for lots of sports and activities
Girls on the Run
Walking - Starting a walking habit; has some illustrations of basic stretches
Mental Health back to top of page
Suicide Read This First
Depression Screening
Mental self-help tools and techniques from the Cyber Psychologist
Body Image (from the Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center)
Body Positive - Boosting Body Image at Any Weight
Love Your Body Day (from the NOW Foundation)
AboutFace.org
Other Directions for Thought & Action back to top of page
Junkfood Science - Critical examinations of studies and news on food, weight, health, and healthcare
Disordered Times - news on eating disorders from a disordered perspective
First, Do No Harm - Real stories of fat prejudice in health care
The F-Word - Start here and follow the blog links to read many voices on fat, eating, size, and health
Toward Sensitive Treatment of Obese Patients (American Academy of Family Physicians, 2002)
Books, Writing, and Publishing back to top of page
The world of reading is moving in directions other than books, but for now the industry still thinks of the book as the unit of published thought.
Liberal Arts back to top of page
Here's my passion.
Random Research back to top of page
What good is a map if you can't be all over it.
Web Travels back to top of page
The harder-to-categorize items.
My blog
My Other Body book page on Amazon
A Better World (back to top of page)
Looking for ways to help, give, volunteer? One small, humble deed means more than the best and biggest intention.
Charity Navigator - a site where you can browse, check out, or check up on charities
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Animals
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American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Animal Protective Association of Missouri
Puppies Behind Bars - program for inmates to train guide and service dogs
Humane Farming Association - against factory farming and slaughterhouse abuses
Care/Respite back to top of page
Hospice - all about hospice services and locate a hospice near you
Kansas City Hospice - lots of ways to volunteer
Tips on visiting nursing homes and More tips on visiting nursing homes
Ronald McDonald House
Solace House - grief support for children in the KC area
Childhood back to top of page
Give What You Got - clearinghouse program for items needed by kids in foster homes
Sunflower House - a child abuse prevention center
Reach Out and Read - national program puts kids' books and volunteer readers in doctors' waiting rooms
American Indian Youth Running Strong
Best Buddies - a mentorship program for youth with intellectual disabilities
Environment back to top of page
The Green Plan for the Food Service Industry - reducing food waste
CoEvolution Institute - for the stewardship of biodiversity
American Bird Conservancy
American Rivers - Note the date: National river cleanup kicks off on May 31st
Earth Day Network
Environmental Law and Policy Center
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Human Rights back to top of page
Stop Torture project - the American Friends Service Committee (aka Quakers)
Human Rights Watch
Amnesty International - goes to the list of issues you can write letters about
Amnesty USA's Denounce Torture project
America's Literacy Directory - look up a literacy program near you
Literacy Kansas City
Hunger & Poverty back to top of page
Action Against Hunger - national program; good place to learn more
Harvesters - the Kansas City food bank
Wasted Food - a site dedicated to reducing food waste and building food recovery efforts
Poverty.com
FreeRice - 10 grains of rice donated through the UN for every vocabulary word you get right
Body and Fitness back to top of page
Forget the self-incrimination. It just plain feels good to move around, have less stress, and switch to high-grade fuel.
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Care and Feeding
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National Farmer's Market Directory
The USDA Food and Nutrition Site
The Nutrition Source (Harvard School of Public Health
Slow Food USA
The Something Fishy Site on Eating Disorders
Eating Disorder Hope
Cool Running's Couch-to-5K Running Plan
Master's Swim - start swimming
Yoga basics - this site also shows lots of poses
Kundalini yoga sets from Golden Bridge
Cycling for Women - click through the chapters of this online book
Active.com - good starting point for lots of sports and activities
Girls on the Run
Walking - Starting a walking habit; has some illustrations of basic stretches
Mental Health back to top of page
Suicide Read This First
Depression Screening
Mental self-help tools and techniques from the Cyber Psychologist
Body Image (from the Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center)
Body Positive - Boosting Body Image at Any Weight
Love Your Body Day (from the NOW Foundation)
AboutFace.org
Other Directions for Thought & Action back to top of page
Junkfood Science - Critical examinations of studies and news on food, weight, health, and healthcare
Disordered Times - news on eating disorders from a disordered perspective
First, Do No Harm - Real stories of fat prejudice in health care
The F-Word - Start here and follow the blog links to read many voices on fat, eating, size, and health
Toward Sensitive Treatment of Obese Patients (American Academy of Family Physicians, 2002)
Books, Writing, and Publishing back to top of page
The world of reading is moving in directions other than books, but for now the industry still thinks of the book as the unit of published thought.
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Books and writers
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The tourist map of literature - enter a writer's name to see the cloud of related writers
Backstory - authors tell the stories that sparked their fiction or memoirs
Kirkus Reviews
New York Review of Books
Author Webliography - links to resources on authors
Author Yellow Pages - search for an author's web site
Modern Library's Top 100 Books Lists
You Must Read This - NPR's series on authors recommending books
Independent bookstores back to top of page
Prospero's Bookstore - Kansas City
Rainy Day Books - Kansas City
Full Circle Books - Oklahoma City
Duck's Cottage - Duck, North Carolina
Shaman Drum Books - Ann Arbor, Michigan
Powell's Books - Portland, Oregon
Self-publishing back to top of page
Para Publishing's extensive resources for self-publishing
Tips from the Small Publishers, Artists, and Writers Network
Self-Publishers FAQ from Creative Minds Press
Aaron Shepard's Publishing Page
Midwest Book Review Advice for Writers and Publishers
Writing business back to top of page
Poets & Writers
Publisher's Lunch
Publisher's Weekly
Jobs in Publishing
The Rejecter - written by an assistant at a literary agency
Pub Rants - Literary agent blog
Writer Beware - watchdog of scams and schemes
Backspace - articles for working writers
Miss Snark - this agent's blog is now offline, but the archives are invaluable
Liberal Arts back to top of page
Here's my passion.
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History
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Best of History web sites - a portal to all things history
Delancey Place - excellent daily emails with brief nonfiction excerpts, typically 20th century history
StoryCorps
Oral History Centers and Collections
Historians and Philosophers annotated list
Literature back to top of page
Poets.org
Poetry Daily
HipHopPoetry
BlackLiterature.com
Asian Literature Resources
Latino Literature
African Literature
Fiction and Poetry from the Atlantic Monthly
Glimmer Train
Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database
Flash Fiction Online
Music back to top of page
aworks - notes on new American classical music
The Red Hot Jazz Archive
Trouser Press - the "Bible" of alternative rock
Free Sheet Music Guide - links to sites for downloads of sheet music
Ken Burns's Jazz
Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog from the American Folklife Center
Theory back to top of page
Literary Theory Resources - extensive links list from the University of California-Santa Barbara
Craft and Theory of Poetry
Portal to Literary Theory Resources on the web
Johns Hopkins Literary Theory Encyclopedia
Visual & Plastic Arts back to top of page
Art History Resources on the Web
The Museum of Online Museums
Magnum Photos
VII Photos
Jen Mellard Photos
Random Research back to top of page
What good is a map if you can't be all over it.
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Random research for my blog
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How Stuff Works: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Fred Rogers' Dartmouth Address
The life story of Hermann Zapf
Random research for my novels back to top of page
Baking and Baking Science
The 1971 Sears Catalog
Gay 80s in Review
Sports Shooter
Web Travels back to top of page
The harder-to-categorize items.
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Blogs
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Shakesville
reappropriate
PostSecret
She Eats!
Margaret Cho's blog
Avoiding the Muse
Sites back to top of page
The Root
Culture Wars
The National Weather Service - Great features: the tabular forecast and the forecast discussion
The Sun (a magazine of ideas)
I can has cheezburger
Blue Raddish
The Fishgoth Origami Page
The Guardian