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And the Next Stop Is…?

My dad is the jack-of-all-trades sort. Since he began working as a teenager, he’s been a deli employee, a telephone installation guy, a messenger in Manhattan, a business student, a draftsman, and an operating room nurse — talk about an assortment of e …

Your Turn: Stop and Smell the Roses

“How are you doing?” “Good…” (wait for it) “I’m crazy busy.” Why is it popular to say we are so busy when asked how we are doing? We wear busyness like a badge of honor and get seemingly defensive if we get out-ranked by someone else who has more on he …

Let It Go

The title is misleading, but I’m not blogging about Frozen this week. I’m writing about letting things go and having a mentality that is helpful to have not only in life, but also in relationships. I’ve had to let a lot of things go over the last sever …

Having a Fight and Then Blogging About It

I am an admitted conflict-avoider. I lived with roommates for six years during and after college and never had a single roommate conflict of any magnitude. Not because I didn’t need to, but because I flat refused to. I didn’t see the point of conflict. …

Keep Your Chin Up

As I’ve mentioned a few times before, I recently cut some foods out of my diet because I suspected food allergies or intolerances. When I asked my doctor about a food allergy test, he sent me to have some lab work done. To my surprise, everything came …

Your Turn: Cleaning House

If I share this with you, please promise not to write me off forever as a nerd. Recently, on a mission to tidy my room and discard things that clutter my life, I came across Mosby’s Medical Dictionary. It took up valuable real estate on my bookshelf, l …

Food for Thought

I’ve had some interesting adventures in the supermarket and the kitchen the last few weeks. I recently made a wholehearted decision to cut gluten, nuts, dairy and soy from my diet. That goes along with the caffeine and fast food I cut out about a month …

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