Year: 2018
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First World Problems
My youngest nephew was a child when this phrase first became popular. He was quick to realize that much of what we complained about in our daily lives fit into this category. He also used to say, ‘I eat low on the food chain’, to explain why he wouldn’t consume most animal proteins. He was,…
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Is your ladder leaning on the right wall?
Have you seen the Gary Vee video, ‘The Human Pursuit of Happiness’? Go ahead, click on the link, invest 6.24 minutes. The root of his message is important, an idea which is dear to my heart as well. It’s almost impossible when you don’t have the things that you want to understand that the chase…
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Time is a precious resource, with a finite supply
It is the curse of aging when we finally realize time is in short supply and needs to be lived according to our fullest potential. If we are lucky, we realize how precious the resource of time is and how quickly the supply dwindles down to nothing. As a youngster time seemed to stretch out…
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One connection at a time
I woke to an email from someone I don’t know. Yes, I get those all the time too! A person who claims to be my friend and needs money for one emergency or another. Or they want to send me money. The spelling, punctuation and general use of English is so poor that they are…
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Why are you happy when I’m so sad?
It is a trick of the brain when 2 people can be experiencing the same circumstances and one person enjoys themselves while the other does not. Or the same people can participate in a familiar activity and on one occasion they both have a positive experience and the next time they fail to find joy.…
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Of course, the Ancient Greeks had 6 words for love
In the English language, there is one word with a dozen different definitions. ‘Love’ is a word which means everything from a warm attachment to attraction based on sexual desire and even a score in tennis. If you scan through the ways that English speakers use the word love, no wonder it has so much…
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17 years on
I will always remember this day because I was nursing my infant son when it happened. I was not watching TV at that moment, I think my husband came into the living room and turned it on. The emergency news had taken over every channel, it didn’t matter which one we picked. Click after click…
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False Evidence Appearing Real
F = False E = Evidence A = Appearing R = Real It is a trick of the modern world for our brains to register so much fear. Reports often cite the problem to be a lack of adaptation in our bodies. Chemicals are released according to ancient patterns and we respond to stimuli without…
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Who doesn’t love school supplies!
Yeah, that is not a question, really. Now that I am finally at an age where I don’t care if people think I am dorky, I will openly admit to loving school supplies. I don’t care so much for gym strip or even the new clothes, it was always about the stationary. Pens, pencils, scribblers,…
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How did it get so late so soon?
How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flown. How did it get so late so soon? -Dr. Seuss Evidently, Dr. Seuss wrote this poem one year before his death. Which leads to the assumption that he was…