The Resolute Woman

Category: stress

  • A Christmas tradition

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    Christmas is a wonderful holiday, full of meaning. But, it is a busy time. “I get started early,” I told my husband a couple of days ago, “but I always end up behind.” It’s a Christmas tradition. I always feel a bit overwhelmed. How can I focus on the meaning of the season and avoid…

  • It’s December!

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    Everyone came to our house Saturday night for a birthday party. Then, on Sunday, I helped a friend with her open house. Last night, my husband and I went to the symphony. This afternoon, my friend Olga is coming from Austin, and tonight Olga and I are going to our book club’s annual Christmas party.…

  • Peace

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    “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without,” Buddha said. Today I am not feeling peaceful. I am looking at a list of more than 20 people who are supposed to show up at my house on Saturday for a birthday party for my friend Susie—and I am thinking of everything I need to…

  • An instant vacation

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    I have retreated to my office on a warm July day in Dallas. I have several errands that I need to do, but I dread braving the scalding summer weather. For a few minutes, I consider how wonderful it would be to spend a day on the beach at Galveston or in the mountains of…

  • Summer escapes

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    My son was laid off from his job at an energy company recently. My daughter is traveling in Mexico. And, my dog has a slight heart murmur. I worry—even though I know that Jay has severance and savings and he will find a new job—and I know that Mary Elizabeth will be safe with her…

  • Just get started

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    Timothy Pychyl, a professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, calls procrastination a coping mechanism gone awry in which people “give in to feel good.” When you feel tempted to procrastinate, the best thing you can do is to remember that you don’t have to be in the mood to do the task, Pychyl says. What…

  • Simple or complex?

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    “Everything is simpler than you think, and, at the same time, more complex than you imagine,” Goethe once said. My favorite Goethe quote is: “Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.” However, Goethe has a number of other quotes I really like—and some people contend that my favorite Goethe quote didn’t really…

  • The reason people worry

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    I love quotes, and I especially love finding a quote—a bit of wisdom—that seems written just for me. Here’s one I found recently while browsing at Barnes & Nobles. “The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work,” Robert Frost once said. I’ll share another quote with you…

  • A woman who had strife in her life

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    In 2003, the actress Patty Duke, who died March 29, 2016, played Aunt Eller in a Broadway revival of the musical “Oklahoma!” By then, the actress, wrote Frazier Moore for The Associated Press, “had spent a dozen years living in Idaho with her fourth husband,….seeking refuge from the clutter, noise and turmoil of the big…

  • A little poison

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    Un poquito de veneno no mata. Or, in English, a little poison will not kill. We found this reminder about the importance of moderation in a delightful book by Charles Aranda called Dichos—Proverbs and Sayings from the Spanish.