Author: mickyw
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How to make friends with anxiety
A few years ago, I had this nagging feeling, I’m not sure where it came from. It was a whisper. “What if?”. I hadn’t really had this feeling before. I didn’t know how to identify it, so I ignored it, and just went on with the general day to day of what I consider an…
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Pink is a girls color?
“Pink is a girls color”. “Where did you get that shirt, the women’s section?” “Why are your nails painted?” “Are your ears pierced?” The pink and blue thing has an interesting history. It wasn’t until between 1950 and 1990 that pink was declared a “girl” color. That is relatively recent, and as you can see…
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Burning Man through these 52 year old’s eyes
Re-entry has begun. Re-entry is the term that is used to describe what participants at Burning Man feel when they have to return to their daily lives. For those that haven’t spent time at Burning man by choice or lack of good timing and luck, this is similar to the feeling of coming off of…
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Using the past, without becoming the past
One of the more regular fears admitted to me by friends that are parents worrying about becoming their parents. I know I have said that out loud to myself on countless occasions. Because as I look back, I judge decisions that were made by my parents during their time, from my own time. How many…