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Last week, a part on my notebook computer broke. The machine still runs but I can’t cart it around anymore. It’s now stationary in my library and I’m online less frequently as a result. It’s inconvenient to trot to the back of the house. When it was right there, it was easy to check email [...]

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I’ve heard that you can tell how good a party was by how long it takes to recover from it. The same thing can be said about writers’ conferences. By that measure, this year’s Sleuthfest was a tremendous success, because I’ve been home for three days and I’m still not fully caught up on my [...]

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That was a heck of a game last night. I didn’t really care who would win, and I haven’t followed football in years, so I hadn’t intended to do more than turn it on for background noise. At first, I thought it was going to be another dull blowout, but once New Orleans came back [...]

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The big freeze killed a lot of our tropical plants and trees in spite of our best efforts to protect them. The devastation is very depressing, so it’s been hard to maintain a positive outlook. But “thinking positive” doesn’t mean “always happy,” and I haven’t let the setbacks derail my daily effort.
I’m getting better at [...]

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In 2009, I relapsed into an old habit of expecting bad things to happen, and focusing on them when they did. I want to change that and build a habit of focusing on the positive. Depending on what research you read, it takes from 21 to 37 daily repetitions of a behavior to make it [...]

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