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Learning to be Human

Friday, August 26, 2011

[A prose poem to Little Boy, originally written May 19, 2011] I love these days when you are young and we dance to the songs you like You want me to shake the music shaker – you hold one while I hold the other We dance to “Lithium Flower”, the ending theme of Ghost in [...]

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Write!

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Write! Not because you feel like to, or should. Write because you have no option but to write. Write because this is how you breathe. Write because this is how you make sense of yourself and the world. Write because this is how you love. And if you have ever fallen in love… if you [...]

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Confetti Days

Sunday, August 7, 2011

I am sitting in the dining room at the table cutting square pieces of colored construction paper for Little Boy to glue onto a bigger sheet of paper. I, the adult, capable of analysis, soon figure out that I can stack 3 pieces of paper and with each “Snip! Snip!” generate 3 rectangular pieces for [...]

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Don’t Pretend to be Outgoing when You’re an Introvert, Instead, Focus on Why You Connect

Friday, July 29, 2011

Are you an introvert? I am. I’m energized by intense moments of solitude, not by exuberance of crowds. Once upon a time I felt bad that I was “shy”. Other people (parents!) even labeled me “arrogant” as a child because I appeared too aloof. When my mother told me this, I was maybe 5 or [...]

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How to Break Self-Sabotage Behaviors

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Some of you live in a perpetual soap opera: you get so close to your goal that you can practically taste it on your tongue. Then, as if by clockwork, you do something that rips that possibility from underneath your feet. You are, once again, confronted by the fruits of your self-sabotaging behaviors. If you [...]

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