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Honor of a lifetime!  A feature in  ZOOEY magazine  by who? By yours truly. But, if anyone considers what I've done in the superhero status because of the food allergy activism I've done, or the work I've gone to from having a child with a peanut allergy, has no idea how easy I've had things compared to so many other parents of much more allergic kids.  I've had it easy. The feature is about my journey raising a child with a severe peanut allergy.  And it's just a taste of what my book is about.  I have been working on a book about everything I've learned in my seven years of founding and administrating a very active, fast-growing support  group of nearly 6,000 thousand people called  Parents Of Kids With A Severe Peanut Allergy .  A group of parents who find themselves in the very same boat of being new parents at the same time they also find themselves unexpectedly saddled with the additional burden that their beloved child can die from something neede

Perfect opening monologue. I've never forgotten this young actress's voice and the way her rough, honest, simple delivery sets up the rest of the film so powerfully.  It's rare you can use a vocal quality to set a naturalistic tone for an entire film like Malick does with this one.

stay tuned for video after opening credits   on writing  Not California -- 'It came together from watching a lot of  The O.C.  and  Laguna Beach ,' Messe says with a laugh. 'My wife is a fan of those shows, and I would watch them with her. Every time I would watch those shows, I felt like after the show was over, I would feel a little less satisfied with my life. I would feel my world was more black and white, and I would feel poor and fat. I wanted to reject that,' he continues. 'I feel we're incredibly lucky both as a band and as people, and yet we're still able to fall prey to the way the media romanticizes certain wealth and privilege. For me, it had a way of making me feel bad about my life. The line 'And I'm the one who wants to be with you tonight...,' I'm talking about my wife and my life. That soft-focused consumerism s