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Basic Goodness
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one’s own goodness. –Michel de Montaigne Many relationships suffer from a lack of self-esteem. A relationship’s self esteem is connected to that of the partner’s but it also has a life of its own. Genuine esteem is ...
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12 Steps to Alleviate Arthritis: Part 2
In the first part of this article you learned about the first 10 steps I use with my arthritic clients. Now I’ll share the remaining steps I use to help lessen symptoms, particularly pain, and promote healing. 11. Add remedies and/or therapies that help with pain management. When ...
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The Nature Of Love
On the peaks of the Andes, water turns into snow. It changes form, but it’s still water. Then it changes again and becomes a glacier, a river of ice. Then the lake and the sun seduce the glacier and it starts to melt and unite with the river. It too is incredibly beautiful, the bluest [...]
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Cool Knitting Reflections (with pattern)
I loved reading your knitting reflections last week. When did knitting get to be so cool? Lately, I've also been reflecting on my relationship and trends in knitting. As a college student, learning to knit was solely for selfish reasons. I wanted warm Icelandic type sweaters for hanging out in ...
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Finding Gratitude
“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how’d ya like the play?” is one of my very favorite phrases. In the midst of any difficult situation, it brings in just a bit of laughter. The last couple of years have been Mrs. Lincoln for many people around the world. Foreclosures, business ...
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Sit! Stay! Now Grow Up: Is Raising Children Anything Like Raising Dogs?
Soon after I graduated into parenthood, I found myself deep into casual party conversation with fellow parents about the vexing particulars of parenting. People (parents and strangers included) are rarely shy about dispensing the bit of wise parental advice, and this party was no exception. ...
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3 Ways To Get Through The Day
Life is an exciting and outrageous adventure. Isn’t it a wonder how a spider weaves a web or a bee makes a hive? Did you ever notice the everyday miracles, like your breath? Isn’t it amazing that this greatest wonder of all is right under your nose? But how many of us get to truly ...
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A Bird-Free Thanksgiving Feast
I love birds. I love to see them flying by, perching on branches, trotting across a meadow. Seeing one in a roasting pan or splayed out on a Thanksgiving platter? Not so much. But the thing about a holiday turkey is that it has become the iconic symbol screaming “festive!” ...
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Ask the Loveologist: Harder, Longer?
I sometimes have issues keeping an erection for as long as I (and my partner) would like and have heard that there are some rings you can use to keep an erection longer- is that true and is there any danger in using them? Penis rings or P-rings, also called C-rings are an increasingly [...]
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Decking the Halls Too Soon?
The holidays are just around the corner. Or, maybe they’re already here? It seems that holiday decorations are popping up in stores, malls, on streets and homes earlier than ever before. I was in Macy’s two weeks before Halloween, the trees were trimmed and the holiday tunes were ...
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This Black Friday Send Corporate America a Message and Just Say No
This coming Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is a bleak day in the United States known as Black Friday. I sadly felt compelled to write about it last year, and this year am hitting it ahead of the curve and hopefully with a piece of advice. Black Friday, as many of you may know, is the [...]
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Sickly Saturday
A-CHOO!-Sniffle-Sniffle-Hack-Hack-Wheeeeeeze… Nana Janet was in day four of dealing with the plain, ordinary common cold that’s been running rampant through the ‘hood; I was feeling miserable from that respiratory ailment where at first you feel so rotten that think you might ...
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The Art of Inclusive Language
Inclusive language can be a virtual minefield for writers, where any misstep can result in offending the reader. Even if the writer lives with chronic illness or disability, the possibility of offending others is ever-present. Did I say that right… “lives with chronic illness or ...
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6 Tips For Cutting Through Greenwashing
Plenty of products are trotting out their green credentials, but how can consumers and the people who build and decorate homes for us - architects, builders and interior designers, tell what’s transparently green, or greenwashing? Metropolis magazine recently asked designers - builders, ...
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Why Ask Why? Children Asking the Same Question Over and Over Again
It is so common that it makes you laugh to yourself when you witness it with another child, as I did the other night. I was in a restaurant with my son when I heard, coming from a neighboring table, a litany of “why” questions. These are often those meandering and tangential queries ...
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Don’t Forget
Saturday, June 22, 1961 Hanging over the balcony rail of New York’s Majestic Theater was an almost 12-year-old girl falling deeply, passionately in love for the very first time. Tales of the brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson were juvenile; belief in tooth-hoarding pixies, ...
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The Cat-astrophic Cat-alyst
It’s been nearly six years since that dreadful night, but to this day I still can’t catch the slightest whiff of smoke without reliving the moments that nearly drove my world asunder. My daughter, Amanda, and I worked for a company that scored standardized tests; she, a computer whiz ...
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Wired to Connect
Sustainable love skills, the kind that we use as a compass to keep us connected to vital, healthy and happy relationships, are now being recognized as skills that might just save our species. We finally have the scientific equipment to verify what we have always known: our drive to be social, to ...
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10 Ways to Use Chopsticks
I am almost embarrassed to mention that one of my kitchen drawers is dedicated to disposable chopsticks. Let me explain: the collection was fodder for a fabulous reuse project that I made with many, many school kids. Handmade knitting needles was the project. While I still knit with the handmade ...
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12 Steps to Alleviate Arthritis: Part 1
The severe side-effects and deaths linked to some medications leaves many arthritis sufferers looking for safe, natural and effective alternatives to prescription drugs. Fortunately Mother Nature has a massive apothecary full of safe and powerful remedies in the form of herbs, foods, and ...
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