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Jacky
12 yrs ago
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Hi, folks. I've been going through my archives lately and came across some IMs from Bookcrossing. Impulsive of me but I decided to check out the site. It's been a couple of years and things are looking good here thoug…
Jacky
14 yrs ago
that you seem to think studying childhood trauma is not relevant. Maybe it's not. Some think alcoholism is an illness. Could be it's a physical illness. Do they teach you to take care of yourself physically - diet, e…
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Do you live an interesting life? Would others think that you do?
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Wierd but interesting.
Jacky
14 yrs ago
I have no idea if others would agree. It might seem limited to them because I don't have much money and I hardly travel at all any more. It's surprising what you can make of a life like this though. I have met an incr…
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Where, why and how did political correctness begin?
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Re: I have no idea what happened at the corner of State and Madison
Jacky
14 yrs ago
Oh. I'm becoming literal in my old age!
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Where, why and how did political correctness begin?
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I have no idea what happened at the corner of State and Madison
Jacky
14 yrs ago
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Declaration of Independance? No, that was Boston or maybe Philadelphia.
Wondering in Ontario, Canada
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Alice Munro reveals she's had cancer.
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It doesn't surprise me that she has been private
Jacky
14 yrs ago
about her health problems until now. She is of Southern Ontario stock and they don't tend to broadcast their troubles.
Perhaps her health is why she considered ending her writing career a while ago. But now she seem…
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The world needs GM food, says the Royal Society
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Re: GM often makes growers slaves to agribusiness
Jacky
14 yrs ago
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There is one thing I have heard of that might be detrimental. Apparently, this method of farming does have a bad affect on the biodiversity of the crops. That is the sort of thing that causes problems like the Irish Po…
Jacky
14 yrs ago
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The GM food seems to be happening, no matter what people and certain scientists think. Whether it's good or not will be apparent in the long term. Will the health affects or other affects be good or bad? Only one way …
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what song was topping the charts when you were born?
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I think it might have been something by Perry Como, back in 1951
Jacky
14 yrs ago
I remember seeing that somewhere.
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How many writers do we have here?
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I'm a poet and diarist and I am trying to get back into writing fiction
Jacky
14 yrs ago
From time to time, I do some editing on my children's book MS, which I drafted 10 years ago. I have won a couple of contests and even made a bit of money over the years.
I really have no favourite writer and go for lo…
Jacky
14 yrs ago
and before that a book by Marcia Muller with a lawyer-sleuth Sharon MacCone. But I am also planning on rereading some more literary stuff -- Alice Munro.
Jacky
14 yrs ago
I'll keep it in mind.
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Why do I hate my husband's fancy work parties so much?
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Sounds like you don't overdo it on the alcohol
Jacky
14 yrs ago
When I was doing office work, I used to get sloshed at parties and ended up really embarrassing myself. I didn't feel I fit in with the typical office crowd but drinking too much is not the way to feel better about the …
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I think my new neighbor must have OCD, serious not joking around.
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Re: I'd hate to be your neighbour.
Jacky
14 yrs ago
I have had some annoying neighbours myself! This person you talk about could be good company during the day!
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I think my new neighbor must have OCD, serious not joking around.
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It must be very annoying actually, hearing it in the middle of the night
Jacky
14 yrs ago
You're a tolerant soul. I know someone who had the kind where things just piled up, especially newspapers. I had never been to her place so didn't realize it though she was always talking about sorting things out. But…
Jacky
14 yrs ago
I have to say eating can help, though if you eat too much it can make you feel worse. Let's see, walking, working, talking on the phone. I have recently starting bellydance and, though I haven't been really depressed l…
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David Letterman, do you really care?
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Re: Nope, its between him and his wife to sort out.
Jacky
14 yrs ago
I felt bad for her when he said that about the "navigation lady" not speaking to him and how he would have his work cut out for him, with his wife. It must be so humiliating to have details of the relationship on public…
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David Letterman, do you really care?
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Re: Now might be a good time to point out that, while it might have been
Jacky
14 yrs ago
Turned the proverbial blind eye?
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David Letterman, do you really care?
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Re: And he'd been with her for 23 years before they married.
Jacky
14 yrs ago
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However, there are relationships where one is committed and the other isn't!
Jacky
14 yrs ago
I do enjoy his show but I am not surpised by this latest development. But at least, he came clean, not like some U.S. presidents I could mention.
Jacky
14 yrs ago
Only two moves when I was living with my parents as a child. Then, after that, it gets harder to count. When I was in 20s, I moved on a average of every six months. So say 15 times during that period. Then, after tha…
Jacky
14 yrs ago
in Toronto. Yesterday, it got too warm. It has been a wierd summer.
Jacky
14 yrs ago
You've just reminded me that, if I opt for family Thanksgiving, I will have three small great nephews to deal with! And then there's the grown ups.
Jacky
14 yrs ago
Congrats on what you've accomplished so far, and good luck with what is to come.
Jacky
14 yrs ago
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Sorry to be so mundane. $1000 would go nicely towards refurbishing my wardrobe and pay for some visits to the vet for my two cats.
