Year: 2023
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[ trump as a life hack ]
Energy is finite and attention spans are fleeting. Unfortunately, you need plenty of both to tackle unpleasant or tedious household chores and do them well. Cleaning the toilet, for instance, is an especially nasty task, requiring effort and lots of elbow grease. If you’re anything like me, you go heavy on the toilet cleaner,…
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[ live like you’re dying ]
Okay, is that the craziest, most short-sighted advice ever dispensed? Or could it be the smartest? There are lots of variations, of course: > Live each day as if it’s your last > Tomorrow may never come > Today is all we have And on and on. These melodramatic aphorisms are meant to wake us…
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[ word of the moment ]
I ♥️ language. In all its sweeping grandeur. Did you know some experts, but not all, estimate the English language includes more than a million words? Dictionaries, however, contain somewhere in the neighborhood of 200,000. Most adult native-speakers of English have a vocabulary somewhere in the 20,000 — 30,000 word range. Think about that. A…
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[ too old for compulsive ]
In a just world, OCD would be a young person’s disorder. They’re energetic and motivated, fully equipped to handle unrelenting coercion. I’m tired and trending toward dormant. Yesterday, however, I stirred myself just enough to knock the coffee pot off the counter. The one that came with the coffeemaker. A glass disco ball of a…
the whirly girl 