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A Cup of Kindness
Today is my mother’s birthday. She is 79. She is one of the most positive, enthusiastic, intelligent, and wise women I have ever known. She continues to inspire me. A week ago, she moved from her...
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Relationships: Why U R Doin’ It Wrong
Steve brought me a book we’d sold. “There are a few light pencil marks in the quiz section. Could you please erase them before we ship this out?” I glanced at the cover. Getting To “I Do”: The Secret...
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Model Behavior
I don’t have a television, so I don’t see a lot of commercials. Still, I find NBA games on the internet and catch a few ads in the process. There’s one for a fried chicken franchise that particularly...
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Special Sauce
“You are my friend; you are special. You are my friend; you’re special to me. There’s no one else who is like you; like you, my friend, I like you.” Fred Rogers Once in a lunar cycle, I am visited by...
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Media and Mania
My laptop perches on my warmly-wrapped lap. Sunshine covers the foot of the bed. Outside my window, sparrows twitter in the snow-dusted branches. Steve and I tap our separate keyboards, sending muffled...
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My Personal Titanic
From manic to panic to sinking, slowly, letting go, breathing with the flow, the end of woe, the bliss of weightlessness, the natural company of fish. It’s been kind of a crazy week inside my head....
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Zigzag
“The quickest way between two points might be a straight line, but it’s rarely the most interesting one. ” So begins the teasing prompt for this week’s photo challenge. I’m a pretty straightforward...
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Inside My Head: Fear
I noticed it right away. My heart beat faster and my thoughts proliferated out of control. Every twinge of muscle, of intestine, of nervous skin was magnified. I wanted to run, to turn back the...
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80 Years in Eight Days — Day Number Four: 10 Parenting Principles
If you’re just visiting this blog for the first time, you’ve stepped into the fourth day of my birthday project for my mom, who is turning 80 years old on New Year’s Eve. Today’s list of 10 things is...
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Theater Lessons
This article appears in The Be Zine. To see the entire issue on theater, click HERE. What has Theater taught me? Ego indulgence and humility. Confidence and neurosis. Teamwork and competition. Empathy...
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