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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde When I was a kid, I wanted to be anybody but me. This didn’t change when I grew up. Surrounded as I was by people cooler than me, prettier than me, almost invariably thinner than me,...
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It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old. Jules Renard I woke up the other day as 60. Sixty isn’t merely a number. It isn’t even just an age. Sixty is an entire freaking identity. I’m 60. Sixty. I don’t know what...
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But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are...
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Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers. Zack...
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Like so many young college women, she was raped by a male friend, someone she thought she could trust. She is the daughter of a friend of a friend – nobody you would know. Nobody I even actually know. Nor do I know the specifics...
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. Jean Paul Richter I am turning 60 on Friday. Sixty. Six – oh. Six 10s. Four 10s shy of 100. Sixty. Oy. And furthermore, vey. There’s probably a cool 19,178,082(.19178082) people born on October 2...
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The time slide is an interesting thing. It’s a spiral slide, in my experience and it’s several stories tall. You start out at a decent pace – and then you hit the slick spots and ye gods, off you go. One minute I was struggling...
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Not long after Debra DeAngelo wrote about belly shame (Introducing the term belly shame and destroying it all at once ), I added my two cents’ worth with “When belly shame is medical, too” (When belly shame is medical, too). In fear and trembling, I...
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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.   From a headstone in Ireland Yesterday would have been my adoptive father, my Rob father’s 93rd birthday. This is what I call a “first-without” and it is caustic...
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