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Autumn Leaves: A memory

posted on December 11, 2019 by Janet Givens
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  Whenever I travel, I come home with new observations, new ideas, new insights. This past Thanksgiving trip driving to and from Ohio was no different. But first, here’s a photo my younger granddaughter, Kendall (now 13), captured of Woody and Sasha on Thanksgiving morning. She texted me her caption: Sasha is comfy. I was… more »
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Thoughts on Mortality: A guest post from my husband

posted on December 4, 2019 by Janet Givens
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Over the years I’ve mentioned my husband, Woody, from time to time. Today for the first time (and hopefully not the last), Woody talks to you directly.  I think you’ll come away understanding how I could fall in love with him so easily. His writing style is conversational, authentic, and personal. I’m very pleased to… more »
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A New Look at Thanksgiving: the strange ritual we pull off each year

posted on November 27, 2019 by Janet Givens
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It really is a strange ritual we pull off each year. We mean well, with this Thanksgiving of ours, but intention only carries so far. The Thanksgiving myth, you know, is a fiction. A nice fiction, a Norman Rockwell fiction, but fiction nonetheless. Did our WASP ancestors eat with the locals way back when?  Probably,… more »
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LEAPFROG is here!

posted on November 20, 2019 by Janet Givens
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It’s been a long gestation, longer than you’d expect for such a small book.  But it’s finally here — sort of — and  you, my readers, were a big part of it (you’re in the Acknowledgments). I’m excited to announce that the paperback version of my civil discourse handbook is here, will be here soon,… more »
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Get Real: A look at ageism

posted on November 13, 2019 by Janet Givens
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This is not a DST story.  It is a turn back time story though. Sort of. A story came to my attention last week that I just couldn’t ignore.  Along the lines of the breastfed six-year old post I did a few years ago, or the posts I’ve done more recently on fake news —… more »
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Fake News Redux

posted on November 6, 2019 by Janet Givens
Or should that be Faux News Redoe? It’s late; I’m trying to be cute. My apologies. Today I’m revisiting the post I did two weeks ago.  Here it is again if you missed it: A Look At Fake News This list, which I included in that post, isn’t bad.  It’s been replicated many, many times,… more »
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A New Look at Halloween: who loves it and why?

posted on October 30, 2019 by Janet Givens
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It’s Halloween, the time to celebrate death. ghosts, goblins, vampires, and zombies. It’s the time you get to be someone or something else. For me, it’s the holiday when costumed strangers show up uninvited and demand some form of extortion before they go away. Whatever happened to the “tricks” part? Living as I do in… more »
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A Look At Fake News

posted on October 23, 2019 by Janet Givens
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Fake news is nothing new. Fifty years ago this week, the world reeled with the news that Paul McCartney – the really cute Beatle – had died and been replaced with an imposter!  For those caught up in the Beatlemania of the mid’60s, this was shocking news. Here’s a fairly sane summary of those times… more »
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A new look at boredom

posted on October 16, 2019 by Janet Givens
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As promised, we’re looking at boredom today: the irony and the paradox. I’ll begin by admitting I don’t remember ever feeling bored. Ever. Maybe I was and have long since forgotten; that’s a possibility. But in general, feeling bored is not something with which I can identify. So I am aware that I have no… more »
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