Congratulations were in order. May 27, 2021, marked my 365th consecutive day of meditating. A whole year! I was proud of myself for finally “possessing” the ever elusive consistent practice I’d spent years chasing, and I could feel its many benefits manifesting in my everyday life. I’d become calmer, more centered and detached, although not…
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Perfect Posture
Stack the books. Penmanship. Recipes. Atlases. Etiquette. Square your shoulders. Pull them back. Put your chin up. Straighten the spine. That stomach: suck it in. That chest: push it out. Smile. Hold still. Let me put the books on your head. Walk. Turn around. Face me. Smile. Walk. Sit in the chair. Cross your legs…
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In 2007, my husband and I decided to go to the city to see a movie. This is not something we do often, but we really wanted to see Balls of Fury, mainly for pointers on how to become ping pong ninjas. The reason we needed that important knowledge was because we’d just bought ourselves…
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I was my family’s first child, first daughter, first grandchild. Every day my mother put a spoonful of Karo Syrup in my bottles of milk to keep my system moving and filled them with sugar water in between. My grandfather topped them off with red Kool-Aid and took me for long rides in his pickup truck. They doted…
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