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Just say it
Again and again. I just said this is unacceptable to me to the perpetrator. My horoscope: December 08, 2011 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Today is an exceptionally good day to make a clean sweep of things — whether that requires cleaning up a dirty room or clearing up a touchy misunderstanding between you and a friend. A fresh start is possible if you just do the work. Roll up your sleeves and get going as early in…
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Why Tin needs two mommies
Last night I forgot to put Tin to bed with a diaper. As I told Tin this morning, “Mommy wasn’t thinking.” He thought that was very funny, but Evan the alligator and Neno Medo did not think it was funny at all as they needed to be washed too!
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What would you do?
The Cat in the Hat ends with the question What would you do if your mother asked you? And so it is that I puzzle over what to do with a person who has some real problem that I can’t seem to mitigate. PROBLEM – hyper sensitive and hyper caring person continues to use the n-word almost Tourettes-style and doesn’t respond to my discouragement. Copralia affects about 10% of Tourettes sufferers and manifests itself in…
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Ten hours ago
Ten hours ago I headed to bed and to read – check. Last night Tin came in the bathroom as I washed my face and spotted Mick Jagger on the cover of an old NYT magazine and asked, Who’s that? I said Mick Jagger from a rock and roll band called the Rolling Stones and he laughed and said, “No that’s Mama.”
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To sleep – perchance to enter REM
Insomnia took over last night as lists danced in my mind as well as holiday lyrics the likes of “hang your head down Rudy hang your head down low” and I woke this morning to the full court press of getting dogs walked – Tatjana off to Croatia – Tin picked up and to the park then home and fed and nap and work and suddenly I felt like whoaza – what happened? Sitting by…
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The lens you see your life through
At my mother’s memorial service I said that she saw the world through Chardonnay colored glasses, and my sibling gasped. While I don’t advocate a lubricated life by any means, I do avow adjusting the lens makes all the difference in the world. Start with the statistics, right now in the United States, there are 13.3 million unemployed people. Ageism is at work everywhere not just because employers are ageists, more importantly these are the…
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Getting jiggy with it
It’s December 5th in case anyone forgot to tell you and that means this year is nearing the finish line and none too soon let me say. At the end of this year, I end my career with OTR Global and start my next career with all the joy and verve that took me down the last long road. The great thing about today is that I followed my fake it till you make it…
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The years are short
I was trying to get from Point A to Point B the other day as Tin was dawdling, his favorite pastime – I told him I was going to pick him up and carrying him if he didn’t bust a move and get with it and he chanted, “Bust a move, bust a move.” I just looked at him – impossible to move a toddler any faster, it is the equivalent of herding feral cats.…