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Online Luggage and Fruit

Online Luggage and Fruit

19/12/2021
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Maya Angelou says you should never commit to anyone until you see how they handle lost luggage.  In the profile section of the online dating…

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Ghosts and Rogues

Ghosts and Rogues

12/12/2021
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In nature, all females mate. Not all males do, hence the term rogue bear or rogue elephant. Hold that thought while we talk about ghosts…

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Online Impressions

Online Impressions

05/12/2021
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Relationships, Writing

A few years after my Mother died, my Father had lunch with a widow he had known for years. He asked her if she ever…

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Encouragement and Puny Sorrows

Encouragement and Puny Sorrows

28/11/2021
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Perhaps it says something about me as a catch, but in response to last week’s post I did not receive even one suggestion for an…

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Online Dating? I dunno...

Online Dating? I dunno…

21/11/2021
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Relationships

Widowhood means you are single through circumstance, not through choice. Some refer to grief as a process that you must work through. I prefer to…

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I Was a Terrible Date

I Was a Terrible Date

14/11/2021
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Behaviour, Relationships

You can all lower your collective eyebrows, I am not dating. Although I have been considering the possibility. I waver somewhere in the no-man’s land…

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We Are Not Frogs

We Are Not Frogs

07/11/2021
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Behaviour, Life, Relationships

It takes a certain amount of discomfort to make changes. Last week I wrote about the frog staying in the increasingly hot pot of water….

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Comfort versus Discomfort

Comfort versus Discomfort

31/10/2021
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Behaviour, Relationships

Like the proverbial frog in the pot of increasingly hot water, sometimes we inure ourselves to growing levels of discomfort. It’s easy for most of…

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Transmogrifications

Transmogrifications

24/10/2021
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Life, Living Well

Calvin, of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes made good use of his transmogrifier — a cardboard box which had the power to transmogrify himself…

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Elbow to Elbow

Elbow to Elbow

17/10/2021
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Behaviour, Opinion

Handshakes used to be considered a very important part of introductions and business relationships. Years ago, I met a salesperson who told me his company…

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