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In Praise of Those Last Ten (…Or Twenty…) Pounds
In Praise Of Those Last Ten (...Or Twenty...) Pounds Oh, you ten (...or twenty...) pounds... You remind me: I am not a teenager anymore (Thank God) My life is not lived just for me alone anymore (Thank God) I’ve got good food and good wine and good appetite Thank...
Bouncing Back From Disappointment: Really Gettting Over It (Step One)
We all get disappointed sometimes. And mostly we follow a pretty simple process of feeling tremendously upset, thinking about it way too much, then finding some way to comfort ourselves and then moving on. With the help of some friends, some carb-heavy comfort food...
Ode To The Small Business Practitioner, or, Oh, You American Dreamer
Ode To The Small Business Practitioner, or, Oh, You American Dreamer And as you stand there Wondering About your Search Engine Optimization and Curious if this new Seminar might really be of some help and Kicking Yourself A Little for all the Work that is piling up...
In Praise Of The Grumpy
Click here to buy this t-shirt for the grouch in your life. IN PRAISE OF THE GRUMPY And as you stand there Arms crossed Managing to look both infinitely patient and impatient at the same time Trying not to roll your eyes and wonder how much longer all this will take...
An Ode To The Overwhelmed
AN ODE TO THE OVERWHELMED And as you stand there Late again Because you forgot to allow time to park And the elevator was slow And you left 10 minutes late to begin with With your shoes that pinch And your pants that are a little too small Since you started eating...
Among Them But Not Of Them
The Solitude Cure There is no real cure for loneliness. Except to transform it into solitude. Solitude is remembering that there has never, ever been a single (solitary) person like you. You arrived alone You'll die alone. And in between those two things, you will...
Confessions Of A Recovering Perfectionist, Part One
For years I resisted the word “perfectionist.” I thought that word sounded simplistic and anal-retentive. It reminded me of surface-obsessed people running white gloves over lampshades and endlessly rearranging boring red long-stemmed roses in cut crystal vases....
How To Wallow
I Can't Go On. I Can't Go On. I'll Go On., ww... by samanthabennett222 Design a refrigerator magnet With zazzle View other Motivational Magnets "> When you find yourself all bummed out and thinking dire my-life-is-a-failure-type thoughts, my advice is to...
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