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  • Warning sign of Type 1 Diabetes

    Warning signs of Type 1 Diabetes? Where’s all the funny stuff I claim I write? I know! I know! Humor me and read this anyway. I promise, I will make up for the last few posts in the near future with funnier stuff. Now, back to the topic at hand . . . In an…

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  • A Plane of My Own

    We’re closing in on a century since Virginia Woolf combined her notes from a series of lectures she held and then put together into an extended essay called “A Room of One’s Own.” While the essay really addresses the need for women writers to have a literal as well as a figurative space in order…

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  • The Truth Behind Life’s Little Ironies (according to me).

    I sometimes think that the General Organizing Deity (i.e., GOD) has assigned am impish little character to oversee the order of things as perceived by humans here on earth. I’ve thought long and hard on the subject and have even given that being the job title of the Coordinator Responsible for Arranging Phenomenon (or CRAP…

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  • Separation of Work and Family

    A good friend called the other day when I was walking my dog and she was driving her morning commute to work. It was a Thursday in a week from hell for her. She’s in a new position that was taking up more of her time and attention than she had expected. She had worked…

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