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Oct.22.2008
The world was going around me...I don't know how to explain it...
Feeling? Great. I feel great because I feel like I'm in control. A bit weird but like I'm in control...I felt at one time if I pushed it too much I would suffer the consequence but a push and a shove it was me against without my...
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Oct.19.2008
syn·ec·do·che (sĭ-něk'də-kē) n. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material...
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Oct.19.2008
Life is full of situations that make us consider and reconsider the decisions we’ve made. What if I’d gone to college straight out of high school? What if I’d gone to the Naval Academy instead of boot camp? What if I’d settled into writing in the eighties instead of talking about it on through...
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Oct.18.2008
I didn't expect much when I tuned in to the Al Smith Dinner, the charity event where presidential candidates make jokes about themselves and each other. I certainly didn't expect much from McCain, as stiff and old and tentative and angry and uptight and creepy and false as he's looked lately. But...
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Oct.16.2008
It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. This cliche implies that loving means getting, having. What of those that give, but don't get love to lose in the first place?
I've had nothing to lose my entire life. I've loved, and loved hard. I've loved people not in spite...
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Oct.16.2008
A few days ago, some friends and I were discussing my new job in terms of the sweet, vinyl-y smell of new school supplies.
Remember the feeling of back to school? Regardless of how you felt about school for the rest of the year, that first day was always full of excitement and hope. The...
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Oct.10.2008
Forget the financial crisis out there and how much your retirement funds have gone down. Enjoy your life instead.
There are many things that matter a lot more than money.
Here are some inspirational quotes about money to put things in proper perspective.
It's better to be out of money than out...
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Oct.10.2008
Two fascinating articles about the choices (freezing for future use, donating to medical research, adoption, destruction) faced by infertility patients about what to do with unused embryos appeared in the L.A. Times recently. Respectively titled "Infertility patients caught in the legal, moral...
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Oct.09.2008
From the conversations I have been having with friends and the assorted strangers I chat up on any given day lately, it's clear that it is easier to feel more like Eeyore than Tigger these days.
The one thing I know for sure, though, is that nothing is gained by wallowing in the news of it all...
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Oct.09.2008
Gentle Readers, I am sorry for my absence. I have a cold. Not just any cold, mind you. A irritating cold that has left me crabby, tired, and I'm becoming the lady who yells at children for playing and says: "Darned kids!" I am lazy, and I am feeling like a cuscus.
What is a cuscus, you...
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