tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61327697447350783892024-03-12T16:42:39.990-07:00newsMalinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-6074096109231846792011-12-21T19:15:00.000-08:002011-12-21T19:20:47.666-08:00'Boaz Behaving Badly' -- essay in the International Journal of New Male StudiesPlease check it out. It's about my favorite little boy ever. <br /><br />http://newmalestudies.com/OJS/index.php/nms/article/view/11/6Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-71396674980283222412011-10-19T16:45:00.001-07:002011-10-19T16:45:09.354-07:00Stationery card<div class="sflyProductPreviewWidget" style="width:425px; height:494px;"><div class="sflyProductPreviewWidgetTop" style="height:6px; background-image:url(http://cdn.staticsfly.com/img_/share/preview/msc/widget/top.gif);"></div><div class="sflyProductPreviewWidgetCenter" style="height:482px; padding: 0 6px 0 6px; background-image:url(http://cdn.staticsfly.com/img_/share/preview/msc/widget/bg.gif); background-repeat:repeat-y;"><div class="sflyProductPreviewLogo" style="width: 105px; height: 34px; padding: 14px 0 0 14px;"><img src="http://cdn.staticsfly.com/img_/share/preview/msc/widget/logo.gif" style="padding: 0; background: #ffffff; border: none; box-shadow: none;"></div><div class="sflyProductPreviewContainer" style="height:350px; 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font-size: 13px; color: #333333;"><span>View the entire <a href="http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery" style="color: #6666cc;">collection</a> of cards.</span></div><img width="1" height="1" border="0" style="padding: 0; background: #ffffff; border: none; box-shadow: none;" src="https://os.shutterfly.com/b/ss/sflyshareprod/1/H.15/111?pageName=sharekey&c1=msc&c2=blogger" /></div></div><div class="sflyProductPreviewWidgetBottom" style="height:6px; background-image:url(http://cdn.staticsfly.com/img_/share/preview/msc/widget/bottom.gif);"></div></div>Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-1765360702933683322011-10-18T23:24:00.001-07:002011-10-18T23:29:33.890-07:00ALL IMAGES © MALINA MINDELL PHOTOGRAPHY<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj47x8PyvV7fPTMySZgg4p3_lZdGCs11Ax5-ZoIsPHQ0VR18dLngbVVlCneRs_mFX-LtsjHNKiJKMseoZgCdfEMMmniVMMSvD-mMhf1JfRP4G4ZgP3NnPpk6_UBf84dYDZHro8KhsfTGK_c/s1600/DSC_3954+copy.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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<br />I'm on the fourth installments of my monthly column SPONSORED IN PART. Will post first three soon. But for now, how amazing is this pic by the inimitable illustrator Danny Jock?
<br />Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-7658194646930778702011-07-18T10:47:00.000-07:002011-07-18T10:49:00.468-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrE2aQYSS6z700g3IsTM46FoadgWGR5uqdVIByNS2kOiMqWfPbNgc-BK5vM10b8PD79kglzKpiwpfidwssKPdj6XILuqfVCagZaD6oH5yAl7GGeIm9ZtnwnSZpEMyNgLV63fih_vGe0PIP/s1600/DSC_8824.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrE2aQYSS6z700g3IsTM46FoadgWGR5uqdVIByNS2kOiMqWfPbNgc-BK5vM10b8PD79kglzKpiwpfidwssKPdj6XILuqfVCagZaD6oH5yAl7GGeIm9ZtnwnSZpEMyNgLV63fih_vGe0PIP/s400/DSC_8824.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630750807016590962" /></a>Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-85409382908480221892011-06-18T23:22:00.001-07:002011-06-18T23:26:50.003-07:00GIGI CHERRY<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbBLkH3FOu3P5fC-cOUsmhQyOuCWsXdKwprhN7MXo60TVz19FCSTMG8d-A659qCXWmS6s4R-gZQ4KN0KDfZEa_F3E-X1RUO_SD18wK96HtJuCsvSqpBNSe8JQ0FGROuPX6bGmjOzgJ-cm/s1600/DSC_7099.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkOnZTVU8AaXLZTYSRmakAwIvQuxxPM74EP_o1fSuJndmPdBcIT-s6nFfyzfl2HYAQvkHZgC1Wb6aoTL0S72dZnwCLaJKBRbY6VRlGrPCaN4YctV-SgThB32Xf8GZIjNYR2NwkedEUUfhB/s400/DSC_2286.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548785465576576706" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"></span>Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-1162906904502286082010-12-02T10:14:00.001-08:002010-12-02T10:15:35.351-08:00WOULD MAKE A GREAT MOVIE--EXCEPE THEY ALREADY MADE ONE (SIGH)World War II Resistance Fighter Steps Forward to Tell Story<br /><br />By Malina Saval, Chabad.edu<br /><br />Dec 2, 2010 8:30 AM<br />Growing up, Rabbi Zev Johnson was regaled by his grandmother Leah Bedzowki Johnson’s compelling and harrowing accounts of the two years spent hiding in the Belarusian forest as a Nazi resistance fighter during World War II.<br /><br />“I always looked up to my Bubba,” says Johnson – the last name is an anglicized version of the original surname Yonson – affectionately plying the Yiddish term for ‘grandmother.’ “She stood up for physical resistance against all odds. The reason I’m alive today is because of her.”<br /><br />On Nov. 16, Johnson, the on-campus rabbi at the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center at the University of Texas, hosted his grandmother as a guest lecturer at the Austin center. Before a crowd of an estimated 100 people, the feisty survivor recounted her experience as a member of the famed Bielski Brigade, a Jewish partisan group responsible for saving the lives of 1,200 men, women and children and considered the single largest rescue of Jews by Jews during the Holocaust.<br /><br /><br />“She inspired a lot of us,” says Alix Schliker, a UT business major. “ ‘Know who are you,’ she told us. ‘Don’t be afraid of being Jewish.’ It was a universal message to fight for what you believe in.”<br /><br />“She kept saying, ‘We survived for you,’ ” echoes UT senior Dahlia Hellman. “I always find it fascinating that people could live through this and still be so positive.”<br /><br />For decades a story largely untold, the Bielski Brigade, led by brothers Tuvia, Zus and Asael, was chronicled in director Ed Zwick’s 2009 film “Defiance” and in the History Channel documentary “The Bielski Brothers.” But it’s only over the past year that Bedzowksi Johnson has taken her personal story public.<br /><br />“All my people are dying off,” she explains of her decision to tackle the lecture circuit. “Soon the Bielski resistance group will be forgotten. I’m doing this so the world knows, because for so long nobody knew. We were fighting for our lives. We were saving other Jews.”<br /><br />Contrary to the deep-seated misconception that all the Holocaust’s victims marched like cattle to the gas chambers, there were 20,000 to 30,000 Jewish resistance fighters during World War II. What differentiated the Bieski Brigade from other groups was its aim to save all Jews, not only the able-bodied ones fit for physical battle. The goal was to save as many people as possible.<br /><br />“There was a boy of three,” Bedzowki Johnson remembers. “There was a boy of two.”<br /><br /><br />Rabbi Zev Johnson, on-campus rabbi at the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center applauds his grandmother’s speech.<br />She was 16 in 1939, the year the Germans stormed Lida, the Belarusian city in which she and her family lived. They were sitting shiva, the seven-day period of ritual mourning, for Bedzowski Johnson’s father – “It was the last Jewish funeral in Lida,” she recounts – when the city started to burn.<br /><br />Initially, they fled to villages on the outskirts of town, taken in by a series of gentile farmers. But when the Germans issued a decree forcing all Jews back to Lida, Bedzowki Johnson’s family found itself ensconced in a ramshackle hut on the edge of the impoverished, barb-wired ghetto.<br /><br />“We had no food,” she glumly recalls of the eight-month period. “We had nothing.”<br /><br />They soon got word of Hitler’s master plan to annihilate the Jewish people. “We didn’t know what to do,” says Bedzowki Johnson. “Then one day, a gentile man who was with Tuvia Bielski brought a note advising my mother to come the forest.”<br /><br />Their escape facilitated by that same man, Bedzowski Johnson and her siblings – two brothers and a sister – took to the woods. (Their mother joined soon after.) They ran for two days straight, disappearing deeper and deeper into the forest.<br /><br />“What we did would not have been possible without our commander, Tuvia Bielski,” Bedsowski Johnson affirms. “He was our king. He was everything for us. With him, we knew that we were okay.”<br /><br />She was 20 when she met Wolf Yonson, known to partisans by his alias, “Wolf the machine gunner.” They were married in the woods in the early part of 1943.<br /><br />Bedzowki Johnson and her two brothers survived the war. Sonia, their sister, was captured by the Nazis. (They later heard she was sent to Majdanek, a death camp in Poland.) After logging time in a displacement camp in Torino, Italy, Bedzowski Johnson and Yonson eventually settled in Montréal where they raised three children.<br /><br />“There are survivors who choose to remain silent,” says Murray Johnson, their son. “Then there are those that choose to tell their stories. My parents spoke openly about their experiences so as to create an awareness that this never happens again.”<br /><br />For Bedzowki Johnson, slated to appear at Jewish-affiliated venues across the United States, continued silence is not an option.<br /><br />“I’m doing this for my children and their children,” she declares, a slight catch in her throat. “They should not be ashamed to say, ‘I am Jewish.’ They should fight for their rights. They should know who they are. This is our history. And many people do not know. They ask, ‘Is it possible what happened?’ It’s possible. Sometimes I’m staring in the mirror looking at myself and even I don’t believe.”Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-78296547575725670722010-11-15T16:10:00.001-08:002010-11-15T16:11:37.882-08:00Pizza Party Princess<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikeU0Thok6l1JsADrmkB7jgcWMXNzJt2ZBhO0dNEsjRUyK1MadTpSFv_DN34N2KbGiOaBn1guvQDYbYzJFiPZyKxC8OhkjHUncS7bGzcU58Vk2Zy-chaH7xvcJl_6MWWgzS9SFMW6gCcRc/s1600/DSC_1343.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikeU0Thok6l1JsADrmkB7jgcWMXNzJt2ZBhO0dNEsjRUyK1MadTpSFv_DN34N2KbGiOaBn1guvQDYbYzJFiPZyKxC8OhkjHUncS7bGzcU58Vk2Zy-chaH7xvcJl_6MWWgzS9SFMW6gCcRc/s400/DSC_1343.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539933533618849890" /></a>Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-25968011911895419152010-10-18T14:34:00.000-07:002010-10-18T14:37:39.238-07:00OP-ED PIECE ON FOXNEWS.COMWe Cannot Afford to Ignore the Loneliness of Teenage Boys<br />By Malina Saval<br />Published October 18, 2010 | FoxNews.com<br />The spate of gay teen suicides this past September has opened a floodgate of fear, worry, and anger. Parents, teachers, and students all across America are wondering why it happened, whose fault it is, and what we can do to stop it.<br /><br />Pushed to the brink by anti-gay bullies and aggressive acts of homosexual harassment, teens like Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi, 13-year-old Seth Walsh from Tehachapi, California, and 19-year-old Zach Harrington from Norman, Oklahoma, ended their own lives rather than suffer hatred and humiliation at the hands of peers, classmates and school administrators who seemed to do nothing at all to protect them.<br /><br />Gay teen suicide has since become a spotlight issue in the media, sparking increased awareness of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues, and spawning a celebrity-studded, anti-bullying campaign in which such gay and straight-allies as Ellen DeGeneres, Sarah Silverman and Tim Gunn assure GLBT youth that “it gets better.”<br /><br />And it does. And it will. But the tragic fallout of gay teen bullying is also a jarring wake-up call to the overarching problems that have long plagued teenage boys—gay and straight—and made them particularly vulnerable to a collective sense of loneliness, isolation and despair.<br /><br />Primarily, I want to speak of loneliness because it’s a recurring theme that cuts throughout teenage boyhood culture in America. When I was writing my book, “The Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw, Emotional World of Male Teens,” I met countless boys from all walks of life that felt as though they were all alone. For them, loneliness was a pox upon male adolescence.<br /><br />Nobody understood them they lamented, but nobody was interested in what they had to say. Their parents tried, but they too often compared themselves to when they were kids, even though the lives they were living were drastically different. The parents weren’t open to admitting that they don’t know what it’s like to be young -- not now anyway -- where cyber bullying and sexting provide a maelstrom of overwhelming social distractions.<br /><br />In the outside world, in books and in movies, male teen stereotyping had sullied these boys’ reputations. Their silence was misinterpreted. They were blasted for being insensitive, cold, and cruel when in reality they were emotional sieves, romantic even. <br /><br />When it came to broken relationships, the boys that I met did not suffer rejection or heartbreak lightly. They wanted love, just like everybody else. They felt frustrated, sad and confused. They felt alienated in their despair. “There aren’t any guys out there who get me,” was a common refrain. “I’m different. I don’t know any boys that are like me.”<br /><br />I spoke at length with an 18-year-old struggling with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. For the longest time he couldn’t talk to anybody about it, lest they think he was “crazy.” He’d walk across bridges, peer down at the concrete below, and thought often of killing himself to escape his pain and embarrassment (according to statistics, boys between the ages of fifteen and nineteen are four times as likely to die by suicide than girls).<br /><br />I interviewed a boy diagnosed with severe psychiatric behavioral problems that was erroneously pegged a drug addict by school administrators because of the way he acted. As a result, he lost trust in teachers, became deeply depressed and had given up on trying to make friends. I met a gay teen that went through a period where he slept with guys he didn’t like. “I only did it with them because I was lonely,” he explained.<br /><br />All the boys, without exception, at one time or another, felt like they were living in their own private world. Their schools encouraged cliques (often unwittingly), they told me. Even if they were in the popular crowd, they still felt like outcasts.<br /><br />When I informed the boys that I’d met that there others who were a lot like them in so many different ways, some were so surprised they went slack with disbelief. One brightly suggested that I throw a party where they could hang out and get a chance to know one another without the conflicts and constructs of school. Perhaps they could break down barriers.<br /><br />We might never know exactly why Tyler Clementi, Zach Harrison and Seth Walsh killed themselves—shame, guilt, sadness? But what we do know, and what I discovered while writing my book, is that during such dark episodes, friendships have the potential to keep boys afloat.<br /><br />When boys found a close confidant, an ally in which to confide, their moods and spirits improved drastically. They felt safer, less isolated, and their self-esteem increased ten-fold. Their loneliness melted away, they summoned strength to live. The boy with OCD who contemplated suicide spoke frankly of how much his best friend meant to him: “He literally saved my life.”Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-37698531604681639332010-10-14T23:09:00.001-07:002010-10-14T23:10:22.449-07:00CANDY AT THE PUMPKIN FESTIVAL<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEs7cmZD3_YTHG28Yp7U05czwaMkzMFvrnO5Yde_4JvRX0D0ABtZWRESyU9GFA7OQMKdLjz8Fajt-P8JdXiGaEnxWhktXfcO9jc6p3z79ffjzR_1RwTLFBdsN2Op4Vekmap7PfzFJ-CtMY/s1600/DSC_9698.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEs7cmZD3_YTHG28Yp7U05czwaMkzMFvrnO5Yde_4JvRX0D0ABtZWRESyU9GFA7OQMKdLjz8Fajt-P8JdXiGaEnxWhktXfcO9jc6p3z79ffjzR_1RwTLFBdsN2Op4Vekmap7PfzFJ-CtMY/s400/DSC_9698.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5528151256806048738" /></a>Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-14603701001926134482010-09-19T17:22:00.000-07:002010-09-19T17:32:55.912-07:00UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDalQm3oehGNIc2jmt3t_y6vUCxbayjlc-XBIRUAJ8hErdY4gvKN1E6UWXsxmDAFlYVd7T3kz40f4QDb6cENkh4yYTY8IrUL1v88FGRYyKGSkrIpEUU9VQSsc-RARnws_dyOPyAmM9ufQF/s1600/DSC_9053.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDalQm3oehGNIc2jmt3t_y6vUCxbayjlc-XBIRUAJ8hErdY4gvKN1E6UWXsxmDAFlYVd7T3kz40f4QDb6cENkh4yYTY8IrUL1v88FGRYyKGSkrIpEUU9VQSsc-RARnws_dyOPyAmM9ufQF/s400/DSC_9053.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518787163411569170" /></a><br />Appearing OCTOBER 27 speaking about "The Secret Lives of Boys." Should be a really amazing time, huge crowd. Can't wait. In the meantime, here's Ayla trying to figure out what I should plan to talk about during my lecture. Hmmm?Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-53330925828198987792010-09-13T19:29:00.000-07:002010-09-13T19:31:16.278-07:00One of my new Variety piecesAndrew Lincoln logs life into 'Dead'<br /><br />'Love Actually' co-star to make U.S. TV splash in AMC series<br /><br />By MALINA SAVAL<br /><br />Andrew Lincoln was born into the world with a far less celebrity-friendly surname: Clutterbuck.<br /><br />"Why do you think I changed it?" he jokes of the clunky old English moniker. "My first agent laughed and said to me, 'If I sign you, you can't have that name.' "<br /><br />When the new AMC drama "The Walking Dead" premieres in October, Lincoln is the name that American audiences will remember.<br /><br />"It's an amazing role," says the British import -- who made a splash in Richard Curtis' "Love, Actually" and in the cult hit U.K. TV series "This Life" -- of his first foray into American television. "It's a real honor to be involved in it."<br /><br />Exec produced by writer-director Frank Darabont and Gale Anne Hurd, "Walking Dead" is based on Robert Kirkman's best-selling graphic novels and revolves around Rick Grimes (Lincoln), a Georgia cop that shepherds a group of survivors in an apocalyptic world overtaken by zombies.<br /><br />"It reads like a Greek play," says Lincoln of the thriller. "It's so high-stakes in the world that they are inhabiting. It's all life or death, and this always makes for high drama."<br /><br />Lincoln began acting in Bath, England, at age 14, playing the Artful Dodger in his all-boy private school production of "Oliver." He then joined the National Youth Theater of Great Britain.<br /><br />"I was fully infected by the virus," he says of the realization that acting was his calling. When it came time for university, the budding thesp enrolled at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.<br /><br />Ironically, it wasn't Lincoln's resume but the birth of his son that helped him nail the "Dead" audition.<br /><br />"I'm absolutely convinced I got this gig because I hadn't slept in two weeks," he cheerfully recalls of the long, late nights with a newborn. "I looked apocalyptic and gaunt. It was very 'zombie chic.' (Darabont) must have thought, 'This guy is the real deal.' " <br /><br />Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com.<br /><br /><br /><br />Read more: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118024095.html?categoryid=4127&cs=1&query=malina+saval+#ixzz0zT1TRnHn <br />Visit Variety.com to become a Variety subscriber. <span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span>Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-71584023008401490912010-09-04T11:17:00.001-07:002010-09-04T11:17:54.149-07:00Have a Coke and a Grimace<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpLqKe9j2hKNr0sHC0OPMVb62uInMQTxi2RHmTGvFEfQ8RzVV2Gg6NH-z98k1W-tT8xXQkMcMfM48DlOcuPgK0qAcz5WSqzMg9Mlu6n5X2PYVfFPxpitptKkBkOnnL3RRGbEwJk_eSqjwz/s1600/DSC_8861.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpLqKe9j2hKNr0sHC0OPMVb62uInMQTxi2RHmTGvFEfQ8RzVV2Gg6NH-z98k1W-tT8xXQkMcMfM48DlOcuPgK0qAcz5WSqzMg9Mlu6n5X2PYVfFPxpitptKkBkOnnL3RRGbEwJk_eSqjwz/s400/DSC_8861.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513124252626145602" /></a>Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-29506420187451515922010-08-23T08:51:00.001-07:002010-08-23T08:56:37.865-07:00Balloons<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicp0dF5k8V2C3aYGQv5K0dmjNrG5rpHjfBF101Ql5ViGzHzDYmFp58BrusF4ZiChVrAJOaS8G6VLMOJDDB3UXFvAEgz4wrunZVl6AjOsnw32vExxyvo8wp8bcklO_o1lW7uzLN1v0CuZtm/s1600/DSC_8614.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicp0dF5k8V2C3aYGQv5K0dmjNrG5rpHjfBF101Ql5ViGzHzDYmFp58BrusF4ZiChVrAJOaS8G6VLMOJDDB3UXFvAEgz4wrunZVl6AjOsnw32vExxyvo8wp8bcklO_o1lW7uzLN1v0CuZtm/s400/DSC_8614.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508634817396061986" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghbBZtZs9MN6FhVrtz6drmQhVkh8wKI4NFPEisboS4dNnJnw8fvob2-Nx7Q3jcwdztJRWZ7XBaNEINd3qrqVk3-dToYeFMqJBRLGNH-cNJBhvTj917XAjUSTQFJtDWJD8zl9RtkGlLQkAq/s1600/DSC_8610.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghbBZtZs9MN6FhVrtz6drmQhVkh8wKI4NFPEisboS4dNnJnw8fvob2-Nx7Q3jcwdztJRWZ7XBaNEINd3qrqVk3-dToYeFMqJBRLGNH-cNJBhvTj917XAjUSTQFJtDWJD8zl9RtkGlLQkAq/s400/DSC_8610.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508634812136189186" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_D_WFIl8HQuNo33CEy9chtxzIrP-QYyJUjGtMWCNMVtxtYLTCwoe8WY1hKMsollsK-tJtlqo4dkN9J7QoYvaneglPcg4k0A4-PI4aYJ5bRoujYqdb6q4nER4J5cKpc_mOX0_Kr__7qcx/s1600/DSC_8608.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF_D_WFIl8HQuNo33CEy9chtxzIrP-QYyJUjGtMWCNMVtxtYLTCwoe8WY1hKMsollsK-tJtlqo4dkN9J7QoYvaneglPcg4k0A4-PI4aYJ5bRoujYqdb6q4nER4J5cKpc_mOX0_Kr__7qcx/s400/DSC_8608.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508634801576698146" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Dr1aw2p8Qimca4UeDjLLAntHt3oFqS8kWMF5DW-UrxU389AwH4rHavMHmgb8U1Ha63xO69l8KXa4MtdvdlWIIdw4QoS_3t6MJT3pnoXtpZlUJUoXRaX9wEdqzxXE37dcMA-UkoRrbMDf/s1600/DSC_8605.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Dr1aw2p8Qimca4UeDjLLAntHt3oFqS8kWMF5DW-UrxU389AwH4rHavMHmgb8U1Ha63xO69l8KXa4MtdvdlWIIdw4QoS_3t6MJT3pnoXtpZlUJUoXRaX9wEdqzxXE37dcMA-UkoRrbMDf/s400/DSC_8605.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508633773292079794" /></a>Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-75558588097528257192010-08-13T15:42:00.001-07:002010-08-13T15:49:17.624-07:00OH, BOUYANT!<span style="font-style:italic;">They are becoming full-fledged fish (sans the fins). And I loved photographing the blues, greens and oranges!<br /></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdHdsslqRamdJRbSrsRvCYBBtjHnnVDrH42sEN4F-Jkd-bgFQrWf46zN0duYKBLY_dhiXV7HDdzaOdmoHVQlM3GYZbOkvIkPcvI1lNSKYOKesm-svtAwk4RqYdlfdAq0Rcwz9UQjGrCkvL/s1600/DSC_7789.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdHdsslqRamdJRbSrsRvCYBBtjHnnVDrH42sEN4F-Jkd-bgFQrWf46zN0duYKBLY_dhiXV7HDdzaOdmoHVQlM3GYZbOkvIkPcvI1lNSKYOKesm-svtAwk4RqYdlfdAq0Rcwz9UQjGrCkvL/s400/DSC_7789.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505029668694281522" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicvIzSXkhXXRh-LldehSnGWB5gIePb-DMEdn0nca_Y1Vb3sZaTLb8ra8sFwbdryr0NzAfU9DKEcqj43beMyisFSGPpfbM5ILh2WgNlLGmaHSiKHePZvQFpYKbxVTK1EVwPgTMqTUyGncdu/s1600/DSC_7762.JPG"><img style="float:right; 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margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXigZcOLkzCk98pFwfcKbSKLQXzTOBpjInv4m41TdrvrUPyxY7bwj1j6zW56cBTEgm-c3gbBiQzjtHn6EUBuIeYrsyfL4mdptm2miTkkLS3oNuwSAtGhcdS0XLwAt3v2gbBefikDOuk3OI/s400/DSC_7744.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505029650387550530" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkvFWbxFuf6W7t5qzOXAbtVGXXhHnRHxiSwhRa8dQuPiMljYUQXMMh0gyEFqQwOpR6SqtS4PCVWuJO8my65OzyWFdQ-BZI7ldqddbKd6NZ2V9j5VAM71FKf9_hFZmTJ34as6fuNMksi_CT/s1600/DSC_7740.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkvFWbxFuf6W7t5qzOXAbtVGXXhHnRHxiSwhRa8dQuPiMljYUQXMMh0gyEFqQwOpR6SqtS4PCVWuJO8my65OzyWFdQ-BZI7ldqddbKd6NZ2V9j5VAM71FKf9_hFZmTJ34as6fuNMksi_CT/s400/DSC_7740.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505029638730216690" /></a>Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-63426695020941887732010-08-13T15:23:00.000-07:002010-08-13T15:41:42.354-07:00BOAZ CELEBRATE THE BIG 4 EARLY!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsNHO3G9dhXt-jQErsVvUhu7bonxEZW2ug6r7k-n-1oc5jSzTAHO38PF7XNpIn5CkDJfh5rTDRDcV39xDu37CbkgPdJPcgrN0VXig0vtE8lewnIqZ1OVK4gAgsHavbBFikJMWYC-B68k1v/s1600/DSC_7665.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsNHO3G9dhXt-jQErsVvUhu7bonxEZW2ug6r7k-n-1oc5jSzTAHO38PF7XNpIn5CkDJfh5rTDRDcV39xDu37CbkgPdJPcgrN0VXig0vtE8lewnIqZ1OVK4gAgsHavbBFikJMWYC-B68k1v/s400/DSC_7665.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505028304241259090" /></a><br />My kid's summer school program got out a couple of weeks before his actually birthday so his teachers and classmates sent him (and his teddy bear Joe) off in style--with his super cool birthday crown!Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-46164984184881902432010-08-05T13:36:00.000-07:002010-08-05T13:39:13.395-07:00In Honor of Prop 8 being overturned...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2YaQxgwZ98tFqDNk9kcYLNww3yE6Iwyh3qXJp_RsuSCN6lZvAuU6xmuRKjabJlxZNpIsJcVAMau4tdrCFboEDWXCURWq0mgcbBrxPdfMb9YC_uFkKExhq6i5LWPaU6wjxFCDglb4Fg6G9/s1600/DSC_7587.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2YaQxgwZ98tFqDNk9kcYLNww3yE6Iwyh3qXJp_RsuSCN6lZvAuU6xmuRKjabJlxZNpIsJcVAMau4tdrCFboEDWXCURWq0mgcbBrxPdfMb9YC_uFkKExhq6i5LWPaU6wjxFCDglb4Fg6G9/s400/DSC_7587.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502028111938578658" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWBaGsy5xZM2F0wh9TyAuuuhP0MmSKNGAS6gn0Ys44WEEFMJowqPKK_yOfP7JnQV_E6NFrSbSBi2Ssqg-bXM8PHRndC5mxenDBZ2L6ROO0oYLYjlxoGekO1Pz4UqzMX3JUbK9a0Koe7dJ1/s1600/DSC_7583.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWBaGsy5xZM2F0wh9TyAuuuhP0MmSKNGAS6gn0Ys44WEEFMJowqPKK_yOfP7JnQV_E6NFrSbSBi2Ssqg-bXM8PHRndC5mxenDBZ2L6ROO0oYLYjlxoGekO1Pz4UqzMX3JUbK9a0Koe7dJ1/s400/DSC_7583.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502028104081120386" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyDZcg8WGVmerpl455IUYApfqhXPSNTmGs1NfGOaJJIJBjgBMA7fS5-ZAp6oGNl-XLNrGEaYDOXg7BX1fsCqOVZkSvYL91zQQiXtdpFl1U0XUY7SvjhQjHoWQlq7JVeA-hobh9Ql3c5z-D/s1600/DSC_7584.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyDZcg8WGVmerpl455IUYApfqhXPSNTmGs1NfGOaJJIJBjgBMA7fS5-ZAp6oGNl-XLNrGEaYDOXg7BX1fsCqOVZkSvYL91zQQiXtdpFl1U0XUY7SvjhQjHoWQlq7JVeA-hobh9Ql3c5z-D/s400/DSC_7584.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502028094615783074" /></a><br />...my dog Coco (aka "Cookie") are celebrating by getting hitched. Doesn't she look gorgeous?!Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-70428341516432764872010-08-03T14:01:00.000-07:002010-08-03T14:04:27.136-07:00Me, Gwen and Gavin<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKOYHAjM8RJq856ImPRkOj45MMfknhI7I23u77iy_EYYGrgxpfiM6L0WAPaewrvv9HWboNFSLaR7bIbghcCrmplzvceI6Z8KNJoVTvbYfpTkIrglhKPPOGtSdySWtKvc6pIiWUaY5IkM_u/s1600/gweninrepose.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKOYHAjM8RJq856ImPRkOj45MMfknhI7I23u77iy_EYYGrgxpfiM6L0WAPaewrvv9HWboNFSLaR7bIbghcCrmplzvceI6Z8KNJoVTvbYfpTkIrglhKPPOGtSdySWtKvc6pIiWUaY5IkM_u/s400/gweninrepose.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501292376668060786" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiROuQYDFwHdEBHCAvFZ-KPw0u4DodUYftDSROz1iHqXiFKEhVGbaIoj3lOKBWOUprpAQzNRv_2WoI6ZVfb04hpVqUwJhH6cWeRsJwXyIaabeNowTWCkVxKYrTqVdOuvJ4dsWRe1C5uJCj2/s1600/gwengavin.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiROuQYDFwHdEBHCAvFZ-KPw0u4DodUYftDSROz1iHqXiFKEhVGbaIoj3lOKBWOUprpAQzNRv_2WoI6ZVfb04hpVqUwJhH6cWeRsJwXyIaabeNowTWCkVxKYrTqVdOuvJ4dsWRe1C5uJCj2/s400/gwengavin.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501292370510132994" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEtqZEChmVBpjgEVPnW9tfstuNp_evD7o6C61CCXpqEkjx9qljsj9wR49XVJfPcvSuLmjLQla41PjuOP3fOUOW2skluiivrHOADfQ4gvPAaonUSTlxaix2kOqxJjSuaSvImh9PnQ0Y__mV/s1600/gwen.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEtqZEChmVBpjgEVPnW9tfstuNp_evD7o6C61CCXpqEkjx9qljsj9wR49XVJfPcvSuLmjLQla41PjuOP3fOUOW2skluiivrHOADfQ4gvPAaonUSTlxaix2kOqxJjSuaSvImh9PnQ0Y__mV/s400/gwen.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501292365822564722" /></a><br />I was sitting on a bench beside Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale at the Malibu Country Mart, watching our kids scamper around in the sand and zip down the slides, and thinking about just how much we all have in common, sitting there with nothing to do on a Monday, our careers going nowhere on that particular day, likely awaiting calls from our agents. We are so, so much alike. <br /><br />And on the one day I don't have my camera...<br /><br />Well, in any case, here are a few bad pap snaps. My favorite is the one where they have the same ponytail, same pose...Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-2276334670257726142010-07-30T16:04:00.000-07:002010-07-30T16:06:50.003-07:00PRACTICING FOR THE '12 OLYMPICS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFYS7bC1VpqAwa0iBgffkbbFPkWjWdVv0e7HHJ0DV3WA3j2h4osaJtPfBaAoQJ_8tUJTC9V-7IHWsO7IQXGm78XS-DYoHL0x06c7XjTXrCNye0TUA1MF7YimfzyYPdmQqbg3nb9-OnphBy/s1600/DSC_7470.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFYS7bC1VpqAwa0iBgffkbbFPkWjWdVv0e7HHJ0DV3WA3j2h4osaJtPfBaAoQJ_8tUJTC9V-7IHWsO7IQXGm78XS-DYoHL0x06c7XjTXrCNye0TUA1MF7YimfzyYPdmQqbg3nb9-OnphBy/s400/DSC_7470.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499839388578371602" /></a>Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132769744735078389.post-68262996910640410262010-07-27T10:50:00.000-07:002010-07-27T10:53:40.250-07:00FLOWER CHILD<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8xV76htYAGS_-LRA9HL289ETaBGXU4S8yVmzuZ07cymnt-olGYfe9negGl-DKFs7sHE6fB9p6JiMTMzBoxYnw3TxSj0Lu-NVVpB15swsykmg9dggahP-bN-UhHgMuZ41F0RyGq11_5kCf/s1600/DSC_7103.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8xV76htYAGS_-LRA9HL289ETaBGXU4S8yVmzuZ07cymnt-olGYfe9negGl-DKFs7sHE6fB9p6JiMTMzBoxYnw3TxSj0Lu-NVVpB15swsykmg9dggahP-bN-UhHgMuZ41F0RyGq11_5kCf/s400/DSC_7103.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498645393090090882" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"></span><br /><br />I swear, I'm going to do some actual writing-related blogging (soon)...Malinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12882575694524432458noreply@blogger.com0