A November Friday, Taking Stock

With only six weeks left in the year (Whoa!), especially since I’ll be travelling most of the last month, this seems a good time for a bit of stock-taking, and I love the template Pip…

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Monday, Monday — Of Moods and Friends and The Possibilities of Reaching Out

I’ve been wrestling with a very low mood again this weekend, and without boring you (and giving up all my privacy) with details, I’ll just say that once this creeps in, it becomes physical, something between…

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Blogging and Murals, My (Visible) Eye In/On the World . . .

As I struggle, some days, to know whether it’s worth continuing to write in this space, I go back to some of the reasons I’m doing so. There has been so much emphasis, especially here…

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Of Bikes and Bees and Things that Please. . .

Cycling this route was what I chose to do on our 43rd anniversary last week, to please myself. I clarified the choice as I wrote my “morning pages” my husband still sleeping. Some of you…

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What I’m Wearing: To Please Myself

 The post I had planned for this morning wasn’t really an “outfit post.” Instead, I was using the playful exhortation on this t-shirt as an entry-point to tell you about my efforts lately to figure…

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