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An Unexpected Benefit
10/19/2015 Early last week, into my email inbox dropped a notice that I had received two tickets to be in the studio audience of the Season 10 Blind Auditions for NBC’s “The Voice.” It had happened once before in the throes of moving and post-divorce emotional apocalypse, and I simply could not manage all that…
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My Netflix Recommendations
I was just watching (yet another) How I Met Your Mother, and I began scrolling through my “My List” choices on there. Then I decided I would impose my recommendations on you. It’s crappy weather on spring break – maybe you would appreciate some recommendations from a reliable source. And don’t say “But I don’t have…
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#CallMeIAmQualified
Sometimes, the most difficult part of writing is creating the title. So I skipped it. That’s how I roll. Home from school today due to bizarre sleet and snowfall overnight. We were cautioned to expect it, but I never get my hopes up. It’s a full moon, so not being at my particular job today…
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Gratitude, Pt. Deux
16. Thankful for the tenacity to plow my way through respiratory unrest without defaulting to antibiotics or steroids. Pregnancy taught me that I could 4 years ago! Neti Pot Rules! 17. Thankful for having learned the life skill of moderation somewhere along the way. And the ability to think of others before myself when I consider…
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Gratitude
So, I’m jealous of all the people on Facebook who have been “together” enough to post daily blurbs in November about what they are thankful for in their lives. Some of the posts have been very insightful – including a friend who is thankful for technology because she is able to receive loving text messages…
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ADD & Rage Addiction
Recently, a book called Shadow Syndromes by Dr. John Ratey, M.D. and Catherine Johnson, Ph.D., was recommended to me, and I started reading it last week. It is FASCINATING. I’m not sure how it’s stayed under my radar for so long — likely because I was up to my eyeballs in assigned reading for graduate school and work…
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O, Night Divine
12/31/2011 The silence surrounding me right now is quite comforting. There is the occasional fireworks moment in the distance, but my $2.99 earbuds are successfully masking even that. I am the only person still awake in my home with one hour left in this year. I began the third and final panel in the (for…
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A New Horizon
09/01/2022 I remarried in November of 2020, and I took a few months to move out of the house I was leasing at that time and into my husband’s home (and a storage facility). I feel like I have been in varying states of disarray since that time, and we have all been affected by…
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Freedom
So, it’s Independence Day, and I have been thinking about the word “freedom” and its implications. Of course, if there is freedom, then there must have been bondage. Not necessarily the physical kind, where there were literal chains or incarceration. We can experience bondage in many other forms; bondage might be in the form of…
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Early Morning
So, I went to bed relatively early last night, knowing that we were going to leave at 6:00 a.m. today to go to Baylor so that Chris could have a small basal cell carcinoma excised from his ear. I set two (2) alarms, and I don’t know if I heard neither of them or if…
