Here’s a tip: When using the brush roller on an upright vacuum (you know the one you use to suck up the stuff embedded in the carpet?), don’t run it over your bare toes. They will get sucked up into the roller. I’ll spare you a photo, but the purple color is telling me that … Continue reading Wear Shoes and Give a…Whatever.
I’m not the world’s most patient person, god knows, but I’m pretty happy with how I’m handling my impatience this week. My checkbook is probably not so happy - I’m a stress shopper - but mostly I’ve been buying Christmas and birthday gifts and cards, candles and dog treats, so at least it’s useful shopping. I … Continue reading Waiting
In therapy, I was taught that the key to effective communication is through “I” statements. They are meant to relate the speaker’s needs and/or feelings to the listener, as opposed “you” statements, which are usually accusatory, blaming, and contain negative attributions about the listener. Whites/people in positions of power have a long history of using … Continue reading To See, Change, and Unlearn: Confronting My White Privilege
A disclaimer before I begin: As many of you know, I don’t usually write publicly about politics generally or about my political ideology specifically. Politics, especially in recent years, can be so divisive, and I truly believe we have way more in common than not, so I focus my writing mainly on common grounds rather … Continue reading Hope is our only Hope
thriving and grief do go together
True Stories with Teeth
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Thoughts from a distant time zone
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Not quite Boomer, not quite Gen-X, but definitely not irrelevant. Here's to gray hair!
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Not quite Boomer, not quite Gen-X, but definitely not irrelevant. Here's to gray hair!
By Lisa Smith Molinari
random musings between column deadlines
Not quite Boomer, not quite Gen-X, but definitely not irrelevant. Here's to gray hair!
Not quite Boomer, not quite Gen-X, but definitely not irrelevant. Here's to gray hair!
on living a whole and healthy life
