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From Where I Sit: Downhill and up

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Thursday, January 9, 2014. After nearly six months of frenzied travel, I’ve been home for a spell. It's a good damn thing, too, because 18 trips between May and December — four of them to the West Coast and Honolulu — took a toll I didn't expect. The physical piece wasn’t hard for me to get my head around. I'm no spring chicken and travel is hard — dragging my life around in a roller board, living at the mercy of the airline gods, jostling about for overhead bin space, nodding off in fits...I’m 48&...

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From Where I Sit: Look right... and left

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Sunday, January 19, 2014. Look right. and left. Took my first work trip of the year this week. A genius bit of scheduling brought me to Buffalo in mid-January. The weather was better than one should expect to find in Buffalo in January. It was cold, sure. And we had a light dusting of snow one morning. But mostly it was crisp and sunny — my favorite kind of weather. A couple of the stories were heart-wrenching, involving broken relationships and severed family ties. The conversation wasn’t maud...I had f...

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From Where I Sit: February 2012

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Saturday, February 11, 2012. For I have sinned. That father and his video. You know the one. His kid writes nasty things about her parents on Facebook. Her dad gets his knickers in a twist and videos himself, with a cigarette in his hand and a chip on his shoulder, dressing down his immature, disrespectful teen-ager for all the world to see. Here are the takeaways:. 1 When someone does something that makes you angry, reacting right away and in anger is best. The biggest shock to me? I was a bitch of a te...

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From Where I Sit: January 2013

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Friday, January 11, 2013. This week, I came face to face with my inner child. She spent much of her childhood hungry. For acknowledgement, acceptance and love, sure. But also just hungry. I learned early on that my body wasn’t my own and food wasn’t my friend. I was an active, stocky, muscular child. My mother was anxious and well-intentioned, and she equated thin with happy. Out of the question. I wasn’t allowed snacks. We rarely had treats. Most of my meals were laced with guilt. 8220;It won't hurt you...

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From Where I Sit: Fall down, go boom

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Thursday, October 9, 2014. Fall down, go boom. Is adorable. A baby elephant tries desperately to climb out of hole. He almost makes it before tumbling over backward. Right away, his mother and her sisters rush over to help him up, butting him with their heads until he’s upright again. The headline: “Baby elephant falls and mother’s reaction is the definition of good parenting”. If that’s true, then I suck. Kids fall. That’s what they do — both literally and figuratively. It’s the child’s job ...Kids who ...

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From Where I Sit: Snap out of it?

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Wednesday, August 13, 2014. Snap out of it? Aight, let’s go over this again. Depression is an illness. A clinically diagnosed illness. Like heart disease, gout, diabetes, lymphoma, arthritis and Parkinson’s. It’s a disease of the brain, the most important organ in the human body. (Don’t argue with me. When your brain no longer works, they turn your heart off. When your heart shuts down, they work like hell to get it going again, so your brain gets what it needs to survive.). Regardless, I say: Enough.

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From Where I Sit: December 2012

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Thursday, December 27, 2012. We’ve never met. I’m just a fan of dooce.com. Well, not just a fan. A serious fan. Oh, and a blogger. A small-time blogger who writes because I can’t help myself and aspires to be to my readers what you are to me: The perfect example of what it means to struggle every single day to be good and right and fair and true. I haven’t written to you before today because, well, what do you need with another fan letter? But after reading yesterday’s post. I’m proud of you. Not that my...

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From Where I Sit: October 2011

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Friday, October 7, 2011. Words to live by. A Zen master and his student were walking by a river. A prostitute was there and needed to be carried over the river. The Zen master picked her up and carried her across the river and then put her down. Then the master and student kept walking. A few hours later the student was so agitated he finally had to ask, “Master, how could you touch and help that prostitute! That’s against what we believe in! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The deal around here.

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From Where I Sit: October 2014

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Thursday, October 9, 2014. Fall down, go boom. Is adorable. A baby elephant tries desperately to climb out of hole. He almost makes it before tumbling over backward. Right away, his mother and her sisters rush over to help him up, butting him with their heads until he’s upright again. The headline: “Baby elephant falls and mother’s reaction is the definition of good parenting”. If that’s true, then I suck. Kids fall. That’s what they do — both literally and figuratively. It’s the child’s job ...Kids who ...

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From Where I Sit: September 2012

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Thursday, September 27, 2012. Start spreading the news. Here I sit, 27 floors above Midtown Manhattan, listening to the magic and chaos below and wondering whether I’ll ever stop thinking about what might have been. I am strong and courageous. I am energized by new and different. I am good at what I love to do. That summer was filled with new experiences, and I grabbed every one of them by the throat. By the end, I was filled to the brim and completely spent. Monday, September 24, 2012. Kiss me, Kate.