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Read more: A Thousand LivesSome good friends gave me a Spiritile—a magnificent tile made of copper, glass and wood. Mine glimmers with a picture of a stack of colorful…
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Read more: Letting go of booksWhile my shattered femur has been healing, I have been inspired to do a little cleaning. I’ve been sorting through old business and personal papers—and…
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Read more: A good book awaiting me“Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes the day happier,” said Kathleen Norris. And…
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Read more: A state of tolerance“There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes,” says George Eliot in her novel Adam Bede. “I can’t afford to…
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Read more: Appreciation for simple pleasuresMy husband Jerry and I were sitting in one of our favorite Mexican restaurants carefully surveying the menu—even though we knew that we would order…
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Read more: Warm or Competent?Age may have some advantages, wrote Liza Mundy in an article in the Sunday, July 5, 2015, issue of The Dallas Morning News. Feminist scholars…
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Read more: Beware of security“Beware of security as a goal,” William Zinsser told graduates of Wesleyan University in 1988. “It may often look like life’s best prize. Usually it’s…
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Read more: Be your bestTry to be your best—not the best, says Kay Wills Wyma, author of I’m Happy for You (Sort of…Not Really): Finding Contentment in a Culture…
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Read more: Fat is relative“I wish I were as fat as I was the first time I thought I was fat,” says Kay Wills Wyma, author of I’m Happy…
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Read more: Misty Copeland, Resolute WomanMisty Copeland recently was named the first African-American woman to be a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre. “I had moments of doubting myself,…