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Jan.12.2013
I had five fiction writing sessions between today, yesterday and Thursday.
I spent about fourteen hours writing fiction on those three days. I also wrote at work, documenting and revising procedures, wrote personal and work emails, updated my work wiki on open issues, and posted to Red Room...
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Jan.11.2013
M1 had been under a bit of stress lately with college life.
I can tell.
She sighs a lot and sends out small hints with comments she makes.
I’ve been keeping a close watch on her suggesting that she consider taking yoga. She opted to go for a run one afternoon to release her...
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Jan.08.2013
For women, the second half of life brings with it many career choices and questions. For some women, continuing in a current career doesn’t fulfill personal, spiritual or financial needs as it once did. For others, re-entering the workforce has become a necessity due to the changes in the...
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Jan.08.2013
I spent the months of December, January and part of February offline and out of my office recovering from extensive surgery. Truth be told, it was life-saving, life-changing surgery. And that made it non-negotiable. For women like me, non-negotiable is often the only way self-care gets done.
We...
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Jan.03.2013
So a senior VP is retiring. It's like, yeah? So?
What difference did he bring to the office? I could never tell. It's the trickle down theory of management at work here with elements of the oral word game, telephone. By the time his words of wise guidance...
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Dec.28.2012
Walking back from their meeting, Jan clutches her file folder and notebook to her chest to keep all the warmth inside her down jacket. A cold lingers in her system. She starts coughing a horrible cough and her boss, Nevil, says, “are ya gonna live, Jan?”
“I think so,” she replies.
She’s gotten...
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Dec.13.2012
After I fell back asleep, I awoke with an epiphany about a work problem. I identified a common root cause in two problems and while I slept, I wrote an email about them in my head. Waking up, I reviewed the thoughts and email, surprised and pleased by my conclusions.
I'd already...
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Dec.13.2012
I passed a strange night of sleeping, awakening with epiphanies, and falling back asleep again.
Each epiphany concerned different areas - writing, work, dreaming, and mantras. With each, I awoke thinking about them, wrote a blog in my head about them, and then returned to sleep. I...
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Dec.13.2012
December 13
WHAT IS MINE
The cloud of snow slept in the tree overnight and poured from the branches with the morning breezes. Showers of crystal, dropping from a clear daylight sky, are telltales of intentions delayed. What was meant for moon time has been...
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Dec.12.2012
I have been working too hard on three projects at the same time... Well within the same time frame is maybe the better formulation. It is obvious that translating Rose Vandewalle’s sensitive poetry from Dutch into English, Sinzo Aanza, Congolese poet living in Lumumbashi. His images come from the...
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