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To Seek Morsels of Comfort Amid Adult Anxiety and Stress
I’m educated, highly intelligent, oft-well-motivated and talented, but underemployed in a dead-end job. I seek and my steady work history evinces that I deserve a better job. In what business headlines call a frozen market, job networking isn’t helping my search for a better job. Amid anxiety, it’s vital to find and note some lightness…
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A One-Time Runner Takes a Pass on Global Running Day
I won’t celebrate Global Running Day on June 4th. Around April of 2022 I decided that I needed to stop running for my knee’s sake. After a fast four-mile run my right knee took too long to recover. I’d need that joint for the foreseeable future. In the early 2020s, running was a pillar of…
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Improv Experiences Can Help Adults to Expand their Comfort Zones, Increase Joy
“Whose Line Is It Anyway” is a hoot to watch! It’s fun. And wits are working for comedy. How long can you watch and be enthrall with “Whose Line” before you want to do it yourself? A lot of it is highly intelligent, fun, sometimes edgy and fast-paced. It’s hard be get bored. I want…
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How Do You Hang that “Shingle” of Independent Speechwriter?
In mid-May, a Georgia-based independent speechwriter, Henrietta Williams, offered a webinar about working in the “lucrative” realm of speechwriting work. Learning of this via the Professional Speechwriters Association (PSA) and persistently curious and ambitious about using my writing talents, I registered for this webinar about the lucrative world of independent speechwriting. Since I learned about…
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Great Essay-Writing Fodder Eludes me!
I want to write 500-word essays each week – But this is difficult. I look at Npr.org CNN.com and other news sources, and sources for cultural observances like the Black History Calendar at BlackMarket.com. My life is too homebody and introverted to provide me with fodder for great cogent weekly essays. So I often rely…
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Beholdened to neither Church nor Pope, We Note Francis, Nonetheless
Pope Francis’ death surprised most of the world. It happened overnight into Monday. On Sunday we had just seen Pope Francis in a wheelchair. He was ill, but looked all right. He looked like he was healing; this, especially after double pneumonia. Between Easter Sunday and Monday morning something happened. Waking on Monday morning and…
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Let’s Stop Taking Librarians For-Granted
Librarians are guides to knowledge and the ways to exploit materials. According to a http://www.Today.com calendar of national observances, April 16th marked National Librarian Day. According to InfoDocket.com, 1.32 billion people used their public libraries, and 55% of Americans are registered users. So, with the U.S. population of 330 million, more than 165 million people…
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NPR/Ipsos poll: “Most Americans want to read books. We just don’t”
The NPR story about “Most Americans want to read books. We just don’t” piqued my curiosity. The poll found a gap between the desire to and acting on a desire to read. Maybe it’s incidental that National Library Week runs from April 6 through the 12th? Implicit in the Ipsos poll, it seems to put…
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Fitness Influencers’ Nonsense Vs. Fitness for Men and Realities of Aging
Many men want to resemble “Men’s Health” magazine over models; young men, especially. Unfortunately, just like famous models won “the genetic lottery,” few men, even if they had paid for trainers and the ideal foods, are hired as models. To look Adonis-like may have perks. But how much depth is there if the effort rivals…
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“Good Hair Day” Can Mean Something Disparate among Black Americans.
The American cultural observation of Good Hair Day on March 26th, began in 2020, exists so that women, persistently judged by their appearance, can have a break from that ingrained oft-toxic cultural pressure. When you look at the list of national cultural observances for March at www.Today.com, you will find this observance is mentioned. Some…
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