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78Not Being Chased--From Couch to Half Marathon in 3 Months
I've always had a crush on running. I buy the shoes, the outfits, and the magazines. I download the applications--logmyrun, for instance. I stare, open-mouthed, at runners with the type of reverence and admiration fit for super-humans in their...
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77The Exodus (part 2)
The plagues. When I was little, my mother would play a dramatic interpretation of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt on tape, mostly so my brother and I would stop talking. We loved this, and it sounded so real to me, it was easy to believe. The...
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76Child Protective Services
Most know me to be a zealous protector of children, but in my travels in nursing, when I heard of a woman who had decided to name her unborn child "California," I realized, that I was not doing enough. In obstetrics, I work with both Social Workers,...
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69Spiderman--The Musical (God Help Us All)
"Shrewd is the one that has seen the calamity and proceeds to conceal himself..." (Proverbs 22:3 NWT) I need to build a case here. Growing up, Spiderman was easily my favorite superhero as a kid and remained so until this day. And when I lived...
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67Tricks of the Dominatrix
I really don't know enough about the subject to truly make the call, but I'm pretty sure I met a dominatrix when I was 22 and working as an extern at Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital in Baltimore. Her name was Miss Ursula, and I could not make that...
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72What A Girl Wants (part-1)
I was on my way to work on Saturday, and I was listening to MC Lyte, a female rapper from the 90's, brag to the world about how she's "gotta what, yo? gotta have a ruff neck!" Now, I don't listen to much rap, but what she was getting at was that...
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75Ten Things I've Learned From Facebook
I was booking it through an airport headed east to start a summer in Europe with more luggage than a person should ever have, and a man, in his generosity, offered me a luggage cart for which he had paid. In an act of blinding idiocy, I declined. ...
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80Ten Things Women Love About Men
I love a good man. I have had good men as friends, boyfriends, and I was reared by one. As it turns out, the good women in my life, both married and single, tend to love good men also, and we started discussing some of the things we love about...
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78The Graveyard Shift Diet--How to Get to Your Grave Faster
"SJ! Are you gonna wash your vitamins down with a coke? Really?"--asks my co-worker at whatever o-clock in the morning, during the graveyard shift at the hospital. Expressionless, I open my vitamin pack. "I'd wash them down with bacon juice. But...
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83Adult ADD--"You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid, or Crazy?"
This hub is a commentary on the subject of Adult ADD and the book, "You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy," by Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo. I'm partial to this book on the subject of ADD, because it's written by women and does a wonderful job...
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