I’ve posited in the past that no one in the States would be reading blog posts on Thanksgiving morning, and I’ve been wrong (comments proved me so). So if you’re sneaking on-line after stuffing the turkey, do have a wonderful day with your family and friends. Don’t eat too much! Cheers, t.
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The five characters I would most like to have dinner with…and why. Actually, I’m going to cheat and add a bonus meal, because I just can’t drop the list down to five. These are five (or so) fiction characters with whom I would love to sit down to a long, leisurely dinner. There would be
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Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime–and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows. Robert A. Heinlein – The Notebooks of Lazarus Long This Heinlein quote has become a personal mission of mine. I first read Time Enough for Love (the book from which nearly all of
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This is Part II of a two-part post. You can read Part I here. The Second Dark Spread Fast forward five more years, and Mark and I were doing a six-month special reading, one for each other. I don’t remember now what his was like. But I remember mine. Nearly every single one of the
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This is Part I of a two-part post. Because I can never write short. 🙂 I had never seen Tarot cards until I arrived in Canada. I knew what they were, but wasn’t much interested in fortune telling, which in my opinion was right down there with snake oil, charms and tea-leaf reading – they
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To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. Robert A. Heinlein – The Notebook of Lazarus Long We’ve all heard the expression “set in their ways” – which is the other side of the coin to Heinlein’s observation. There’s growing scientific evidence that “age” is a state of mind
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To everyone in the US, have a fabulous 4th of July weekend. Hope it’s a great one for you, filled with fireworks and family time.
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I’ve had a major revelation in the last few weeks and it has resulted in a slowly improving self-esteem and confidence. You can do it, too. It’s dead easy. What happened? I came across a HuffPo article about how well plus-size models are doing in New York these days. …and read it. It’s not like
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If it can’t be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. Robert A. Heinlein – The Notebook of Lazarus Long _________ I’ve had my nose rubbed in science a lot lately, probably because it’s been on my mind. I know you’ve had patterns like that happen to you, too. You’re thinking about
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It’s Victoria Day in Canada today. Public holiday, summery month…it’s one of the best long weekends in the year. We will be ripping out all the interior walls on the main floor of our house this weekend, and putting up a support beam in their place. It’s one of the prep stages before we do
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