I have a deadline of October 31st this year for completing the final edits to my memoir. I've got a lot left to do and now Halloween is hovering over me like a taunting ghost, as if writing down my deepest thoughts and memories isn't spooky enough. Fortunately, I have fallen madly in love with … Continue reading Minimal Monday
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My very first memory of sugar is of being about three and a half years old and finding an open jar of butterscotch sauce in my family’s refrigerator. Where was the lid? What luck! I don’t recall any other time of helping myself to the fridge at such a young age, but on this day, … Continue reading Minimal Monday
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It is amazing to me how our attitude about time can actually change our experience of time. In his book The Big Leap, psychologist and author Gay Hendricks writes that “Time feels like an ever-present entity, hovering in the background of our lives.” But to expand time, he explains, we simply need to bring our … Continue reading Minimal Monday
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Several years ago, I worked at a college as an academic coach. My students needed assistance with organizing their workload, breaking down large assignments into logical small steps, making lists and recording important dates in their academic agendas. Sometimes I would help them with assignments such as writing papers, but mostly my job was to … Continue reading Minimal Monday