You Can Run, but You Can't Hide
Photo: Joydeep Sengupta While crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a wonderfully relaxing cruise, my husband and I spent six straight days “off the grid,” disconnected from the internet and our normal digital...
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Taking Time to Recharge
When you’re constantly giving of yourself to your employer, your significant other, your family, and various other responsibilities, it can be overwhelming. Sometimes you need some me time to restore...
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People at Heart
Now that our kids have all reached adulthood, my husband and I finally took our first trip to Europe. Before we became parents, he used to say, “We could go to Europe, or we could have kids.” The trip...
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Be Careful, Little Brain, What You Think
Photo: AdjaFong I sent a text message to a friend and didn’t get a response. Was she mad at me? A week went by before I sent another, with the same result. Surely she had something against me. Did I...
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Making Time for Life's Surprises
Life is full of seeming interruptions that come along and derail us from our plans. An illness or a surgery with a long recovery can quickly take us off course. An unexpected job loss or the death...
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An Eye-Opening Experience
Photo: AberdeenDiversity Empathy can be hard to come by unless you experience firsthand what others do. When it comes to blindness and visual impairment, that’s nearly impossible short of an accident...
