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Give Yourself Permission to Succeed

I found a few articles today about giving yourself permission to succeed Learn How to Give Yourself Permission to Succeed by Noah St. John Forgive Your Inner Gollum, a blog post by Horse Pig Cow, via My Curious Life. A Room of Her Own by By Karen Houppert is a A beautiful, beautiful article about [...]

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Dare Mighty Things

I gave myself a fight-off-this-cold-before-I-get-it reprieve from my “to do” list yesterday, and read You Have The Power; Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear by Frances Moore Lappe and Jeffrey Perkins. I highly recommend it! I love that it was such a good book. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win [...]

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High Tide in Tuscon

Walking out in the rain today, I stopped in at the library for shelter and grabbed a book off the “Staff recommends” shelf: High Tide in Tuscon by Barbara Kingsolver. Below is an excerpt of the first essay. It was just what I needed. I’m often blessed by the God of Books. A hermit crab [...]

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Simple epiphanies

I woke up this morning from another night of strange dreams and all the thoughts that had been swirling around in my head, many from reading The Geography of Bliss, came together into one clear thought: There are many ways to live, I’m going to live happy!  It suddenly all seemed so clear! Yes, its [...]

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For one day only! Download “Oh No! I lost my Job!” for free

There are a couple things about this book that are making me jealous. #1 That I didn’t think of it!  #2 “The dole.” From the book: Before we get into the ins and outs of budgets, mortgages, credit cards, and all that kind of  stuff; let’s make three things absolutely clear:  • You are not [...]

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Take one Bon Ivers and call me in the morning

Take one half Fugitive Pieces. (book by Anne Michaels) Mix with old memories. Cry. Stir into a crying jag. Prepare to take a bath. Go on Facebook instead. Turn on your positive music. Feel better, then annoyed. Turn on your rainy day music instead. Take one Bon Ivers Skinny Love and call me in the [...]

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I’m a little afraid when I walk around my nice neighborhood

Warning to my gentle readers: lots of swearing. Wow, I just learned something about myself today, which kind of sucks. Well, I learned that I don’t want to acknowledge something that kind of sucks. With all the in-your-face violence that happens on TV and on the news, and, has happened in my life, you would think that [...]

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Memory and what I want to remember (supermemo)

I just finished reading a fascinating article about memory at Wired magazine by Gary Wolf. Are you interested in memory? Whenever I see ads for memory systems, I’m never interested. It looks incredibly boring and the processes themselves usually involve detailed information that I would need to learn and remember. On the other hand, I [...]

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Great book to help your kid (and you!) learn how to make friends

I got The unwritten rules of friendship : simple strategies to help your child make friends from the library. No, I don’t have kids! I got it for me. I got it on the sly. Yes, yes, librarian, I am an astounding social success, and clearly a concerned mother, but my poor kid needs some [...]

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…Yeah, a wanderer…

I’m reading Refuse to Choose by Barbara Sher. It’s about getting use all your interests, passions and hobbies and is way more helpful than I anticipated. She calls people who are interested in lots of things “scanners”, separates scanners into cyclical and sequential scanners, and separates those into subtypes. I love her examples of talking [...]

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