Category Archives: stress

You’re only as old as you look, and if you smoke you look older

Posted on January 28, 2015 by jottingjoan

As if we needed any more proof to encourage us to avoid the destructiveness of smoking, a friend on Facebook just linked me to a website comparing identical twins: One twin smoked for a number of years, and the other … Continue reading →

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Klutzy day

Posted on September 4, 2014 by jottingjoan

“Having spilled my coffee all over my desk today, sprayed myself with my coke yesterday and stumbled over my own feet so that I dropped and broke my favorite coffee mug…. I have declared myself stressed and klutzy. It’s time … Continue reading →

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Study until it hurts then keep on until it is a joy

Posted on July 10, 2014 by jottingjoan

The perfect child does not exist, so why is it always a surprise when we discover that our wonderful children have failed? I don’t know, but the day it happened to my daughter she called to ventilate her shock. Her … Continue reading →

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