Tag: self care
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December Delights – Day 1
Like many people, I have a love/stress relationship with December. It can be such a wonderful, magical month (I’m a sucker for lights and good cheer) but it can also be a month of tension and anxiety (self-imposed pressure, mostly, but still . . .) That’s a shame, I think. December is a festival month…
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Roses and Notes
Being a “woman of a certain age” in the first part of the 21st century means that I have a unique set of skills, some of which seem hopelessly outdated. For example, in my shoulder-padded and spiral-perm-with-mousse high school days, I took “typing” class as opposed to “keyboarding.” Entire class periods were devoted to typing…
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Roses and Bread
Back in January, when I first embarked on my “year of roses,” I wrote about the labor slogan “Bread and Roses,” which was a rallying cry in the early part of the 20th century among working-class women for a living wage that permitted all workers – not just the “leisure class” – time to enjoy…