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Slippery When Wet Five ways to keep from breaking your neck when the things get sloppy It’s been raining up here in the North East. It’s one of those 2-week periods where it rains almost every day. It’s good for the vegetable garden. It’s good for the plants and the ducks. It’s not so good …
A short review of a short book on fear. There is an imprint in the UK, part of Random House publishing called “Quick Reads” that published short books. I know this because I bought one. It was called “Feel the Fear and do it anyway” by Susan Jeffers. I did not know I was buying …
Cape Cod The footsteps of Thoreau. I am browsing through a copy of Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod that I received as a gift. He wrote consistently through his life. He read consistently too. He read in many languages and had a broad, scholar’s grasp of the available literature of antiquity. I have read Walden, …
Strengthsfinder 2.0 Lifelong learning includes learning about you. I recently read a book and took the assessment for a methodology called StrengthsFinder 2.0. I make it a practice to continually learn and especially continually learn about myself. There are a number of these social psychology type methodologies available that try to organize the messiness of …
Inner Peace It’s that time of year. It’s that season. Where people are stressed. Ironically the time of year where you are supposed to be celebrating family and togetherness is when there is the most stress. The holidays are where, even if you’re not prone to stress, you start to feel it. Unfortunately, this time …
