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Tag Archives: news
Help, I forgot to ac-cen-tu-ate the positive!
I stand accused of having become too negative. Me, little Miss Glass-half-full. Me, who sang Bing Crosby’s song, Ac-cen-tu-ate the Positive, to my university’s former VP Finance, encouraging him to stop spending so much time dwelling on the negative side … Continue reading
Posted in Odds and Ends
Tagged blogging, control over your life, gratitude, happiness, impact on others, kindness, news, politics, positive attitude, serenity prayer, wolrd news
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Resetting the Optimism Button for 2017
Time for the Year in Review. This is the week in which every columnist reviews the past year from their perspective, be it sports, TV shows, movies, celebrity lives and deaths, or … dare I say it, politics. There are … Continue reading
Posted in Odds and Ends
Tagged 2016, 2017, compassion, Despairing, inspiration, kindness, Moving forward, New Year's resolutions, news, Optimism, Pessimism, politics
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Thoughts on the Newtown shootings
Tragedy casts a pall over other plans. The senselessness of current events defies understanding. I was going to write about something else today, but in the wake of the shooting of 26 people in Connecticut yesterday, mostly little kids, everything … Continue reading
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Tagged change, children, Connecticut, current events, discussion, guns, news, Newtown, opportunity, politicians, politics, public, shootings, voters
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