The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • Endless forgiveness

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    I read Boris Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago, all about the horrors of World War I, the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War. By the time I finished the book, I was feeling a little down, but I found a good remedy to cheer me up. I spent a few days in Mitford with Father Tim…

  • What keeps people sharp

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    We’re all going to live longer. That’s the conclusion of the February 23, 2015, issue of Time magazine. It features an adorable baby and the headline “This baby could live to be 142 years old” on the cover. Inside, I found this advice from Laura Carstensen, director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. “I keep…

  • Listening can be more helpful

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    Ranna, Fayteen’s daughter, still has major health problems. My brother-in-law continues to get weaker, so weak that he can’t walk by himself. A neighbor’s father died suddenly. What do you say? Listening is often more helpful than talking, advises Susan Silke, a clinical psychologist, and Barry Goldman, an arbitrator and mediator, in the April 14,…

  • You are what you eat

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    I’m trying to practice some advice I read in the December 7-13, 2014, issue of the Weight Watcher Weekly. “If you are what you eat, make sure it’s good,” the publication advises. For me, that means refraining from stuffing myself with whatever I find in the kitchen—a leftover, not-so-fresh, piece of cake or a box…

  • What’s success for a girl?

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    Jennifer Floyd Engel questions how much effect ads that seek to empower girls can have. “We can make 1,000 ads about empowering girls, but until we change what defines success for them, it will be an uphill climb,” Engel, who blogs at blogslikeagirl.tumblr.com, writes in The Dallas Morning News. “Because what we tell girls every,…

  • The news is short, but not sweet

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    The clamor is getting louder. The experts agree on one fact. We’re consuming too much sugar. Now the World Health Organization recommends cutting our intake of sugar to six to 12 teaspoons a day. And, you could get that much sugar in a single can of soda. Here are some more facts from a March…

  • Are you hungry?

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    I just had a wonderful visit with my son, Jay, and my brother, James, and his two adult children, Willie and Emma. It was a wonderful visit, but, after they left, I realized that I had spent four days overeating. I ate a couple of big pieces of Jay’s birthday cake with ice cream. I…

  • Anne Whitney and Lady Godiva

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    I was intrigued when I saw a statue of Lady Godiva recently at the Dallas Museum of Art and noticed that the sculptor was Anne Whitney, who was born in 1821 and died in 1915. The museum’s information explained that Lady Godiva rode naked through the streets in midday in an effort to get her…

  • The penalty for gluttony

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    Remember the seven deadly sins, standardized by Pope Gregory I in 590 CE? They are pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed and sloth. Thanks to Steven Pinker and his book The Better Angels of Our Nature—Why Violence has Declined, I just discovered the penalty for gluttony—and I think the prescribed punishment must be one of…

  • Addicted to sugar?

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    “Sugar is addictive,” wrote James J. DiNicolantonio and Sean C. Lucan in the December 22, 2014, issue of The New York Times. “And we don’t mean addictive in that way that people talk about delicious foods. We mean addictive, literally, in the same way as drugs….Cravings induced by sugar are comparable to those induced by…