Sips, Snacks, and Healthy Hacks-A Nurse’s Blog
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do/with your one wild and precious life?” (Mary Oliver, The Summer Day) I’ve been on a Mary Oliver kick, especially since watching this documentary from PBS that popped up on YouTube. And I’m thinking about the prompt, if the salary was the same, what job would you…
Same Salary/Same Job/Same Life
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I’ve got way too many. Hobbies, that is. Here are a few: Bird-watching. Walking. Reading. Journaling. Junk journaling. (Different from the previous hobby!) Knitting. Attempting to grow plants. Drawing. Making collages. Baking (especially on Sundays.) Playing with stickers and washi tape. Shopping at the $ Tree. Music, and playing instruments. I’d say writing, but I…
Hobbies and Not-Hobbies
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I’m a David Foster Wallace fan. I haven’t finished this one though, and maybe it’s time to do so: With essays like “Big Red Son” and “Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think,” I ended up chuckling before I even got to page one. It was a book…
Unfinished… But Not Forgotten
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It’s that time of year again. The kids are getting ready for another school year and lots of adults (including yours truly) are getting ready to go back, too! Taking classes while working is a whole different ball-game. There isn’t one way to do it perfectly, but here are some tips that may help if…
Back-to-School, Working Adult Version
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The last movie that made me cry a little bit was Project Hail Mary. To be fair, it doesn’t take much for me to shed a couple tears when watching a movie! I don’t want to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen it though, so all I’ll say is that I really enjoyed it…
Moving Movies
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After being an adult for so long, it’s funny to look back and consider when I really felt like one. But I think it first hit me when I was a couple years into college and decided to stay at school over the summer, renting my own place, paying all my bills, getting my own…
Adulting 101
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Who to have for dinner? And what would I make??? I’d make lasagna and garlic bread. But then- who to have? The prompt didn’t specify whether they had to be dead or alive, so… Ernest Hemmingway pops into my head first and foremost, because it would be cool to hang out and chat about writing.…
Authors for Dinner
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In this day and age, I feel like schools are doing the best they can with the lessons they teach. I spent a lot of time homeschooling my kids and had a fair number of opinions about what should be taught in school, but I was also very much in favor of child-led learning with…
School Lessons
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Right now I don’t have any pets, but our family has had a few over the years. Did you grow up with dogs? We had one dog, an energetic chocolate lab who liked to run off, and as my mother was pregnant at the time, that didn’t fly and we had to get rid of…
Pets
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“Don’t be a worry wart” I used to hear this when I was little. As a child, I guess I was a worrier! I think I just stopped sharing about my concerns at a certain point. But that didn’t mean I didn’t worry. Worrying is a way for us to feel like we’re in control.…
Old Worries
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