Category: Handle with Care 365 2020
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Sick & tired of being sick & tired
If you follow Care’s page, you’ll know me as J, as her other half, Jan, the guy in all the pics and the guy she blogs about frequently. Most recently, you’ll have been seeing posts about my ongoing battle with diverticulitis. I have a lengthy and painful history with it. I’ve likened it to feeling…
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A Message to My Daughter
by: Breanna Bedor My dearest Grace: A few days ago I walked by you with a basket full of laundry and you didn’t notice me at first. I silently watched as you wrapped a very long tape measure around your little waist. At first I was shocked – what would possess you to want to…
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We are our own worst critic.
When I screw up at work, it’s the emotional equivalent of falling down the stairs in a crowded room. Everyone (in my case) hears me screw it up. Say it wrong. Fumble through. How honest should I get? It was Day I of a brand new job. One I’d worked hard for the last four…
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don’t worry. we’re all a little messed up.
The buzz word is “triggered”. When used with the ‘ed’, it’s become a slander; a mocking reference to someone’s mental state. “Triggered”. But triggers (with that emotional ‘s’) are a cruel, impending set of circumstances that leads you back to where you once were, and changes the trajectory of your day, or night. Or weekend. We’re all…
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Thanks for the laughs …
Over the last two years, I’ve been working alongside a couple of radio legends. A combined 100 years of radio experience between the two of them, I have been the luckiest gal to only be five years deep into my professional career & have these two as colleagues. As Big G & Matty ride out…
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but actually, how busy are you?
Someone I used to know died last night. And on Facebook, someone else posted that their friend had also died. A friend they’d known since kindergarten. They’d recently reconnected, as they did from time to time. Someone else messaged and said they’d also dealt with tragedy. Why didn’t I still know this person? What else…
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It’s called Facebook … a place where we can see your Face
In our world divided, what seems to have unified us is our ability to wage wars behind screens. On keyboards. Remember Justine Sacco? The woman who tweeted an extremely racist “joke”, and before her flight landed in Africa, her entire world was demolished? Here’s an additional nine more folks who were removed from their places…
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‘Ohana’ means family …
DNA, not so much. ‘Ohana’, explained Lilo in Lilo & Stitch, means ‘family, and family means no one gets left behind, or forgotten.’ My children and I live by this mantra. We are a family. DNA does not necessarily dictate who is, and who isn’t family. Not to us, anyway. I have a sister of…
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is it raining where you are?
Everyone is dealing with it. During the throes of February, when we’re just about freaking done with the grimness of winter, the lack of sunshine, and the rumour of spring, we’re done. And we’re all dealing with it. Far be it for me to dismiss that this has been a fairly mild winter in comparison…
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You’re the one responsible for changing
But you might think – why can’t they? It doesn’t matter. And it doesn’t make a lick of difference. You’re in control of facilitating change. And redirecting the narrative. Only you have the power to break what’s cyclical, or what’s been held as normal. Only you are responsible for changing. I’ve been parenting now for…
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