Monthly Archives: November 2017
In the days when I was raising my children and not working outside the home, I would sometimes bristle at calling myself a “homemaker.” It made a better title than “housewife” (which I couldn’t stand!), but didn’t seem to cover what I considered the extraordinariness of my job. Often I would correct people and insist that…..
Do you know people in your life who are forever qualifying requests with, “As long as it’s no trouble,” or “Don’t go to any special effort on my account”? Perhaps these “courtesies” work in our more formal social settings, but the person who delivers them even in a relaxed atmosphere among close friends or family can make us uncomfortable.
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When a character in the science fiction movie “The Matrix” needs to make a getaway in a helicopter, she downloads the knowledge of a pilot’s license into her brain and proceeds to take off in the chopper.
As preposterous as this sounds in real life, I wonder if sometimes we are…..