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The Time of My Life

Ah… The bliss of long weekends. Today is Canadian Thanksgiving and although I never really got into the habit of eating turkey, I do like the part where you remember about gratitude. I was talking to my naturopath the other day about stress, its physical manifestations and ways to manage that. I talked about being…

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La Lune et Les Moutons

Nuit Blanche, the annual night-time art extravaganza, was last Saturday. I haven’t gone before because it’s the last weekend in September and and that usually means it’s cold, but there was this sheep thing down the street…. So we wandered out under the full Harvest Moon, headed to see Transhumance by Corpus. Originally based on…

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Generational Dissonance

The automatic door opener on my apartment’s front door decided to become processed this weekend. Perhaps it is Regan being a bad influence. Regardless of cause, the thing started opening the door repeatedly without provocation or encouragement from me. This was a tad unnerving. It was also extremely frustrating, as this is the mechanism that…

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Gone with the Wind

The weather was nice on Tuesday, warm and sunny, but fresh. I’d worked my derrière off for six days in a row and decided it was time to go zen out. So off I went to Sugar Beach. Once I got there, I discovered that the day that was fresh by my building was pretty…

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A Bite of Yellow

I’ve never met a plum I didn’t like, but the yellow are my favorites. They remind me of a Danish plum sort called reinekloder. They have the same contrast of a very tart skin and a sweet flesh – wait, that sounded a bit cannibalistic – albeit a bit more watery than the Danish variety….

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Life Line

There are times when this stress hits you so hard that you have made a conscious decision to build a wall against it. The stress can be a physical flare, unmanageable pain or the life crap that has a habit of happening without your consent. For me right now, it is the life crap. There…

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Opening Up

This is why I’m five days into a very necessary two weeks off. Actually, it was worse than that. It was the eyes going *boing* the minute I turned off the light, but no actual ideas coming, because my brain was moving so fast with everything I had done that day and needed to do…

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Not About RA

Well, that was a bit more than a flurry, wasn’t it? I think the last few weeks qualified to officially be named a perfect storm o’ work. And the really quite amazing thing was that I got through words without giving myself an injury – well, not a work-related one, anyway. We shall not speak…

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Resolved

It’s commonplace to make promises to yourself around this time of year and normally, my primary promises to not get caught up in the resolution obsession. Too often, it leads to a severe case of self-loathing as you take stock of your life and find it wanting, making promises to yourself that you don’t keep….

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How Lucky Are You?

Sometime in the last month or so, I read some suggestions for writing exercises somewhere and this one struck me. Or maybe it was from Katie Couric’s book, I forget. Point is less about where I found it than the question itself: How lucky are you? Nifty question, innit? Since yesterday wasThanksgiving here in the…

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Flatware Musings

You have to respect your limits.Keep track of your spoons so you don’t run out.Take care of yourself first, otherwise there won’t be any energy left over for other things. I tell other people do this all the time and I’m sure I sound very reasonable and at peace with the whole thing when I…

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As Helpful as a Scout

After the rain eased off on Sunday and the sun started peeping out from behind the clouds, I shut down my computer, grabbed my iPod and headed for the park. On my way home, I took the long way, wandering through the neighborhood and enjoying the day. I was headed towards an intersection behind a…

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