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Life’s Maze
Since arriving home from Florida my days have been busy catching up in the garden trashing expired crops, harvesting new crops, and doing lots of weeding. While I was away I continued my job search and like years past the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bachelor's degree, Blogging, Business and Economy, depression, economics, Economy, Employment, Florida, Garden, Home, Job hunting, Job Search, Labour economics, Master's degree, Mental Health, New York, unemployment
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Where’s the Recovery?
Discrimination is a difficult subject to write about. “Maggie’s” plight of a frustrated woman, needed to be told, The Day Maggie Combs-Wilson Lost Her Sanity (Or Came To Her Senses) « JannaTWrites’s Blog, but the place of women in our society … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Credit card debt, depression, economics, Education, Employment, Home, Homeless, Housing Crisis, Labour economics, Money, Recession, Single-parent, Social Issues, Society, unemployment, USA
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Understanding Emotions
I am studying the science of emotional life. I plan to relate what I learn adding scientific perspective to the writing of my memoir. As I begin to interpret Joseph LeDoux’s, The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life I immediately … Continue reading
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Tagged depression, Emotion, Health, Learning, Memoir, Mental Health, Relationships
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Protest, Survival, or Blessing?
Putting Peanut the Dog out this morning required rolling up my pajamas, zipping up my boots, and putting on my coat. I was relieved to find the end of her chain hooked up above the snow. I am so done … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Country living, depression, Economy, God, Hope, Mental Health, Pheasant, Presidents Day, Shopping, Snow, unemployment, winter
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Effective Communication
Although I can write concisely and get my message across, in intimate relationships where conversation is required everything goes to shit. You would think I could organize my thoughts, plan a compare and contrast, or devise an argument and talk … Continue reading
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Tagged Children and Youth, Communication, depression, Family, Health, Language, Life, Parenting Young Adults, Partners, Relationships
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Keeping Perspective
Writing has been difficult this week with Matthew home. His temporary work assignment with the agency has concluded and if he’s not talking to me he’s talking to Peanut the dog which is just as distracting. But to be fair, … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn, Crooked Beauty, CUNY Events, depression, Economy, Family, Friends, Growth, Mental Health, New York City, New York City College of Technology, NewYork, The Arts, unemployment
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Funk and the Other “F” Word
A “Funk” I say after exploring my state of being, searching my vocabulary for the word to define. Having never used this word before with caution, I looked it up before proceeding, not wanting to sound like an ass. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Articulation, Children, Death, depression, Funk, Grief, Language, Words
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A Syllabus for This Writer
My girl is packed and gone back to campus this morning. As another semester begins I see her off as I see off the whole student body of which I am no longer a part. It leaves me feeling … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Walker, Arts, Baby Boomers, Color Purple, depression, Education, Healthcare, Jobs, virginiawoolf, Writers Resources
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Writing to Find Solutions
I’m trying to keep busy and mind my own business. Some people might feel I have all the right to butt in. I’m worried by his idleness and his lack of direction. He seems to be waiting out the job … Continue reading
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Tagged depression, Economy, New York, Relationships, Sled, Snow, solutions, unemployment
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