Author: Lorna Tedder
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What It Is Wednesday: Am I Happy? Content?
I’m still mulling over what I’m taking as a compliment, though I’m not sure if it was meant that way. I seldom am shown how other people view me, unless it’s the rumor mill and that’s never ever flattering and rarely carries more than a kernel of truth. But it was interesting hearing a different…
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Relationship Guideline: When You Start Making Excuses
It’s been years now, but I still remember the first time I made excuses for a significant other. I sat at my best friend’s kitchen table during a long lunch hour I’d taken in the middle of the work week. My kids were little—in kindergarten and elementary school—so weekday lunches were the only time my…
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What It Is Wednesday: Nervous Wiccans
Question for my pagan/heathen/shaman/hippie/woo-woo friends in particular as well as their friends: Over the last couple of years, I’ve found myself expanding on my spirituality, in some cases doubling back to a different understanding of early beliefs, never changing or recanting or neglecting any of the things I’ve learned through personal unconfirmed gnosis which you…
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Ghosting: Why Some Romantic Partners Disappear without Warning
My writer friend, Christine Ashworth, called to my attention something I found to be all too common in the dating world. I didn’t realize it had a name and I really didn’t realize that anyone else endured it besides me. Christine pointed out an article about Sean Penn and Charlize Theron that explained the relationship…
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What It Is Wednesday: Lack of Touch
When was the last time you touched or were touched? Gonna get close to the bone here, but I know my single female friends will appreciate it. There’s an article making the rounds called “Being Single Is Hard.” It’s about touch and how the lack of touch is the hardest part of being single. It’s…
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Psychic Authors, Climate Change, and Presidential Elections
Some people have asked if I’m a visionary, and others have asked if I’m psychic. I’m not sure there’s that much of a difference, but I’ve always been able to see trends stretching out into the future. I know this is true of other writers who are extremely intuitive, but often these prophetic visions of…
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What It Is Wednesday: Is Texting Destroying Us?
I’m on of those people who uses my smart phone for just about everything except making phone calls. It’s been that way ever since the first additional features on our phones beyond calling: texting, instant messaging, Facebook messenger, various apps, even email. I’m not sure how it started but non-spoken communications have become my…
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Does Love Come Late in the Season?
Mother Nature is toying with me, reminding me that even when it seems too late in Life’s seasons for some things, some things have a way of blooming unexpectedly, long past when I thought they would. And some things I thought were lost…return. As I write this, we are into the last week of…
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What It Is Wednesday: Dating Sucks
“Dating sucks!” The guy in front of me stopped and yelled at both everyone and no one in particular as I was starting my sunrise miles. The woman with him–a relative, maybe a sister?–shushed him but agreed. They’d stopped right in front of me, and I couldn’t help but eavesdrop as I passed them. “It’s…
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Werewolves and a Negative State of Mind
State of mind has a lot to do with our communications and how we perceive life. Something that puts us in a negative state of mind or feeling of being under attack can make the simplest subsequent communication with a stranger seem equally negative or malevolent. Like most people, I need reminders of this, and…