Finishing Second: Things Could Be Worse
British rower Annie Vernon recently wrote a book in which she described the agony of her team finishing second in the Beijing Olympics. She wanted and expected a gold medal and ended up with silver. Her story reminds me of the brother of one of my high school...
Avoiding “Shoulds”
Is your life filled with shoulds? As in: I should have gone to work out, you should have come when you said you would, life should be easier than it is. Many people continually think with shoulds. The problem is that this thought ignores reality and makes us feel bad....
Learning from Experience
Ten years ago I went with my three brothers to a Mexican restaurant in a small town near where we had lived as children. I ordered a tostada, a stiff, toasted tortilla with beans, cheese, and other ingredients on top. I added hot sauce, and the tostada looked...
Words We Dislike
I read that many people dislike these words: moist, bulbous, fester, mucous, vomit. I did a Facebook-pal survey of disliked words and found a huge variety, including discharge, phlegm, and unpack [as in unpack an idea]. Some of the folks I asked dislike filler terms...
Strange Things
I watched a Netflix series called Stranger Things. It features a mysterious underground monster, nefarious government officials, and appealing teens. I had my own strange experience in a park in an Armidale (NSW) park a few weeks ago. I went to the park after work to...
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