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Practice

Whenever we do something over and over, we are practicing that movement or behavior. We are training ourselves to continue doing it, and to get better at it. In many

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Finding Myself, Once Again

Last week I visited my daughter, her husband, and my three grandchildren in Texas. I am the kind of person (“Two” on the Enneagram) who integrates into the situation at

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Procrastination

It’s tax season, a time which is often fraught with procrastination. Many of us have trouble with procrastination. We procrastinate when the action at hand has some expected negative impact

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Trust in Myself

Last week we made a large purchase: a new piano.  It’s hard to choose a piano.  I found the process daunting.  I have been playing for 15 years as an

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Non-Attachment to Outcome

My husband’s Aunt Rose became our great Buddhist teacher. Aunt Rose was 84 when I met her. She had never married, and lived in a studio apartment in New York

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Hidden Parents

What does it mean to be a hidden mother/father? We can physically hide from our children by leaving, working too many hours, through illness or taking vacations without the children,

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When I was Stood Up

I made an appointment to have lunch with a person I didn’t know; it was a business meeting with someone who might become a new client. I did have reason

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Romantic Myths

I recently read a piece by Scott Kalechstein <http://www.scottsongs.com/> from 2007, “The Journey of Relationship Going From Here to Maturity.”   Let’s focus on three of his “Romantic Bubbles that must

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The Last Time

I had lunch with a friend the other day.  Her husband had died about four months ago.  As we were talking, she made a suggestion to me, for how to

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Placing Blame

We had a house guest once who did not treat our house as I wanted him to.  He crossed my personal boundaries with his behavior.  I got mad, but said

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