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Why I don’t care if you like me
So here’s the thing about me: I really don’t care if you like me. I actually really and truly don’t. It’s not that I don’t want you to like to me. I actually want to be liked. I want you to think I’m friendly and helpful and funny and occasionally smart and mostly honest and…
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Seasons of love … and writing
Birds and flowers of the four seasons, part of the paintings on room partitions in the abbot’s quarters (hōjō) of Jukō-in of Daitoku-ji, Kyoto, Japan. Ink on paper. This picture shows four of 16 panels on fusuma (sliding doors) in the in the ritual room. The paintings have been designated as National Treasure of Japan…
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Me, Full-Length: A remedial shopper gets a makeover (part one)
Confession time. Lean in real close, would you? I lack the shopping gene. I never know what’s in style or what’s on sale or where to buy anything. I walk through stores with the same wide-eyed wonder that a third grader might have on a field trip to the Museum of Natural History. “Wow ……
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A Gentile does Rosh Hashanah
I’m bogarting Rosh Hashanah this year. OK, maybe I’m not stealing the entire holiday … but I’m hacking a little piece off just for myself. Yesterday I saw my Jewish friends wishing each other a Happy New Year on Facebook. They wrote about eating honey and wishing for a sweet new year. And I…
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Dear LinkedIn: You blew my cover
Dear LinkedIn, Somebody around here has a sense of humor. Is it you? Is it? Because I could swear that when I was using your mobile app the other day, I clicked a resounding “HELL TO THE NO” when you asked me if I wanted to send invitations to connect to my entire address book.…
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Ask Trish: What should I do about my haunted house?
Peeps: I didn’t post an Ask Trish last week. Sorry. Something was up with one of my kids. Kids come before the bloggity, you know? I think you’ll agree that this question was worth the wait. READER QUESTION: NOTE: Several identifying details have been deleted. I just linked to your blog from BlogHer and…