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making decisions

30 Nov 2022

Anticipatory Regret: my time-honored method for making difficult decisions

Those of you who’ve been reading me for years knew Sasha and know that we put Sasha down last September. Yes, that was my last blog post. It’s time for another one and, once again, its theme is making a … Read More

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16 May 2018

FINDING MY TOPIC

Here I am two weeks out from my next blog post and I can’t decide what it’ll be on. I feel like I’m staring at a restaurant menu. Whether everything looks great or nothing looks good, I’m having a hard … Read More

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26 Oct 2016

An Update on Sasha

Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other. — Louis J. Camuti  [Click to Tweet this quote]   … Read More

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2 Sep 2015

Life Lesson #5 From Camel’s Hump

  #5    Sometimes, it doesn’t matter which way we go.       So, I’m trekking down the path, carefully placing my foot so I don’t twist my ankle on the rocks, and taking care to keep an eye on … Read More

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6 May 2015

Where Shall I Go From Here?

        You know the feeling.  Options, choices, opportunities — too many sometimes. I felt it when we first came back from our Peace Corps years.  Laundry detergents at the supermarket were the worst, as any RPCV will tell you. … Read More

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LEAPFROG: How to hold a civil conversation in an uncivil era

“Janet’s LEAPFROG describes— in an accessible and fun way— the nuts and bolts of how to have a civil conversation…”

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At Home on the Kazakh Steppe:A Peace Corps Memoir

Praise from Kirkus Review

“…she writes engagingly … a sharp-eyed journalist. A worthwhile read for anyone with an interest in humanitarian work.”

At Home on the Kazakh Steppe, A Peace Corps Memoir, by Janet Givens
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