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Valerie Brooks - Gobsmacked: Confessions of a Working Writer: Interview with Diane Prokop, Book Reviewer - Part I
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Valerie Brooks - Gobsmacked: Confessions of a Working Writer. Interview with Diane Prokop, Book Reviewer - Part I. Years ago, Diane Prokop and I met while working in similar positions at a community college, but lost track of each other until just recently, when books brought us back together. We vowed to have coffee or lunch at the 2011 Wordstock Festival. Tell us a little about yourself. Diane with Max and Jazz. What made you decide to become a book reviewer? How did you get started? Diane at her desk.
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My Mother, Myself | Crossing the Line
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Learning to fly over the mainstream. Skip to primary content. My Mother, Myself. April 8, 2013. She doesn’t want to move, wants to stay in her city and in familiar surroundings, and hasn’t felt ready to move into a retirement community. Now, she doesn’t have a choice. Mom My favorite photo. I want to fix it. To accept the limitations of aging is difficult for me. I, too, have already experienced some of them. I’m not able to climb up and down a ladder all day painting, i have to go to bed e...8220;The gr...
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Crossing the Line | Learning to fly over the mainstream | Page 2
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Learning to fly over the mainstream. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newer posts →. So the last will be first and the first will be last. September 21, 2011. Past and truthfully never really understood the relevance for me until this Sunday. I Crossed the Line embracing a new understanding of an important parable for me to learn and to act upon. Or are you envious because I am generous? So the last will be first, and the first will be last. Taking a cue from Jesus, we can learn a lot&...
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Julie Farrar: So You Say You Want a Resolution?
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Traveling Through. . .the world, the second half of my life, and my own mind. Thursday, January 5, 2012. So You Say You Want a Resolution? And I hate it. I believe I fall into that group of people who never have succeeded in keeping a single one – unless it’s one like “I really resolve to return to that restaurant in Dijon that advertises French fries made in duck fat and eat a plate of those suckers” or “I resolve to branch out from my beloved French menthe chocolat. New Year’s weekend – the...8217;s cr...
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Bringing along OCD . . . : Showing my scrupulosity
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Sunday, February 19, 2012. I’ve been reading a record of my scrupulosity OCD. I recently dug out journals that I kept when I was in high school. One covers the period from June 28, 1978 to Dec. 31, 1979. I used the other one more for poetry and stories. That one runs from Dec. 22, 1978 to July 4, 1981. I was hoping to find some insight into how I was coping with OCD at the time, and what my ideas about life were. Do you know the writing advice, “show, don’t tell”? And, yes, my doubt and reassurance were ...
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Bringing along OCD . . . : How I use "Brain Lock" to fight my OCD
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012. How I use "Brain Lock" to fight my OCD. I’ve turned off the shower, but I want to push on the water turn-off again to make sure it’s off. I’ve turned off the light in the laundry area, but I want to turn around and check and make sure it’s off. I’ve turned off the ceiling fan, but I want to check one more time to make sure the blades aren’t moving anymore. Are those blades moving? The role of “Brain Lock”. In fighting OCD: Relabel, reattribute, refocus and revalue. Is to do somethi...
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Bringing along OCD . . . : Running like a cheetah
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Monday, April 6, 2015. Running like a cheetah. 8220;You were running through the store like a cheetah,” Larry told me. We laughed, and I said he was exaggerating, but I actually would have liked to be able to run like a cheetah on Saturday. We had to go to the local big box store. I hate going to the big box store. I don’t like shopping, and I don’t like being in crowds, and the big box store includes both. When I take the self-test. One of the things that bothered me about taking the town job—one ...
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Bringing along OCD . . . : Counting: one, two, three
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Monday, November 21, 2011. Counting: one, two, three. I think counting was my first manifestation of OCD. I practiced it mostly as a child. It was only as an adult that I recognized it as OCD. As a child, I thought I was being quite creative at keeping my mind busy while I waited somewhere. I did a lot of waiting when I was a little girl. One of my brothers was sick a lot, and I spent a lot of time in hospital waiting rooms and doctors’ offices. And it seems to be a practice that I still sometimes fall b...
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Bringing along OCD . . . : May 2015
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Sunday, May 17, 2015. A lesson I have to keep learning. Abbey on her stool under the window. We got some upsetting news about Abbey this past week. She was set to have her spay done on Tuesday. I dropped her off at the vet’s office on the way to work. Both her white cell count and her red cell count were lower than normal. I feel so bad for not getting the sample into the vet’s sooner. When the vet called me about her blood work, she said she didn’t think it was time to worry (easier said than done!
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Bringing along OCD . . . : My medication story
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Friday, May 25, 2012. Http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:42-aspetti di vita quotidiana, medicine,Taccuino Sanitatis, .jpg. The first medication I took for depression and obsessive compulsive disorder was Anafranil. This was in early 1990, right after the FDA approved the drug for use in treating OCD. My psychiatrist told me it was the first drug approved for OCD specifically. Since Anafranil is a tricyclic antidepressant, it would work on my depression too. Janet at the blog ocdtalk. Let me preface my sto...
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