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Read more: Happy 104th Birthday, Ola!I stopped to visit my husband’s Aunt Ola a few days before her 104th birthday. Ola, dressed in a bright red pants and sweater, was…
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Read more: How about a disconnected vacation?It required all of the logistical skills of a very determined mother to find a week this summer when my husband and two college-student children…
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Read more: Is it time for vacation yet?As I explained in a recent blog post, I am trying to finish an assignment from a client, help my daughter move into a new…
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Read more: Can you create your own Walden Zone?As we explained in a recent blog post, Williams Powers writes in his book Hamlet’s Tables about how Shakespeare’s Hamlet used his “tables” to make…
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Read more: A little advice from Shakespeare and HamletAs William Powers reminds us in his book Hamlet’s Blackberry, London during the late 16th and early 17th centuries was a bustling, chaotic place. People…
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Read more: Some good advice from Horton FooteIf you’ve been reading this blog for a while, we hope you’ve gotten the message that we’re not trying to give advice or tell anyone…
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Read more: Sometimes it’s good to share the stressI still remember the joys of parenting two lively young children—and also I remember a few stressful days. My husband Jerry was traveling a great…
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Read more: Do you have any holes to fill?Jane Pauley, the award-winning journalist, passes on some advice she received from a graduate student. Here is the student’s advice: “Somewhere in our childhood is…
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Read more: Focus on your prideWhen we go out to eat, should we think about how bad we feel if we eat the fried fish, French fries and chocolate cake?…
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Read more: Is it time to update your story?I just had a root canal. It was my second root canal. The first time I had to have the procedure done, I got a…