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Read more: Better than heroinI’ve never tried heroin. So, I’ll have to believe that Mary Karr knows what she’s talking about. “Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a…
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Read more: Friends are like quiltsMy good friend Mary, who was my roommate in college, sent me this wonderful quote. “Good friends are like quilts. They age with you, and…
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Read more: Augusta Chiwy, a Resolute WomanI had never heard of Augusta Chiwy, a Belgian nurse, until I read her obituary in the August 29, 2015, issue of The Dallas Morning…
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Read more: Avoid the duck syndromeToo many teenagers are pressured to be high-achieving in school and sports and music and community activities, says Gillian Barth in a column in the…
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Read more: Barrel through life with audacityLily Tomlin, the comedian and actress, has some advice that she would have given her younger self if she could. In an interview with Studio…
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Read more: What is Grit?Grit is the secret to success, conclude Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval in their new book Grit to Great. They say grit has four…
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Read more: Grit to Great“Passion and perseverance, it turns out, matter more than talent or intelligence when it comes to being successful,” argue Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval…
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Read more: What a worldAbby, one of the characters in Anne Tyler’s book A Spool of Blue Thread, remembers that the wicked witch in “The Wizard of Oz,” said,…
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Read more: A family that could be any of ours“Well, this is just great,” Jeannie told Denny, her brother. She stripped off her oven mitts and slammed them down next to her plate. “You…
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Read more: Fifteen teaspoons of sugarThe makers of several soft drinks and the American Beverage Association have launched a campaign that suggests “mixing lazy days with something light, following sweaty…