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I have two cats, and they are endlessly entertaining. Since I live alone, they provide me with companionship, conversation and entertainment on a regular basis. I have two cats, because the one cat I originally had was getting bored and looking kind of depressed, so I got the other one as a playmate for [...]
That’s the advice a good friend gave me over 10 years ago, when we reconnected after about 25 years and started recounting the events that had happened in our lives during the intervening years. I’ve often thought about his words, and realized that they’re a fairly good mantra for living one’s life.
Being honest is important [...]
My aunts (my mother’s sisters) are an odd pair — one of them claims never to talk to the other one, and in the next sentence she’ll refer to a conversation they had recently. The same one says her sister never comes to visit, and then relates something her sister said the last time she [...]
According to Wikipedia, synergy is “the term used to describe a situation where different entities cooperate advantageously for a final outcome. Simply defined, it means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The essence of synergy is to value differences.”
Yesterday I observed two very different instances of synergy – one involving [...]
It’s funny how you can read someone’s blog and feel like you know them, even though you may not have exchanged more than a handful of words with them in their comments or in an e-mail. Lisa at Clusterfook was one of those people. Hers was the second blog I ever read, back when she [...]
Sometimes I wonder if my existence has made a difference to anyone else. Although I know intellectually that my life has made some impact on the lives of my friends, at least on a small scale, I wonder just how memorable I am. I wonder if my being here matters to anyone.
Since I don’t have children, [...]
I have been married and divorced three times in my life. That’s a fact, and I can’t change it. I’ve been divorced now for 11 years, and have pretty much settled into the idea that I’ll likely be on my own for the foreseeable future. Oh, I’ve had relationships — although most were extremely short. [...]
I’d like to introduce you to Lisa, a spunky woman with a husband and two little girls who I got to know through her blog, originally called the “Rock Bitch” and now “Clusterfook“. She’s a die-hard Rolling Stones fan, and back then I think she was a radio DJ. She had the sassy, funny, take-no-prisoners [...]
Last week, I had been thinking of a favorite penpal that I had lost touch with over a year ago. Imagine my surprise when yesterday I got an e-mail from him! It was confusing, though, because he was inviting me to join some dating site, and the last I had heard, he was married and [...]
