Changing Lanes Blog: Too Many Choices

Shoot me before I volunteer again!

My Six-Word Memoir.

Back in May, Susan posted a blog entitled My Six Word Memoir which was inspired by a funny piece she had heard on NPR. They were reporting on a project in which the editors of the storytelling magazine, SMITH, challenged its readers to write their life…
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What’s on Your Bucket List?

Life is a Buffet

Years ago, I started keeping a file in my desk where I saved clippings and notes of ideas for things I might do someday. All kinds of things. Some were just for fun, like taking fencing lessons at the local “Y”, or going to the…
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Are you Living Your Life on Autopilot?

These are the Glory Days

 My husband, Bill, and I have a weekly ritual. We fill up our respective plastic pill dispensers with the myriad of white, blue, red and yellow miracle drugs that keep our body chemistries in balance. Brilliant invention, that thingamajig—it not only keeps you organized pharmacologically,…
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