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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Attention span strategies: things to listen to

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Presumably, we're all at home, and looking for things to do. (And if you have an essential job, and you're not at home, thank you. I...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

Alone Again, Naturally Happily. (Apologies to those of you who are old enough to remember that song.)

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I was born in 1961, right at the end of the era where the entire culture was pretty much in agreement that you should conform to what was ex...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

dispatch from home

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1. We had plenty of time to talk about pandemics last week as we self-quarantined here in our house on our Not-a-Vacation. Here is my Not-an...
Monday, March 16, 2020

The vacation that wasn't. And Emma.

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We were supposed to head south with our kids this week for spring break, but the day before we left, the director of the NIH said he wouldn...
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Friday, March 6, 2020

Things My Mama Taught Me #11: Never Run out of Toilet Paper

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1. A friend told me that Costco was out of toilet paper the day she'd been there because of all the people panic-stocking for possible q...
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

7ToT: a few further thoughts on Amazon, and way too much about movies

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1. Of course within days after I wrote that post about my Amazon dilemma, Dean told me his office was having a baby shower for one of his ...
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Friday, January 31, 2020

mental health at midlife, "one" more thing

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At the end of my last post on midlife mental health (there's another one here ), I said there was one more piece I wanted to tell you a...
Friday, January 24, 2020

The Amazon dilemma

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I'll admit it, I started out as a huge Amazon fan. When they first opened in 1994, they sold books, every book you could imagine, and th...
Friday, January 10, 2020

Instead of seven things, just one.

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Years ago-- I'm getting to the age where all my stories start with years ago -- I took a year of Chinese language classes at our communi...
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Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Out with the old year (decade!), in with the new. Hello, 2020.

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I have a life-long cycle of getting overloaded with commitments (especially around the holidays, of course) and then getting so stressed tha...
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