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06/23/2013 15:28
I wasn’t looking for companionship when Slimy, a neglected hobo of a goldfish, along with his companion, one-eyed Big Fish, swam my way….in a tank Marc confiscated from his son’s house. “I told him that since he couldn’t keep the tank clean, we would take care of them,” he explained.
That...
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06/19/2013 16:49
While socializing in my daughter’s kitchen during a recent Chicago visit, I got a warm fuzzy feeling all over as I realized I was talkin’ with my peeps in “our” own language.
I never realized how “Chicago” Chicagoans sound, and how peculiar our vocal inflections are to native...
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06/12/2013 14:41
“The snakes and arrows a child is heir to/Are enough to leave a thousand cuts.” ~ Rush, Armor & Sword, from Snakes and Arrows Album
Here at NCALC, Inc. we like to think of ourselves as behavioral experts, adept at reading between the lines, so to speak, so that all persons we know...
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06/04/2013 12:44
While I have been in Chicago this week, my husband...
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05/27/2013 10:51
BHAC is a variation of BHAG, with is business speak for Big Hairy Audacious Goal. In my case, I created a Big Hairy Audacious Change for myself when I changed my literal landscape from there to here. Hard to believe it’s been about three years since my arrival from Chicago to Chico. As Marc likes...
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05/16/2013 11:52
At a recent workshop I learned that thanks to the line of business I'm in, I can expect to die earlier than my peers in kinder, gentler professions.
Buzzkill alert. It just so happens that two distant professional colleagues recently died in their forties, each wonderful women with...
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05/11/2013 20:34
I was talking to a friend today about the ups and downs of parenthood and asked her a hypothetical question I’d once mauled to death in my own head: “If, at the moment of your child’s birth, you had the option to sign a no-grief contract at no cost to anyone, granting your precious baby...
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04/29/2013 11:59
When I was a kid, Leave it to Beaver was just funny; as an adult I discern the eternal insights. Having spent most of a nostalgic Sunday laying around watching a Beaver Marathon--these old shows being the bridge between young and older me, and therefore a link between Chico me and...
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04/17/2013 17:28
I don’t know how well people who knew me in junior high school remember the overweight kid with wild hair, a bad complexion, and virtually no friends that was the kid I was. Actually, she still resides close by, and I have her to thank for teaching me things she did – as I apologize for...
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04/10/2013 13:19
People sometimes ask what faith I am, or what kind of faith I have. I’ve often fallen back on the “I’m spiritual, but not religious” response that I’ve now heard so often it’s became all but useless for me as any sort of fair explanation. I especially regret not trying to find a better way to...
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