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Opening Bags & Other Conundrums of Life
How do you invent something you don’t know how to use? This question came up last week while the hubs and I were at the grocery store. A disclaimer here. I don’t KNOW that men invented those plastic bags. And my “sample” for this research project was small enough to be considered of the anecdotal…
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6 Ways to Die “Wrong”
So last month I put out a call for help on how to die “right,” i.e. how to arrange our affairs gracefully and in such a way as to cause the least pain and distress for our offspring. And I got no comments. None. Nada. Zip. Not even from our offspring. (Interesting that.) This leads…
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Advice: The Good, the Bad, the Massively Wrong
If you watch Big Bang Theory, then you know that Sheldon made some career changes last season when he felt stalled in his research. In that odd way information has of synching, I also saw a Facebook meme about bad advice possibly from Anne Rice (this was a Facebook meme) and a blog post from…
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Emergency!
Do you ever find yourself wondering if you’d like an old TV favorite as much as you used to? With so many old shows and movies appearing on Netflix, etc, it’s easy to check them out. (Though The Six Million Dollar Man has yet to show up on any of the streaming services I use.)…
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Resolving Early
I had this story idea once about a character who was the shot-out-of-the-cannon person in the circus. The story died because I didn’t know much about working for a circus or being shot out of cannon. What does this have to do with resolutions? Trust me, I’m going to make this work. Though I don’t…
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Getting Out of Our Own Pain the Dr. #Sarno Way
A couple of months ago my morning started the way most of my mornings do. I made my sleepy way to the refrigerator for a cold Diet Dr. Pepper, before heading to my office to open my email. About halfway there, the soles of my feet started to burn. Before I reached my office, pain…
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Let it Soar! Let it Soar! Let it Soar!
Many of you know that my hopes for Monday are usually centered around a vague hope that I don’t get hosed, but I loved this photo. It lifted me without me having to leave the house (a good thing for a hermit). In the morning, when sentience begins its slow return to my brain,…
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Feeling Under the Gun? Time to Dodge?
Have you felt under the gun lately? Like you’re taking hits from all directions? It’s so easy to feel lost in the smoke and flying pellets, or get so focused in one direction that you lose your sense of perspective. Believe me, I know all about losing my sense of perspective. So far 2014 has…
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Looking Down the Barrel & Finding Hope
There are days when getting out of bed is an act of courage. Now when I think about what I could be facing—wars, pestilence, Mother Nature—waking with a cold is not a huge tragedy. It sucks, of course, but no, not a tragedy. One of our kids’ favorite books was Did I Ever Tell You…
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The Angel of Death (i.e. Monday)
So it’s Monday again. Funny how it happens again and again, despite its lack of popularity. If I were Monday, I’d be so embarrassed, I’d do something, like move or move. Or re-brand myself as a cool, happy day. Not the end of all joy as we know it. It’s not like I go to…