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Profound? Maybe.
Part one Like many people, I reached a point in my life when I gave up on having any relationship with a Higher Power. I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but it was sometime during that 16-20 year age. I grew up Catholic, and went to nine years of Catholic school. I attended church…
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Limitless
Unlimited budget for 24 hours??? I’d buy tons of scrubs and compression socks and all the Brooks I wanted (especially those Chip & Dale sneakers, they are adorable! :P) Then I’d stock up on groceries. I’d book like, 10 trips for next year. Maybe 20. I’d order every book I wanted from my local book…
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Philosophers for Dinner
“Good evening, would you care for something to talk about?” There’s this line from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, where a couple is sitting down at dinner, and their waiter comes up and asks if they’d like something to talk about. They choose, from their menu of topics, to talk about the meaning of…
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Antidotes to Fear and Self-Doubt
I love the little acronyms they come up with in 12-step groups. And fear has a few of them: F– False E-Evidence A-Appearing R-Real Or: F: Face E: Everything A: And R: Recover or the more humorous: F– F**k E– Everything A– And R– Run! Fear has a way of creeping in sometimes. It can…
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Life (and what does it all mean anyway?)
Recently I read this adorable book called Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa. I loved it. I had seen the movie first, years ago, which is based on the book (I think it’s available currently on Prime). It is all about a man who owes someone money and so he is selling dorayaki to pay…
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Motivated
One of the best ways to keep motivated when learning a new skill is to have accountability. If I’m not accountable to someone, somewhere, at a specific time, it is hard for me to keep going. Here’s a few examples: Cello- if I’m not taking lessons I don’t practice. I was taking lessons for a…
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Overrated
I love classics. They are a lot meatier than many modern books out there. They’ve got substance. They stick with you. Give you something to think about. There’s classics I’ve read years ago that I still think about from time to time. Some of my favorite authors are the Brontes and Thomas Hardy. I really…
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Space/Invaders Part II
I’ve had my share of obsessions in the 50-some odd years I’ve been around, only a couple of which were actually damaging. One of the more benign was my obsession with video games, in particular the 10 months or so when I couldn’t go to bed unless I played through certain scenes of Star Wars…
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Unsolved Mysteries…
I was a 70s/80s kid… This meant movies like E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Wars (like, the first one… in the theater). Old Doctor Who episodes. Star Trek. I loved it. My dad was a bit of a sci-fi fan. I think he passed it on to me. So…
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Things Your Oncology Nurse Says Daily-Outpatient Edition!
“Let’s check your labs.” We check labs a lot! We want to make sure your “counts” are good for chemo. Or, we might check them if you come in for a triage visit to make sure that your hemoglobin, white blood cells, and platelets are okay. Sometimes, the problem is electrolytes like potassium, calcium, or…
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