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Curiosity Re-Wires Your Brain for Change
Curiosity as a key ingredient to having an open mind, with a willingness to embrace change.
Fake Future Fracas Averted
Pardon this humble brag as entry to a blog post: My husband and I have pro-level social skills. Part of this expertise comes from our careers. His as a sales and marketing manager and mine as a speech-language pathologist. We can read body language, note tone of...
The 30-second rule
Fearing of public speaking is often cited as fear numero uno when such lists are made - and what's more public that social interaction topped by talk. It might be true that everyone alive anxious about making small talk with other peeps... Small talk doesn't make me...
Silence is Golden
Silence is very good for you. Noise, not so much. Stress, insomnia, heart disease—all possible adverse results of the world's screaming, relentless, insidious, invasive. The cacophony of opinions, endless chaos and catastrophes - both man- and Mother Nature-made - as...
Easy-Peasy Life
As a well-funded retiree - that is, reliant neither on Social Security nor the whims of stocks -- I have an easy-peasy life. A life that flows, like canoeing down a river, one mile leads to the next, Tuesday follows Monday, obey the rules, portage around dams, don’t...
Life as a Miracle: Inclusion in a Select Anthology
My monthly contribution to the Insecure Writers Support Group – and, guess what! Today I’m a co-host!
Personality Particulars
What’s in a personality? Confidence, kindness, irritability, impulsiveness, moxie and spunk — hundreds of traits may come to mind. But psychologists believe it can actually be boiled down to just five: openness to new experiences, conscientiousness, extroversion,...
“I’m fine…”
“I’m fine” is sometimes a mask, a default response to people’s inquiry, “How are you?”
Everyday Essentials Lost
A blog post about lost – never to be found – household items
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