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  • How did I get here?

    How did I get here?

    Did you ever stop to think, “How did I get here?”

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  • Gratitude from Random Encounters

    Gratitude from Random Encounters

    Today I went to the grocery to buy some things for my book club. It’s my turn to host. At the checkout line, I noticed a publication. Big…

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  • Cows in the Career

    Cows in the Career

    I’ve been making notes for a collection of stories about weird things that happened in my career. Then, weirdly, I realized there have been a lot of cows…

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  • Untitled post 184

    I went to the local grocery store to pick up some manicotti shells. My turn to cook. Got to the pasta aisle and…there was only one brand of…

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  • Kindness, Civility and Self

    Kindness, Civility and Self

    Robert Levine died two weeks ago. You probably never heard of him. He was a social psychologist. I tore his obit out of the New York Times because…

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  • It’s all in the flexibility

    Last month, right after I committed to pay in advance for a year of unlimited yoga classes, the owner announced the studio was moving. Of course. The good…

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  • Deep Creek – Pam Houston Puts Her Heart on the Page

    Disclaimer: I. Love. Pam. Houston. Not in a bi-curious kind of way, but because I think we were separated at birth! I heard her read Chapter 3 of…

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