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A Fat Person’s Lament About Another Unfortunate Doctor Visit

My doctor usually has doctor assistant trainees. The last two times, they’ve been young guys. The most recent one wasn’t as bad as the one before him. In fact, he was a gem in comparison. Almost polite to a fault. But he did struggle to take my blood pressure, whichContinue Reading

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The Thing Everybody Gets Wrong About Cancer

Princess Catherine’s cancer diagnosis has me thinking again about something I’ve touched on before. Namely, that cancer doesn’t discriminate. It’s the worst kind of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion). It doesn’t care how rich, attractive, smart, or popular you are. Time and time again, it proves that. Yet, that’s theContinue Reading

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I must politely decline. I’m embracing JOMO this year.

“Forget FOMO. Embrace JOMO…” the headline of The Washington Post article started out in the News app on my iPhone. I knew what FOMO was. (Fear of Missing Out.) If there were a FOMO Anonymous meeting, Wayne would drag me to it. (Faithfully. Every week.) But what the heck wasContinue Reading

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Flying makes me humble. What about you?

On a recent flight home from San Francisco, I looked out the window at one point and was once again struck by a feeling I often have when flying: a total sense of humbleness. Soaring above the ground and seeing how small cities look, how small the ribbon of roadsContinue Reading

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No balls to scratch? Pfft! Try bleeding every month!

“Well, a woman’s not gonna be a good president. She’s got no balls to scratch.” That was a North Carolina Trump supporter’s reasoning for not picking Nikki Haley when NBC News and MSNBC Correspondent Shaquille Brewster pressed him about what he really thought about Haley. But the misogyny (and ignorance)Continue Reading

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What’s up with stoic and why am I suddenly seeing it everywhere?

Is “stoic” the new buzzword, or is it just a coincidence that I keep seeing it everywhere? Or is the Universe trying to tell me something? Like, “Pull up your big girl panties and get on with getting on, Court!” I thought I knew what stoic meant, but to beContinue Reading

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Writing Future Letters to Spirit: The Number One Lesson I Learned

I first got the idea to write Future Letters (in place of New Year Resolutions) after reading Sarah Ban Breathnach’s Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy back in 1999. I’ve been writing Future Letters ever since. Although, I have to admit, at first I thought it sounded aContinue Reading

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The Unsent Christmas Newsletter of 2023

Christmas 2023 marks the first year I haven’t sent a newsletter in two decades. Well, intentionally didn’t send one. A couple of years ago, I ordered photo greeting cards with a written update on them, but my order got lost, so no cards went out that year. But since 1999Continue Reading

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2023 in Review: Taking Stock of Discoveries and Joys

“What gets measured gets managed.” I heard that saying either at the end of last year or the year before, and it really resonated with me. Consequently, I approached 2023 differently than in years past. There were no resolutions. Although, that wasn’t out of the ordinary. I haven’t made anyContinue Reading

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I Write Like Stephen King (and have the badge to prove it)

This morning, I indulged in some fun and used the Coding Robots writing analyzer to analyze a snippet from the Manuscript That Shall Remain Nameless to see which author I write like. It concluded I write like Stephen King. Whenever I visit my friend Willow Croft’s blog, I see herContinue Reading

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