I Citizen Magazine

Wedding Central- the dress

Are a selection of wonderful, handmade wedding dresses for your big day from designers on Etsy. Just because you'll remember this dress all your life doesn't mean you should be paying it off after your wedding. I Citizen has put together a helpful list of informal dresses and formal gowns for your big day. Take a look at some suits for the groom on I Citizen's men's wear suggestions.

The Adventures of little Keekee

The Sweds are helping create a new word, Hen, as a gender netural term for boys and girls. In today's I Citizen short story by R.M. Kelly we have a short children's tale about Keekee.

Helping Rosacea

Getting rosacea under control can be a very up-hill battle of will verses nature. Salt Compress.....Dampen a clean, soapless washcloth with warm water. Add two teaspoons

Wedding Central: handmade

It's getting to be wedding season and I Citizen Mag has put together some unique, handmade items for your wedding. Don't drive yourself mad about getting every little piece right, enjoy the fun of a wedding and remember how nice it is to have lovely, handmade items in your wedding that don't cost a foot and a groom.

The Vintage in Eugene OR

The Vintage makes a really tasty veggie burger with a good amount of avocado and some great, crispy fries. Sit upstarts and enjoy the neighborhood view in this little house turned into a yummy restaurant.

Piazza Gavi in Tucson

Dine at Piazza Gavi with an empty stomach because the portions are more than generous with many vegetarian and even a few vegan options. If you get a salad order the Italian vinaigrette, it’s nicely light and spicy. The baked mostaccioli...

Outdoor Goodies for Warm Weather

Picnic tables are great for gathering your family together for an outdoor weekend lunch or weekday dinner. You can add pillows for more comfort and they're easy to rise off with the hose if the little ones (and spouses) get a little messy with the food.

Spring Plantings

Organic gardening is good for the environment, your children's health and your dinner plate. By buying organic plants and seeds we're supporting healthy agriculture and keeping our gardens free of chemicals.

Poem: How to Swear

It ain’t the secrets of the heart
How much easier it would be
It ain’t the secret of the force, stand behind me and I’ll cover you
Oh I swear you better listen woman
You taken me for a ride and I don’t need no fast paced living anymore
Getting older
Gotten wiser been told

Streaming Film Review: The Lightkeepers

The Lightkeepers is a sweet period film set in the summer of 1912 in Cape Cod. The director clearly loves his locations as he films them beautifully. This movie is worth a stream just for the excellent footage of the sea rolling

Ayami Tyndall's Tech Line- Android Solutions

I still remember the early days of the Internet, when monitors were thicker than a mattress, mice still had balls, and RSS was the coolest new thing on the block. But now, with laser mice and flex-screens, RSS is a standard part of any website, and for good reason. A feed is much easier to track than a website, but even the feeds

The I Citizen Spring into
Fashion for Men

Below are our Spring 2012 recommendations for men's clothes, add a little something or a big piece for spring. The descriptions are from the clothing makers, many of which are hand made pieces.

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Let the Sunshine In Part 3

Mind games are a powerful weapon in the assault on your being. I knew of one woman who had suggested to her husband that they keep their backyard doors locked for security. The husband threw a fit and then two weeks later he started yelling at his wife. Telling her she had forgotten to lock the door. Some of these stories may seem absurd, why would a woman stay with these people? Understanding

I Citizen Mag's Spring
Fashion for the Ladies

Are you looking for the perfect top to carry you from Spring to Summer? A great date dress that you can keep wearing this time next year? Well, aren't you lucky to be reading this magazine, we just happen to have lots of choices for every budget.

E-Book Review: Timeless

Timeless is the final book in The Parasol Protectorate series. This book ends the series well, leaving the reader wanting at least one more novel. Written with the humor and intrigue that made the The Parasol Protectorate books so great

Kansas City Photo Pictorial

KC has some really spectacular neighborhoods. With the classic long rolling lawns, tree lined streets and family friendly communities.

Photos by R.M. Kelly

Poem: People We Loved

hey
over in the darkness
hey
hey
oh you know when it's time
to get moving on

The House's Secret Part 1

From R.M. Kelly's E-Book The House's Secret Coming Summer 2012.
The morning was wet and grey. Lucy loved rainy mornings but this morning she had woken with a knot deep

Photography as Painting

Fine Art Photography is about more than the image, it's about transforming the picture into a feeling.

Streaming Film Review: The Lightkeepers

Vegetarian Friendly Restaurants in Minnesota

Vegetarian Friendly Restaurants in Minnesota

Poem: Well I Never

Listen to that sound
Like rain in the desert
Sun in the freezing chill
How much love does it take to hold the lamp in the night
Oh sweetness of breath
Strawberries and whisky

Poem: hey you over there

This is a poem about child sexual abuse, which has been in the news recently. It is a topic that must be talked about to eradicate. -RM Kelly

hey boy
hey you over there
where I'm not quite sure

Let the Sunshine In Part 2

Recognizing that abuse is taking place. It can be hard even for the abused to fully come to terms with being in an abusive relationship.

Streaming Film Review of Wild Target

Wild Target is (wait for it) wildly funny. Bill Nighy plays a middle aged hit man with less than stellar social skills who realizes he cannot kill his target, a slightly wild, kleptomaniac with eyes on the black-market for artwork.

Poem: before we start

Found hope in a lovely place

Green grass beneath hooded trees

The sea is far away but the breeze carries gulls and the past

Body image

Where did that lump come from? God, so don’t be ungrateful for the beauty and strength that he endowed you with.

Male or female take a moment to look in a full-length mirror while naked, no socks, and tell your reflection how grateful you are to be alive and in this body, it is the only one of its kind and awesome beyond understanding.

Interview with I Citizen's RM Kelly

I Citizen's own RM Kelly.

Poem: China Doll

China doll

Goddamn china doll

Always laughing in the corner

Dark alleys make good play fellows

Bad fellows make dark rules

China doll you always won

Mt. Lemmon in
Southern AZ

Just an hour's drive from the Tucson Airport is Mt. Lemmon, with cool weather during the hot summers and brisk falls for October Fest.

Valentine's Day I Citizen Cards

Here are some custom Valentine's Day cards, which you can download and print out or email to those you love.

Happy Heart Day from ICitizenMag

Poem: As I have loved

As I have loved you before
As I love you now
As I am sure I will love you again
When the time comes
They may part us for now
But in a moment I will watch over you

Mind healing time

Close your eyes and imagine a green field with nothing but blue sky. Watch the blue sky turn slowly to the deep purple of sunset. As dusk falls you hear your favorite sound, softly falling over the green grass. Now open your eyes and take a deep breath. That is your beginning point; a place to start from

Helping PCOS Naturally

After reading about the severity of PCOS I went hunting for as many options for help as possible. When the high levels of testosterone women can develop from PCOS are not able to be helped

Fair Films Interview: Tucson Actors

Interview with Tucson based actors on how they got into acting later in life.

The Best Breads in Tucson AZ

The best places for bread in Tucson

From epis to ryes and all the carb goodness in between TravFan suggests the very best breads in Tucson, Arizona.

New Cartoon

New comic strip for I Citizen

Getting Published in Indie E-Publishing

More and more people with simply a passion for writing believe they should get published. Do you firmly believe you'll be the next great novelist? Yes, well we all have goals now don't we. However, as vanity publishing and blogging have begun to dilute literature’s impact and respect it is very important to take a hard look at your writing and decide if it is going to find an audience. I suggest having several impartial people review anything you write before you submit it to an outside source.
Once you have firmly considered your work’s integrity (after all that romancing werewolf had better be believable) and appeal finding a publisher or agent can still be very, very tricky; much like that summer I got stuck to some fly tape on the deck.

A Centered Holiday of Joyfulness

Find your center. Not a place or person or a thing. Your center is the space within that no one can truly know except you. It is the unguarded being with which we all come into world; our true selves, without gilt or fear or judgment.

Holiday Gift Guide

We've put togther a collection of great gift ides to help make your holiday season a little less insane. From bgi gifts to stocking stuffers to gifts to rest under the Chanukkah Bush you're set for all your gift giving this season.

Shorter Than The Wick

I Citizen Magazine's very own R.M. Kelly has a new e-book of short stories out for the holiday season. Shorter Than The Wick is a collection of short tales, which include ghost stories, tall-tales and political heartbreak.

Short Story: Half a Life

Lifelong friends Arthur and Peter walked down the chilly autumn street. Neither one noticed the last bits of gold and rust stained leafs falling from their home on long branches to the dirty pavement below. Arthur stopped suddenly......

Monet's Garden

Photos by RM Kelly in France of Monet's famous garden in the summer sunshine...

Poem: Good and True

Questions of your goodness
Trueness in this time
And maybe you believe everything you say
Mayhem brings their lies
Cannot be taken back

Tech Line

Android Solutions: Chart Your Flow...Using a style of flow chart also known as a mind map, Thinking Space is all about efficiency. Every chart starts with a central hub, and then from this you add nodes. It's all very easy, done with the click of a button on the sidebar or with the gesture pad.

Book Review: Pleasure of a Dark Prince

For chilly late winter nights this is a fun candy-for-the-mind kind of romance novel. Plus who doesn't want a werewolf to look after them? Well, maybe a mouse made...

Entertainment Issue

Streaming Film Review Labyrinth

Labyrinth is one of my favorite films and I was so excited to find it was available as a streaming video from Netflix. This is a family friendly movie with the eternally awesome David Bowie....

Streaming film review What Dreams May Come

What Dreams May Come is a magical film about the afterlife and the unyielding power of love in all its forms. Cuba Gooding Jr. does a wonderful job as the mysterious guide for Robin Williams'...

Book Review; I Remember Nothing

I Remember Nothing by the filmamker Nora Ephron is a whitty easy read for an evening bath time with a deep chuckle. Nora's book has great short stories on her life and observations

Happy Meal

Happy Meal is a new web show about the comedic dangers of participating in reality TV cooking shows. An ex coke head, an overworked food critic and a dish washer come together to film the first episode of their reality show on cooking. Nothing seems able to go right and no one will ever get along after their first day on set.

Happy Meal Webisode 1