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Like Father

Like Father by: Wayne and TamaraDirect Answers - Column for the week of July 5, 2004I was married for 21 years to a man who enjoyed strip clubs, drinking, and his buddies. These things became important to him after we married, and part of his jo...

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Review In 29 Steps Plus One

Review In 29 Steps Plus One by: Gianfranco Cazzaro - I just finished to read a book. A story for kids (yes, I like them), interesting, told with participation and sometimes irony. Which is the problem, then? Simple, if the author have been rea...

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Where Are The Punctuation Points In Your Life?

Where Are The Punctuation Points In Your Life? by: David Bates We live in a very busy age with many pressures and demands on our time. Often in workplaces there is a culture of busyness, where it's important to be seen to be busy and stress...

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Hippo Rage

o Rage by: David Leonhardt a.k.a. The Happy Guy (text of a mini-keynote speech by David Leonhardt,, a.k.a. The Happy Guy which brought the house down in Gatineau, Quebec, April 21, 2002) Has anybody here ever been stuck in traffic for a frustra...

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Holistic Junction's Featured School of the Week Northern Arizona Massage Therapy Institute NAMTI

This week, Holistic Junction is proud to present Northern Arizona Massage Therapy Institute (NAMTI) as the featured school of the week. At Northern Arizona Massage Therapy Institute, it is their mission "To provide an exceptional education, encompass...

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Reflect Upon Your Harvest at Thanksgiving

I don't know about you, but at this time of year I always think of work. It’s harvest time. Because of the years I spent in the MidWest, I was around people who were harvesting produce, bringing in the crop for the year. The quirks of nature n...

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A Mayonnaise Jar and Two Cups of Coffee

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember this story about a mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee...A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When t...

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Give Up Giving and Start Being Generous

Most of us grow up strongly influenced by the concept that 'It is better to give than to receive'. For many of us, it becomes more than a nice sentiment, but a way of being. We take it to heart so much that we interpret it literally, and th...

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1 Phrase You Didn't Hear At School - But Should Have!

‘Je suis un chat’.That means ‘I am a cat’ in French.I was taught that when I was, ooh, let’s see, maybe 11 years old?I studied French until I was 18, in fact I was quite good at it.Despite the fact that my teacher said I had one of the wors...

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Ridin’ The Fence

I was asked recently to write a resource for women for assertiveness. After agreeing, I began to research a lot of difference sources to get a good feel for the subject, and it has been very interesting to me! You don’t really hear the word “asse...

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