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Clutter Cleaning

Posted by: dateacher on: December 31, 2008

Not gutter cleaning – clutter cleaning.  How do we accumulate so much stuff?  And why are we so attached to our stuff? 
This is another new year’s resolution I have made often and not kept – really cleaning out my house.  I have a friend who said after she and her husband moved from the home [...]

Rethinking the Resolution

Posted by: dateacher on: December 30, 2008

Third in a series…
In a previous post in this series, I talked about preparing for the new year and how I do not make resolutions because I eventually end up breaking them.  Instead, I focus on what went right and try to continue on that path…while trying to change what went wrong.  Sometimes this means [...]

All those diet ads…

Posted by: dateacher on: December 29, 2008

Second in the series….
UGH!  It’s only December 29 and I am already SICK & TIRED of all the diet ads that hound us on TV the few days before New Year’s.   Slim Fast, Jenny Craig, and Nutrisystem…oh my! 
I understand the inability to resist certain foods.  Really I do…at one point in my life I tipped [...]

JFK

Posted by: dateacher on: November 22, 2008

45 years ago today the 35th President of the United States was assassinated.  I remember learning about this in high school history.  Every year we’re reminded of the day Kennedy was shot.  My parents remember where they were, what they were doing when this happened.  Both were at Elon College (NC) – my dad was [...]