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Real Life – Seeking Joy
Three to four times a year, a celestial optical illusion occurs wherein the planet Mercury appears to move backwards in the sky.
I know this...
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Real Life – Be Prepared
I hadn’t been in an ambulance since I got food poisoning when I was 23.
That highly embarrassing episode had unfolded at work, yet it...
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Real Life – It’s the Little Things
Although I do not make New Year’s resolutions, I do employ an on-going assessment of how I’m feeling, and respond accordingly.
Many people kick off...
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Real Life – The Middle Way
My siblings describe me as a planner, but I am also a home organizing enthusiast.
Our family of origin was very regimented, so this proclivity...
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Real Life – Life Is but a Dream
A very jovial Target employee directed me today to a shopper’s dream, a check-out line that was going to open just when I needed...
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Real Life – Playing Possum
This spring, I had been warned that I had a raccoon issue, but channeling the myth of the ostrich, I apparently stuck my head...
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Real Life – Road Trip
Although the last three years of blistering heat and poor air quality have been the exception, summer in Chicagoland is not something to escape.
I...
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Real Life – A Good Pair of Shoes
When I worked for a dating service for executives and professionals in the 1980’s, the owner, Bud Chilson, opined that you could tell a...
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Real Life – Education Is Power
When my parents had their first child, they were rostered on door-to-door sales lists, and found themselves to be the proud owners of The...
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Real Life – A Simple Summer
In the summers when parents simply told their kids to go out and play, with no particular plan for where they’d be or what...