Your Health Matters
by Thomas W. Shinder, M.D.
The Art Of Healing
When you're not feeling well, you think about going to the doctor.
But which doctor? Many of us who do not have a regular physician may ask someone else if they know a good
doctor. But how do you tell a good doctor from a mediocre one?
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The Learning Curve
by Skip Blaeser
Stitches In Time
Is there something you've always wanted to learn
to do? Bake bread? Make a quilt? Build a bookshelf?
Don't assume that you've got to wait for the next adult
education class to learn.
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There You Are!
by Barbara Hampton
As I sat alone the night I found out I was going to be
a grandmother, I recognized the Blanket I had put on
when Kathryn died. The same layer that had protected me
from ever feeling the pain had also been covering my joy.
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Healing Ourselves: A Formal Feeling
by B. Gleed
We had just come over from the hospital where MJ had just
undergone a strangely silent ultrasound. Fear confirmed is
an odd thing. Emily Dickinson had it right when she wrote,
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes".
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COMPUTEREASE
by Thomas W. Shinder, M.D.
Why Does Your Computer Get Sick?
Your programs have been working well and then one day,
BANG, suddenly they don't work anymore. Your computer
is sick. What do you do?
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ALIVE Online: Mistaken Identities
by Debra Littlejohn Shinder
Defining Ourselves In Cyberspace
Who among us has never yearned, at least momentarily,
to be someone other than who we are? Cyberspace offers
many opportunities to explore other personas, but with
this new freedom also comes responsibility.
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The Affirmative Action Dollhouse
by Rob Hill
Jane and I make a habit of turning playtime into
learning time for our two-year-old daughter Emalee
whenever we can. Shopping for Christmas presents
has not just been a matter of simply buying toys
for a kid; it was our annual social engineering project.
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Modern Martyrs
by Christine L. Reed
In the rat race that we live in, it often seems
that culture has become a luxury rather than an
important basic ingredient of life. Art for its
own sake is, sadly, appreciated only by artists.
Why is this so and how can we change it?
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