Category: People
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The Constant Juggle
My daughter found out I’d taught myself to juggle 20 years back and now wants me to teach her. I’m having to re-learn myself. I wasn’t a master at it, but I could do a few tosses before I lost the groove. Then things happened – you know, college, work, being dumb with your friends…
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40
I’m newly 40. I think the culturally accepted response for Western women when confronted by this number is to freak out. But I don’t feel this way, truth be told. The thing is, I look around at everyone else (Don’t you roll your eyes and sigh at me, young man! You do it, too!), like…
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A new year, a new list
Of course everyone has their resolution list. Do this, stop doing that, be better, go here, save there, etcetera ad nauseum. So I thought I’d let you in on mine. BWAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! Ohhhh… ouch. Ohhh, I think I pulled something… I’ve got to stop telling jokes like that. I’ll give myself a hernia if…
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A Friday Funny
Not terribly original, but I did write it a few years back. With the holidays coming, I thought we all could use a laugh. The 2000th Annual International Nirvana Achievement Competition It was an exciting day today at the Shamshara Insight Convention Center, hosting the 2000th Annual International Nirvana Achievement Competition, with competitors from all…
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I Need Clean Undies…
I hope this is a joke or something… Maybe something that truly exposes what kind of a luddite I really am? Hopefully? See, my fear is that if it works there, who else will pick it up?
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Creativity and Meds
Balancing Creativity and Mental Illness For as long as I remember, there has always been a link between the “creative types” and some form of mental illness. High rates of depression, bi-polar, “somethin’s just not right with little Ray,” whatever. And while the above article doesn’t do much except to re-iterate something that has been…
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