Tag: life
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How death broke my family and Whatsapp put it back together
Death broke my family once. It all started when my grandfather had a stroke. He was the pillar holding up my dad’s side of the family. My dad has three brothers and four sisters. One of his sisters has five children. We’re a big family and it was only suitable that grandma and grandpa’s house…
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21 days
With the start of the new year, a lot of us are thinking, what we can do to better ourselves? If you’re one of these people, I’m betting you’ve heard it takes 21 days to form a habit. In 1960, a plastic surgeon named Maxwell Maltz published a book called Psycho-Cybernetics in which he noted…
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The ways in which I am like my father
Some people are afraid of becoming their parents. There have been times when this was true for me, like the first time I caught myself rationalizing like my mother or avoiding conflict like my father. But to quote one of my favorite books, The Sandman, “We do what we do, because of who we are.…
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What it feels like when you stop enjoying a relationship
She would make everything easier when she was around. She would make the hours go by so quickly. She could put a smile on my face at the drop of a hat. But when I was sad, she let me cry it out. She said the things I wanted to say but couldn’t. She touched…
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About life and driving, and which one needs better maps
When you’re on the road, you find you have a lot of time to think. You have a lot of time to think when you’re on a trail, too. You might even find that you have a lot of time to think when you’re taking the trash out. You don’t have as much time to…
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Why nice people freak me out
You’ve seen it happen. A couple buys the young parents at the table across from them dinner. The boss invites the young protege to lunch, pays and doesn’t even mention work once. That person on the metro who got the last seat let’s someone carrying bags take it. It happens all around us. But it’s never…
Jessica Puente 