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For the past year and a half, I have been a regular contributor at the recovery website The Second Road. I learned today that The Second Road will cease operations this month. The content will remain available but unfortunately the [...]
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As someone who lives with the reality of sexually compulsive behavior every day, I have to admit, articles like last month's Forbes magazine piece on whether or not sex addiction exists make me roll my eyes. It's always the same thing, "The idea of [...]
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Earlier this year, I read an article about technology that would allow us to record and store every moment of our lives. Imagine: our whole lives stored in a single searchable archive. We could settle those arguments with the boss by replaying what was [...]
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A few weeks ago, as I was poking around the Internet, I saw an ad that caught my eye. "Turn your blog into a book!" it announced. "Hm," I thought, "Come to think of it, I could print my blog and bind it. That might [...]
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Whew! I sat down today, with both kids finally healthy and off at school, with my husband healthy and off at work, with a house covered in a summer of chaos (which I am steadfastly ignoring) and thought, "I'll write about my daughter's huge tantrum. [...]
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When I first started blogging, a little over two years ago, "God" was not part of my spirituality. The word still smacked of the old school God of my youth: that wrathful, angry-looking old white guy on the Sistine Chapel roof. I was hated that image of [...]
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A little less than a year ago, I moved my blog to its own URL, and when I did so, I had the opportunity to reread many of my old posts as I updated broken links (still not all fixed, by the way). As I did, [...]
On my morning walk,
a thousand perfect phrases
flooded through my head.
I dashed in the door,
sat down at the computer
and found they're all gone.
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I started my day off on Tuesday by reading Lisa Belkin's reflections on what she's learned in the eighteen years of parenting since her son's birth. I thought, "Wow, that was lovely and touching and resonated with me in so many ways, I can't wait to [...]
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I was recently reading a book on Buddhism and the Twelve Steps that describes a meditation exercise in which you label your thoughts: "desire," "aversion," "thinking." The author mentioned one woman who was surprised at how much of her thinking centered on desire: I want, I [...]
