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What Your Junior High Health Textbook Forgot To Tell You About Self-Esteem
Remember those junior high health textbooks – the ones that covered all kinds of then-awkward bodily system stuff? And how there was always a chapter about “Emotions”? (Usually illustrated with six photos of the same face sporting different expressions.) In that chapter, there was usually a banal paragraph about Self-Esteem, which basically said: Self-Esteem is important. You should have some.…
Read MoreFix These 4 Unexpected Things For a Stress-Free (Or Close To It) Summer
So yesterday I’m standing in the hallway, early morning, still in PJ’s, with the phone pressed to my ear. Enduring a lengthy automated menu while trying to make an appointment with a new doctor. “If you are a NEW patient and would like to schedule an appointment, press SIX.” I beep the “6” button. A…
Read MoreThe Instant Christmas Fix For Personal Slumps In Business
“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called. – A.A. Milne…
Read MoreCome Tell Me About Yourself | De-Lurk Day 2014
What I love most about writing this blog is that I happen to have the best blog readers on the entire planet. If the Internet is a big city, full of glittering attractions alongside boring perfunctory necessities and weird subcultures, then I like to think of this blog as that favorite little bookstore-cafe. You know,…
Read MoreThe Nine Words That Should Not Appear On Your Blog. Anywhere.
Meet Angry Jenika: (Why yes, that is me wearing a shower cap covered in shaving cream. I have no explanation other than: Such things happen when you hang out with Kristen Kalp.) Not many people ever meet Angry Jenika – but you know what the quickest way to meet her is? To blog (or facebook,…
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