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Pay Attention!
There’s a veritable smorgasbord of observation just waiting for you!
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On Being Busy
Ever since StoryCorps contacted me and told me they wanted to include my 2009 interview in their anthology Callings, and oh, by the way, NPR wants to feature you in Morning Edition, and Parade Magazine wants to do a piece on you as well, and O Magazine would like to speak with you, and wouldn’t…
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Human Signposts
As you walk your path in life, you’ll come across many intersections and forks in the road, and you’ll have to make decisions. Sometimes you won’t even know you’re at a crossroad until you look back and realize you’ve negotiated your way through it, or discover to your horror that you’ve gotten off track and…
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The Birthday Chair
It’s funny sometimes how you entirely forget things that used to loom so large in your life. When I was very small, my mother used to have this delightful tradition on our birthdays. She would allow us to sit at the head of the table in a tall backed chair which she had decorated with…
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Really?
The other day I was driving home from work and I spotted a house I’d never seen before. I must have driven past it a thousand times, and yet I’d never noticed it. That kind of rattled me. I mean, this is an entire HOUSE. How do you overlook a house? And if I’ve missed…