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| The end of the stumble |
| Date: 18th Aug |
| You know how you're walking along and then you trip over something, but you don't fall on your face, you just continue to stumble and trip, almost falling down, but not quite, until you finally catch your balance again? Starting school today was like that. Not like the stumbling part, but like catching balance at the end of the stumbling. ... |
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| A creature of habit |
| Date: 3rd Aug |
| When I am faced with a challenge, I follow the same steps:1. Decide what to do using a combination of logic and intuition/inspiration2. Fret, doubt my choices, and envision all possible ways my choice could go wrong.3. When the time comes to act, take a deep breath and do what I decided in step one.If choice and follow-through are right next to each... |
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| Living the cliche |
| Date: 2nd Aug |
| Why on earth does buying shoes make me feel better? I'm leaving for a convention on Tuesday. I am nervous. I worried about meeting all those people. I worried about feeling out of place and provincial. I was feeling all of these things as I left to run some last minute errands. One of the things I needed to buy was... |
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| Popped Balloons |
| Date: 9th Jul |
| I was browsing through my website today and found this piece I wrote last fall. I wanted to share it. My six year old daughter, "Gleek," got a balloon from a Halloween party. She was playing with it and it popped. I looked to her and she was sitting in stunned shock. I knew that tears were imminent, so I went to her. She looked at me "My... |
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| Not Balanced |
| Date: 2nd Jul |
| I frequently hear and read about people trying to achieve balance in their lives. When I think of balancing my life, I picture myself attempting to carefully support all my kids, and my housework, and the business stuff, and the writing ,and the wife stuff, and the Sandra stuff, and the religious stuff, and dinners made, and... |
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