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Gardener. Former flack. Fluent in spin. I media scan, therefore I am. Mister Rogers/Mary Oliver stan. Born at 326 ppm. Old married broad. Mom. Dogs' person. Canadian. Ferenge. she/her #BlackLivesMatter #LFC #ElbowsUp
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No, I haven't. Thanks for suggesting!
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Therapy is a gift. It can allow us to take experiences that suck & grow from them so we understand ourselves better & treat the people we love better. To be more intentional in our lives.
I'm not trying to be Pollyanna. Just trying to say a difficult parent doesn't have to write our stories. 2/2
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Yup, I have, most of the time. Some days are harder of course. But, like Bruce here, therapy for the win!
I got lucky with some things. A very loving family early in life before things came off the rails in my teens. It means I have a secure attachment and a good foundation for insight. 1/2
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Yeah, that's it. I'm not exactly standing in front of the mirror flexing here. It's all the little but important ways I notice being stronger. (E.g. What a difference schlepping soil and mulch at the nursery in May 2025 vs May 2024 when I was just starting to devote real time to strength-training.)
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Weights or proofreading?
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*are* where it's at
Maybe in my 60s I'll get serious about proofreading my posts before hitting the blue button.
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Weights and stretching is where it's at as I age. I've done lots of cardio for decades but I got serious about weights a year ago, too. I was built like a Praying Mantis as a tween & teen so I'm never gonna *look* really strong. But I'm the strongest I've ever been and I just *feel* so much better.
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This is a great interview for Father's Day. About parenting. About being parented by someone who didn't do it well. About realizing you can't fix a parent. About making peace with it.
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She blames low uptake but was key to casting doubt on science and this vaccine and discouraging uptake. Unreal.
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That's quite something.
And I'm so conflicted. Empathy for an obvious challenge vs. her allegiance to a fascist.
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I really get it. I cancelled the NYT earlier this year (but in the interest of full disclosure, still have a subscription to The Athletic. Ball is life.)
I'm inching closer to cancelling. My conflict is the excellence of journalists there vs. editorial. It's tough to figure out the right in it all.
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I've subscribed since 2016. If not for individual journalists there now, I would have already cancelled. It sucks.
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The struggle is real...
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I hear ya. I think often introverts understand extroverts better than vice versa because the world is designed more for extroverts so we learn.
When I was younger, I felt badly bc some of my extroverted friends took it personally that I didn't want to go out 3 nights in a row. It's hard to explain.
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😂
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I've come to think of myself as a gregarious introvert. I love getting together with friends (in small groups) and can chat away with strangers, but I need long breaks on my own to recharge.
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I get it. In PR I had to basically perform extroversion. I had to be less on than you would have been, but even that was so tiring.
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That's one of the reasons I like this place and wanted to post that article. Lots of people get it. (Though I didn't know there was a term for it until recently!)
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Bookmarking this. It's important. It's just fundamental truth.
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A year ago, when your child was pitching you on one, did you picture yourself falling asleep on the couch with a dog?
(Dogs are magic.)
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It now looks like Mark Carney ran an all but Canada-is-not-for-sale-baseball-cap-election campaign. (He left his baseball cap at home.) It appears he used a sovereignty crisis as jet fuel for a campaign while concealing many of his policy plans -- and a more conservative ideology than we were told.
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No mosquitos yet. Got maybe a couple more weeks. Heh.
I do use repellent to garden in the evenings when they get bad.
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Thanks so much. It's actually the result of a mass die-off of boxwood due to a boxwood related pest that just arrived in Ontario a few years ago. I had to revamp the entire garden. @davidmordecai.com's crew did a wonderful job with all the heavy lifting and then I created a pollinators' garden. ❤️
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Working in my garden as the sun sets, dog by my side, is perfect happiness.