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Yes, it’s another 50 year anniversary post. Do you know which one? March 13, 1969 — ring any bells? No? Welcome to today’s real topic: How easily we forget. Fifty years ago today, Apollo 9 returned to earth. “Which one was Apollo 9,” you ask? Not the one that went all the way to the… more »
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I’ve been thinking of adding an extra day of blogging but got bogged down with the “What” and the “When.” I love how the universe pops up every now and again to answer my call. This Two for Tuesday tag prompt is the brainchild of Rae (Theeducatednegra.blog, whose tag line I love: If you’re colorblind,… more »
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Originally entitled, “Converting the Heathen Among Us,” this post was going to overwhelm you with the advantages of WordPress.org over WordPress.com I was quite certain you’d thank me. But, as so often happens as I write, my thoughts evolved and I was myself converted. Here’s what happened.   I’ve long divided the world into camps, tribes… more »
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Sasha here, once again, on assignment from Alpha Mom who is sleeping. Again. She’s been doing that alot the past few days and finally told me to just go “write something about sugar.” “I’m going off sugar.”  Alpha Mom has been saying that for months, well, weeks anyway. She picked January 1 because, well, why… more »
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An Interview from EsmeSalon.com Interview with Janet Givens from “Author Janet Givens”   Late this summer I was featured on the EsmeSalon.com blog where I answered 20 questions: 10 about my blog and 10 about me. Reciprocity being what it is, I’m posting it here  for those who might have missed it last September. In… more »
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With apologies to those cultures for whom summer ended on September 1, and those who live in the southern hemisphere, this week we’re going to have a little summertime fun.   Those of you who follow me on Facebook know that I am a moderator for one of the many Facebook Groups I’m a part… more »
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Subtitled: Yanny and Laurel Redux Did you get caught up in the Yanny or Laurel frenzy? It seemed to be the top feature story across the nation.  Yes, that link will let you listen in on what half the world heard last week. Yes, I listened too.  The first time the word was OBVIOUSLY Yanny.  But… more »
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Two weeks ago, in Cultivating Empathy: My Journey to Understand, I shared this fairly common definition of empathy: the ability to walk in the shoes of another person, to live their life momentarily, to understand the world inside their head.  And I asked, Won’t more empathy make the world saner, safer, and more just? Today,… more »
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  Diane Ackerman wrote a lovely (delightful actually) book called Cultivating Delight.  It was a memoir of sorts, but, subtitled A Natural History of My Garden, it was also a garden book. I’m pulling from that title for today’s post, Cultivating Empathy: My Journey to Understand. By the way, for clarity, I’m defining empathy as the ability… more »
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