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Feb.24.2012
Today set me up.
It was a pleasant day, cold and sunny. I wrote, enjoyed what I wrote, and finished many tasks at work. The tasks at work, though, were the usual tedium of updating data, analyzing it, listening to business cases and service challenges, on and on. There was no joy.
The best...
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Jan.22.2012
The attachment is the first page of an anonymous suicide letter I'd happen to inherit. The content is penetrating yet analytical, critical and assuredly incisive. The letter is cathartic and quietly simplistic. If you read this first page try not to be fooled by its format its displayed...
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Dec.30.2011
My wife and her friend have been conspiring. They feel their other friend needs a girl day out, just the girls shopping and lunch, their treat. So they've talked it out between the three of them, finalizing their plans....
They thought the friend needed a girl day out because she's always with her...
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Dec.23.2011
There are a lot of people in the world who only want to be entertained. If you're a writer, or someone who wants to be a writer, that's good news.
I'm surprised every time I meet someone whose main goal seems to be to observe. These are people who consume movies, TV shows, books, museums,...
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Nov.24.2011
November 24
Jet Lagging
Baby’s feet kick in the isle and we are all cocooned in our seats. The movies play and earphones dangle in our ears. We are jetting across the country in our own little worlds. Landing can not happen soon enough for me,...
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Nov.06.2011
I hopped on my motorbike and ran into the market in Kampot this morning. I had been by it a lot, and in stores around it, but this was the first venture inside. Markets are the lifeblood of Asia, and I don't think you can understand any Asian culture without spending time in its markets.The market...
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Oct.23.2011
We took a few days to travel to the town of Kampot, Cambodia and decided to move there. In two weeks we will be settled in for a time. We found an old wooden house, in immaculate condition, on the riverfront. It isn't in the main part of town, which is still a collection of interesting French...
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Aug.30.2011
To My Forties
I leave them lighter than when I started, one husband, two children, a uterus, a couple of friends, and about 60 pounds gone but not forgotten, especially the children, who are still around, thank god, but I don’t have to drive them anywhere.
No more Aikido or tutor or...
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Aug.04.2011
Just wanted to let you know that my second book, The High Heeled Guide to Spiritual Living is out and about and getting some rave reviews from readers and official types alike! It's been a mad journey writing and launching it, and I hope you will share in it.
If anyone is interested in reviewing...
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Jul.11.2011
July 11
Let God Do What?
I hesitate to let go to G-d because I fear that G-d doesn’t like me, or likes me now, but doesn’t like me all the time. I think I got this belief from being the only child of parents who don’t like children. It never mattered how good I was, how smart...
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