Lifestyle and career
I learned to be a girl from Laura Ingalls from Anne of Green Gables from Clara Barton who taught one-room school tamed wild horses learned to throw like a boy. I learned to be a girl from Robin Hood not Maid Marian, from someone with the grace and kindness to take from the rich...
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I like cheesecake. Sure, we all know that cheesecake is unhealthy. Didn’t stop me from taking a bite a few nights ago. Why? Because it feels good. When you want to change something in your life, knowing intellectually that it will be good for you is next to useless. What we need instead is...
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As part of my work as a life coach, I follow the work of other coaches. It keeps me fresh, creative, up to date. Recently I got a newsletter from Morgana Rae about marketing and sales. Sell what people want, she says, not what you think they should want. In her case she writes,...
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We are educators. Every one of us. We are educators because we inspire questions. The minute someone thinks we represent an answer, we become educators, whether we want to or not. We teach people about who we are, what the range of possibilities is, what can go wrong, what can go right. Maybe we...
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This being the internet age, postal mail is rapidly becoming a thing of the past: quaint, momentous, or archaic, and not something you get every day. Email, on the other hand, has more than covered the gap. Not only do we get personal email and junk email and bills by email, we also sign...
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Clean spaces have never been my forte. From the time I was very young, I’ve looked for ways to avoid cleaning. I don’t like sorting or filing or dusting or putting away my toys. Who knows why? It could be because I never felt like I really had good places for everything; it could...
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We have a problem. It’s a collective cultural problem. No matter what gender you began with, which gender you end up with, who you love, who you sleep with, or what you do for a living, if you speak English, it’s your problem, too. The most recent evidence of this problem is, of all...
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The Holidays are here. In the Northern Hemisphere that means most of us have more indoor time, less outdoor time, and a whole host of expectations. Some of them are good. Some of them…we could do without. Many, many of them have to do with our presence. We should be here or there; we...
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I remember it like it was yesterday. Years and years of frantic rummaging through my closet in the morning wearing nothing but underwear and socks. This one is too girly, that one is too butch for work, my boss told me I have to wear heels, I can’t even believe I have breasts why...
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