Tag: gossip
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Minding Your Own Business: What Does It Matter?
The next time you find yourself getting all stirred up over something someone else is doing, ask yourself, “What does it matter? How does it affect MY life?” For example? How about “for examples”? Here are a few conversations I’ve noted in the last week: Two discussions of how people focus on the commercialism of…
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The Beam in Your Eye–and Not the Good Kind
I cannot stand gossip. No, wait. It’s more than that. It’s discussion of other people at a level that I never even considered gossip before but now, it irritates me to the point of wanting to throw people out restaurant windows. I think this is what that Bible verse means about noticing the speck of…
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Why Hair Stylists Make Me Nervous
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Rising. I wasn’t always nervous around hair stylists. And I’ve never been nervous about a bad cut or color because it grows out and it’s fixable. Most hair mistakes are easily fixable but some things aren’t, and that’s why I’ve sometimes been uncomfortable around them. Yes,…
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Whose Word Do You Take?
Then the colleague asks if I know a mutual acquaintance in Georgia, though she already knows the answer. She is testing me, based on what she’s been told. She’s a little surprised, she tells me, when I answer so positively. She expected, based on what she’s heard over Thanksgiving, that I’d say something negative. My…
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I Curse Your Name: the Blackest of Magicks
I have a house full of company this summer, but it’s oh-so-pleasant and has settled into a nice pattern of incense wafting upward from the countertop, couscous on the stove, wine in my glass, Brian playing the piano or guitar, Amy singing, Robert drumming on the table over sushi, Aislinn fetching strawberry-chocolate shakes, Shannon playing…
