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Mindfulness
Mental Health In the mental health field, most often mindfulness is described as an integrative, mind-body based approach that helps people to manage their thoughts and feelings and mental health. It is becoming widely used in a range of contexts. It is recommended as a preventative practice for people with recurrent depression. It is most…
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Soap
Bar soap is a great invention. It changed how we wash, when we wash and what we wash. But it’s also a nuisance in a way. What do you do with that little thin sliver of soap when it is mostly all used? Do you throw it away? Kind of wasteful really. Do you try…
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Not Letting Go
There is a very good chance that by a year from now, we will be settled (mostly) in a new home in a new state. We have been cleaning out the basement with an eye toward moving. We ask ourselves these questions frequently: Do I like it enough to move it 875 miles? Do we…
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Garage Sales
Twice a year, the small community where we live hosts a community-wide garage sale. It’s advertised in all the local papers and draws people from miles and miles away. It’s a big deal. The second one is always on the first Friday and Saturday in October. The first one was cancelled this year due to…
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The Many Misadventures of Tall Guy and Short Gal: an Update
I’m very close to finishing my first proofread/edit of the manuscript. And yes, I know that you should not try to do both of those things at the same time. Doesn’t stop me trying. This time around, I have decided to order a proof copy (maybe two if they will let me get more than…
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Onions
Cutting onions can be a bother. Sulfur compounds are released when you slice through them. They mix with the tears in your eyes to form an acid. More or less. The acid irritates your eyes even more. You close your eyes. You blink a lot. It only seems to make it worse. The more tears…
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Weird Words, Part 13
Wackadoodle Just the other day I had this clue in a crossword puzzle: “not completely whack-a-doodle.” The answer they wanted was “sane.” Until that moment, I’d never heard that word before. I know, you are probably thinking I’ve led a sheltered life. In some ways, I probably have. I checked out the definition online and…
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Productivity
Life can sometimes seem to get in the way of living. If productivity is the measure by which you judge the worth of your day’s endeavors, then you are setting yourself up for failure. Because the simple truth is … Sometimes you just can’t.
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The Many Misadventures of Tall Guy and Short Gal
It’s done. Well as done as it can be at this point. What I mean is, it’s ready for my first readers to read it. I hope. It ended up longer than I thought it might. So I think it just barely qualifies to be a novel. I’m going with that. Anyway, I’m pretty excited.…
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Peaches
There’s a point in the life of a free-stone peach where it is just ripe enough that the skin will pull off easily in one piece. You quarter the peach first and pull out the pit. You grab an end of the skin between your thumb and your paring knife. You gently and smoothly pull…
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