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Because you shouldn’t be idle when you’re marooned on a desert island — For a no-nonsense list of seven books that your teachers would be proud of, you might try this article by Simon Dillon: Seven Books I’d Take to a Desert Island: The Dillon Empire Edition After a truly excruciating selection process, here are my literary essentials.medium.com For a list that’s much too silly, read on. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy “trilogy” by Douglas Adams (I’d take all five books and the short, since…

Quit hitting the snooze button and pull up a chair — . . . or a mat, or a standing desk . . . Hello, and welcome to the reminder that you keep putting off. Check-in time! How are you doing? Really? It’s not that I don’t believe you, but I think most of us say, “fine” or “okay” out of…

A vexing problem in today’s day and age — Except for, perhaps, very slow, methodical, and diligent thinkers, most people have problems with concentration now and then. Our culture encourages it. In the digital age, information comes at us from all directions and nearly at the speed of light. I remember hearing one student describe this experience as “flipping…

A little-talked-about problem, or weapon — Sometimes referred to as a “bad laugh” in theater, when an audience laughs self-consciously it may be showing the members feel nervous. But what, specifically, gets the audience to react this way? What’s the secret formula? Here is a partial list: When a taboo topic is mentioned in a dangerous way My friend wrote a scathing play on Christmas which had the elves treated in…

Customer service is vital for more than Retail work — Dr. Dee Allred is my Primary Care Physician, and if I can at all help it, I’ll never switch. She sees all my family, and has for years. We love her — as in, have actual feelings of love, appreciation, and adoration for her. Let me tell you why. She…

You can’t ignore your story. Not really. — It’s taken me a long time to come to this conclusion. Like everyone else on the planet, I want to want to be able to wish things away. But I stand by this: what you see is what you get in life. Can people be fooled? Lied to? Misled? Oh…

We don’t just simply forget . . . — We all have our different lines of battle. What may be a non-issue for you could be a daily struggle for me. Consider these common (and not-so-common) things that we put off: Putting on sunscreen Flossing Taking our medications Going to the store before running out of things and having to make due Returning books in a timely fashion Taking…