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  • Blog—Maniacal Musings—Becky Lyn Rickman, Managing Editor
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  • Dealing with miscarriage
  • My Story
  • Circles
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Being Single
  • 5 Stages of divorce recovery
  • The Circus is in Town
  • (You're covered with) The Fingerprints of God
  • Thunder Roared and Love Soared
  • A Period Piece
  • A sneak preview of the Gertie sequel!
  • Six Steps to Cultivate your Femininity in the Business World
  • Chore Zoning or Don't try this at home!
  • The 50 with Meredith Morse—Opera Singer
  • The 50 with Jessica VanVactor
  • Memorizing Joy
  • AT LAST! My interview with Shan White, Life Coach for women in transition
  • Questions and statements we don't care if we never, ever get asked or told again (am I right, girls?)
  • The Date
  • Moonshadow's Spirit
  • Broken Writer + Hypnotherapy = Amazing Trips
  • The "R" Word
  • The 50 with Carol Shepherd Rickman
  • Triumph During Transitions
  • A Kentucky Afternoon
  • Mothers
  • 10 things chemo taught me
  • What if . . .
  • Forgiveness—A poem
  • Mantegories (n. from the Latin; man+categories)
  • Insomnia 101
  • Blooming Bud Interview: Sierra
  • Masterful Mindsets
  • It's in the bag!
  • Important lessons for children: Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can
  • Nursery rhymes, and times, and slimes, and grimes, and crimes
  • Things I learned as a single mom
  • Sadie's Soapbox: Dating
  • The Dress
  • 8 Things That Have Surprised Me About Having a Large Family
  • The gift of longing
  • The Semicolon Project
  • Most embarrassing moments—culinary edition
  • MilitaReality—a brat's perspective
  • About those elusive wisps of thought
  • Being there
  • The Giving Mom
  • How I still haven't learned to keep my smart mouth shut!
  • If you give a mom a cookie . . .
  • Cacti and Geraniums
  • The Three Gardeners
  • Beauty is as beauty does
  • Words for Sabra
  • Arm scratching in Baltimore
  • Pornography didn't kill our love and friendship . . . I did . . . and how we got it back
  • Hardening off our little bloomers
  • The Wonderful, Magical Women of Blooming Television
  • Shake it like a Polaroid picture!
  • 25 Date Nights (that aren't dinner and a movie)
  • Hills Like White Elephants
  • Maryland Beaten Biscuits
  • The night we thought the house was exploding
  • A mysterious case of goosebumps or "What is that on the wall?"
  • Militareality—Real stories of military wives
  • Finding my metal in wood
  • Another blooming bud interview
  • Chariot of Fire
  • Secret gifts of love
  • The best prank I ever pulled was . . .
  • Connie
  • Dating and other hazards
  • Favorite childhood memories
  • When God speaks . . .
  • Zanie gets into another sticky situation
  • No-see-ums: A little useful information
  • I love my kids, but . . .
  • Meg's poem
  • Another blooming bud interview
  • Some of my favorite herbal recipes are . . .
  • I love my cat, but . . .
  • I love all creatures, but . . .
  • The thing all girls and women must see and know . . .
  • The Great Chicken Debacle
  • The Powerful Influence of Brothers
  • How I feel about blooming is . . .
  • Sometimes grandma is up—other times she is simply upside-down
  • Anyone out there as anxious as I am?
  • Some of my funniest childhood memories are . . .
  • You might be addicted to Harry Potter if . . .
  • This month's survey:
  • Another Blooming Bud interview
  • The most valuable life lesson I've learned is . . .
  • The greatest blessing to come out of the most painful thing I ever experienced was . . .
  • The most powerful influence on my life is . . .
  • The thing that could have broken our family, but didn't was . . .
  • The funniest thing that ever happened to me was . . .
  • The time my dad really surprised me was when . . .
  • NEW FEATURE: Interviews with Blooming Buds
  • ANOTHER NEW FEATURE: A survey
  • The most valuable life lesson I've ever learned is . . .
  • My most embarrassing moment was when . . .
  • What really puzzles me is . . .
  • One of the most fun days I ever had was . . .
  • The most scared I've ever been was when . . .
  • The people who have been the biggest influence on me are . . .
  • I like to relax by . . .
  • The best way to do . . .
  • My most embarrassing moment was when . . .
  • The most fun I ever had was when . . .
  • When I grow up, I want to be . . .
  • What really puzzles me is . . .
  • The most amazing bargain I ever found was . . .
  • Those annoying things kids do and what they mean
  • My shameless self-promotion
  • The thing about getting older is . . .

the blooming bud interview

In our ongoing feature, spotlighting little Blooming Buds and their views on the world, we are speaking this week with Miranda, 16.

BB:  If you could talk to flowers what you say to them?

G:  I would probably just ask them what it feels like to be a flower and what kind of challenges face them. Do they feel left out because they can't move. 

BB:  If your mother was a teenager just your age, what would you want to do with her?

G:  Definitely go bike riding.

BB:  What is the most important thing your older brothers and sisters have taught you?

G:  Probably that our problems can and need to be solved. Don't run away from them. 

BB:  How would you want to change the world?

G:  Probably by changing some of the laws—pretty much making only one law. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

BB:  What qualities do you want your future husband to possess?

G:  Patience, not super patient; loyal; strong in faith; artistic in some kind of way—musically, painting, acting, something like that; hard working and responsible.

BB:  What do you want to be when you grow up?

G:  I definitely want to go to college and going into college I have many choices. I want to either do art, biology (working with big cats, wolves, hyenas or draft horses, or doing music.

BB:  If you could give new high-schoolers a piece of advice, what would it be? That you wish you had known when you started?

G:   Join the Mormon church! No, seriously, probably that what other people think of you isn't the most important thing; that what you think of yourself is the most important thing. 

BB: What is your favorite color?

G:  Red (Stated emphatically and without hesitation!)

BB:  If you could have any pet in the world, what would you have?

G:  Does it have to be real? (NO.) I have 4 dream pets: tiger, wolf, shire draft horse, red dragon. 

BB: What would you name them?

G: Tiger would be Tora because in Japanese that means tiger. The wolf would probably Lupen. The draft horse would be Owen, but I have a bunch of names for them. The red dragon would be Gragorix. That's a name my dad and I came up with for a book I'm writing. 

BB:  What is the best thing about being a 16-year old girl?

G:  Probably being a leader by nature; and being able to go on group dates. I'm the one that goes out and plans all the group dates for youth groups at church and gets people who are so shy to come out and do fun stuff with others. 

BB:  What is the worst thing?

G:  Probably it's being in high school. The age range that is in high school. I'm probably more mature than most girls at my school and know that having a boyfriend is not the best idea that young.




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