Category: life1
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Death diaries
Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out. Kurt Cobain I was sitting in a hospital waiting room. My friend, who I’ve known for over 35 years, had an appointment and she was nervous about going alone. As we people watched and clock watched, we started discussing our…
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What the…..?!
Mistakes are the price of an interesting life Sophia Loren Today I’d like to discuss…..wrong orders. I have been laughing so much at people’s recollections of when they ordered the wrong thing intending to order something else. I have done this frequently. When I first did an online food shop…
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Enough is enough
“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” —Rumi, ancient poet Today’s blog is about some conversations I’ve had recently. The words ‘Enough’ and ‘Stop’ seemed to be recurring topics of conversations…. Are you a people pleaser? Does other people’s opinions worry you? Or,…
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Please don’t let me be misunderstood….
Please don’t let me be misunderstood….Part 1 Have you ever been misunderstood? Have you ever had to “fight your corner” to friends and family who know you well but who just have a certain perception of you? Do you feel frustrated or upset? I’ve had two specific conversations this past…
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The Big Smoke
I recently had to complete an exercise as part of my writing course. After imagining there was a fire in my house and thinking about what I would grab, after my son and my cat I would grab this……… It’s probably quite wrong to keep your father in a box,…
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Insomnia
“Hello darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again.” ― Paul Simon 2am. 3am. 4.30am. 6am already. You know that feeling don’t you? Laying in bed, watching the shadows of occasional night time traffic sliding and glowing across your ceiling like a Hitchcock film. The tension heavy in…
