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Everyday Stories, Lived

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  • Imagination and career shift

    Sometimes I wonder how, as children, you can see things that are not there. I’d like to think that all children, regardless of family income, are imaginative one way or another. Take, for example, my niece handed me a chunk of orange puzzle pieces one afternoon. She told me that it was a pizza with… Read more

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  • How to spot fake news

    Being on social media these days, you can’t help but notice unproductive ideas just floating around. Because they are up for grabs, people who never thought about thinking through whatever they consume from the media becomes vulnerable to come up with absurd and unproductive reasoning. The author of Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America… Read more

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  • Isolation, alienation

    Going home in the time of COVID 19 is challenging. How so? You are required to obey rules that are sometimes absent in so many places that need them the most. Say an airport, for example. Depends on what airport you depart from and arrive in: either of them, both, or none of them see… Read more

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  • People always affect people even in subtle ways

    As we prepared for our flight home, there seemed to be many things that need to be addressed. And in the time of COVID-19, it means that we need to process documents and do swab tests to travel inter-island. But it doesn’t end there. We also needed to exchange goodbyes to people we’ll be leaving… Read more

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  • Causes of stress

    Feeling stressed lately? There are times I feel stressed, too, and I wanted to know how to handle stress. But what is stress exactly? Stress results when demand is greater than your ability to address it. From the course I took on building personal resilience, these are what causes stress: 1. Time demands. Time stressors… Read more

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  • The irascible person

    We’ve all met that person in one form or another. They are the kind of person who is quickly aroused to anger. One thing I can think about is that a mature person is not an irascible person. And that’s what I’ve got to say today. Read more

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  • Practice works because…

    Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices. Stop Stealing Dreams Read more

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