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A Fresh Start x2
January can feel bittersweet. It’s hard to say goodbye to the rich Christmas decorations, delicious indulgences we gave ourselves permission to enjoy, and the string of visitors that added even more liveliness to our homes. On the flip side is the clean 2020 calendar, decluttered house and blank pages of…
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Why We Struggle to Respect Others’ Parenting Health Care Decisions-Microchipping is One Reason
Why do we struggle to respect the health care choices other parents make for their children? I think the answer is: because “their decisions” potentially affect our own children. Several years ago, one of my students gave a presentation arguing against the use of VeriChip, which are microchip implants placed…
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Attention Brides-to-Be and those: “Serious about my Boyfriend”
Apparently, Christmas is among the most popular times for marriage proposals. I heard about a few of them over the holidays. Then, Valentine’s Day is just up ahead. That got me thinking… The following statements contain things that a few mid-life women I know wish they had asked themselves and…
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My face through my son’s hockey helmet
Throwback Thursday: 5/23/13 My son’s wide, blue eyes beamed through the cage of his hockey helmet, and I noticed he was really looking at me. I was standing over him in the Emergency Room, as he lay on a stretcher, still in full uniform from the concussion he suffered an…
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Should “their good” be good enough?
At his part time job, my son’s work is organized, clean and excellent, leaving the managers counting on him for more important responsibilities than other employees. My son is the teenager at his part time job who does what he is told to the very best of his ability. Maintaining…
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Must We Really have “Drive-Thru Ash Wednesday” and “Drive-Thru Funerals”?
Dare I say that I’m officially getting old? Probably so, because although I’ve always been highly productive and not one to waste a minute of time, lately I’ve never felt more pushed from behind to speed it up. I’m sure you can relate to at least a few of these…
Tales from a Mid-Lifer 