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What Are Your Skills?

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Are skills innate or learned? As an identical mirror-image twin, this question has always interested me. There is so much online that argues one way or the other. If you Google the words “improve your skills,” you will have hours, days, weeks, or even years worth of...

Handle It, Kate

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Before they moved to Florida, I’d stay with my grandparents in the summertime when I was a kid. My grandmother was a hard-working woman who wasn’t afraid to get outside and get dirty. We canned tomatoes on her screened-in porch and rode bicycles down the dirt road she...

To Get Something Done, Simply Begin

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This has been a blog topic idea for a while, and well, I’ve procrastinated writing it. Other priorities always seem to get in the way. Growing up, my mother always said, “Do your (homework, chores, music practice) now because tomorrow you may get the best invitation,...

Hula Hooping Through Life

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All through life, I’ve promised myself that I would jump at every opportunity to celebrate life. This was not too difficult years ago. But after a 20+ year marriage, two kids and various pets to care for, full-time employment, school volunteering, a mortgage, (etc.,...

Economic Solution to Pollution

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Americans have a love affair with their automobiles. They’re a huge part of our lives and they’re not going away any time soon. But motor vehicles generate more air pollution than any other single human activity. Hell, wars have been fought to protect our right to oil...
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