The Provisional New 7 Wonders of Nature: A Bucket List of Travel

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The New 7 Wonders of Nature have been tentatively announced after the first count of votes on 11/11/11, though the final 7 may differ once the votes are confirmed.  Being the Nature Girl that I…

Mid-Life Options: Where Do We Go from Here?

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NASA image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, was part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, a deep-sky study by several observatories to trace the evolution of galaxies. Life is wide open and full…

Having a Family Is Not an Excuse for “No”

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Photo by   Lorna Tedder, copyrighted.   One of my colleagues, when she was 8 months pregnant, was asked with great disdain why she would consider having a child and didn’t she know that having a…

Fulfilling Childhood Dreams

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After listening to Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture audiobook, I started thinking about my own childhood dreams and whether I’d achieved them.  Most, I have, but of course, I’m not stopping there.  I added to…