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Friends – to be, or not to be
What constitutes a friend? When is someone just an acquaintance? Can you really say that someone is your “BFF” if you’ve only known them for a year? When is it time to admit that they just are not that...
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Thanksgiving, the other way.
I hate the holidays. They always feel like a nasty game of musical chairs. If you end up without a chair at a table, you are the loser. So everybody tries to find a place to be, even if that place...
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Poem – friend. (predictive text)
First of a little (there are some) for example and I am not a lot. Remember the old standbys? Remember what you want and need. Rather than being eased really our own feelings lead. It isn’t about...
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Poem – How to get sober.
One moment at a time, not one day. At the beginning, a day is too long too stretched out, too scary. At the beginning an hour feels like an eternity packed with uncertainty and dread. At the beginning...
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Fat shaming
There’s been a lot recently about how people who are overweight are tired of being picked on. They want to be left alone. I get that. I used to be obese. I wasn’t hot on the fact that I couldn’t easily...
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Cooking as an empowering act.
I’ve come to see cooking not as a chore but as a truly artistic and creative act. It is so empowering to feed myself. It is amazing to know that the majority of the prepared foods we have in our...
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Personal accountability
I knew a guy who joined a gym, and he wanted me to “Make him accountable.” He wanted me to remind him to go, and to ask him if he had gone. I didn’t. I made sure to tell him that I wouldn’t. That isn’t...
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Not letting the disease win.
Sometimes my motivation to do something is simply so that the disease will not win. I have bipolar disorder, which is a polite way of saying I am manic-depressive. I’ve noticed that I tend to become...
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In whose hands?
Some of us started talking about our deceased coworker, and I mentioned that his death of a heart attack at 42 just furthers my belief that I need to take care of myself. I said this to the coworker in...
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Heartburn cure
I had bad heartburn and talked to my nutritionist. He told me that the problem is that our stomachs produce LESS acid as we get older, not more. The solution is to add more acid instead of take...
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