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The Cure for Comparison is the Team Score

26 Mar

I’m going to get woo woo with you on this one. I just ask that you be open. Did you hear about the anti-bullying ad that IKEA did a couple years ago, where they exposed two identical plants to different...
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What’s with the Bison, Christina?

6 Feb

I have a thing for bison. They represent to me the peace I feel in my favorite place … or at least was able to feel during my first two visits, October 2003 and September 2004. Now, even in October,...
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Regarding Lady Gaga’s Words on Mental Health and Fibromyalgia

10 Jan

I nearly threw my phone across the room, what she said irked me so much. (But I’m not really a thrower and the thing is expensive … and essential!) It was a roller coaster of opinion that began with me...
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8 Ideas to Amplify Healing

13 Sep

I finally turned a corner towards improvement again, and this time without steroids. As I tapered off my course of prednisone, the pain of my herniated disc became worse every day. Things I’d started to get back were lost again,...
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Refresh Your Hardships with a “First Day of School”

30 Aug

Remember the thrill of the first day of school? That new beginning? I won’t assume this was a positive experience for everyone, but for a lot of us, it was an exciting time. A clean slate, a fresh start. I...
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When I Have Zero Bandwidth for Other People’s Problems

22 Aug

So your boss is being a jerk again. You had a fight with your girlfriend. Your new alternator is going to cost $300. Sorry, but today, I don’t care. I just can’t. Not because *I’m* a jerk. But because I...
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Save the Best for Now

14 Jun

On my epic road trip with my furry best friend, I’ve arrived at the presumed goal destination: my friends’ house in San Dimas, California. Last night, on the way to Andrew’s mother’s house for taco night, I was telling Andrew...
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Bloated in Bruges

4 Apr

Every time I’m in a terrible place or moment that I’m desperate to pass, I remind myself of my self-talk driving across Nebraska one time. I had that raging churn and hellfire of diarrhea on a long drive, and Nebraska...
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What’s better than saying “hello”? This….

11 Dec

A Khmer woman expressing arkoun on top of Phimeanakas Temple, of the Temples of Angkor in Cambodia

I try not to be the American jerk who shows up to another country and doesn’t bother to learn a spec of their language. So when I took my most recent international birthday adventure, I had ambitious plans to brush...
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