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Dear Lexis,
I’m in my first year of college and I don’t know what major I should work toward.
There are a lot of interesting things, but I feel that choosing one innately means …
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By Alexis Rae Baker
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12/20/21
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I know I’m a bit late with suggestions for holiday gifts for gardeners, but then, aren’t most of us running late on one thing or another this time of year? And anyway, some of my …
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By Jill Severn
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12/17/21
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Thank You …
Christmas is only a week and a half away so I’ve been thinking about all the things I have to be grateful for this past year.
First of all, I am grateful to God, …
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By Kathleen Anderson
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12/15/21
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Dear Lexis,
I've been working toward building a career as a public speaker, but as I get closer to success, I can't help but feel like a fraud.
Who am I to be teaching people when I'm still …
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By Alexis Rae Baker
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12/14/21
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This Thu., Dec. 16, from noon to 3 p.m., the community is invited to support the 13th annual United Way of Thurston County's (UWTC) Drive-Up Shelter Shower. According to the UWTC website, Shelter …
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By Mary Beth Harrington, CVA
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12/14/21
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Mike Dillon retired after many years of owning as many as six community newspapers in the Seattle area.
“Starting in the early 1990s, he writes “we had a columnist, Madeleine Wilde, …
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This past week has been one of the most frustrating of my time on this planet. Last Friday, my little 10-pound Shih Tzu, Bambi, started to have trouble walking. Her balance seemed off.
The next …
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This past Sunday, December 5th, was International Volunteer Day, (#IVD2021) a project of the United Nations Volunteers Programme (UNV) which, according to their website, “recognizes and …
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By Mary Beth Harrington
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12/7/21
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Dear Reader,
Last week was very unusual for my family and me. My husband and I participated in a seven-day workshop about embracing success. Then our entire family was diagnosed with COVID-19. …
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By Alexis Rae Baker
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12/6/21
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Robert Frost, in a poem called "Mending Wall," quotes his neighbor saying "Good fences make good neighbors." This quotation is widely accepted as wisdom.
But what is a good fence? Does a good …
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Well, we have survived Halloween and Thanksgiving. There are several other holidays to celebrate during this new month – Chanukah, Christmas and Kwanzaa to mention a few, followed by the …
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By Kathleen Anderson
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12/1/21
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Congratulations, you survived Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, (to my knowledge the Sunday following Thanksgiving does not have a designation except National French Toast Day), …
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By Mary Beth Harrington, CVA
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11/30/21
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Dear Readers,
I wanted to take some time today to introduce you to a concept that is new to me but one that I believe could be very powerful. Danny Stusser, the publisher [and interim editor] of …
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By Alexis Rae Baker
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11/29/21
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Sunday morning dawned late, cold and foggy. You couldn’t even describe sunrise as “getting light” because it really didn’t. It only got as far as dismal grey. It …
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Well, tomorrow is Thanksgiving. This holiday means a lot of things to me, not the least of which is my life will now begin to fly by until I wake up on New Year’s Day.
Today will be …
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By Kathleen Anderson
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11/24/21
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It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day mill. Go to work, pay bills, take care of chores around the house, rinse and repeat. It’s easy to forget that the whole reason we do these …
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By Mary Beth Harrington, CVA
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11/23/21
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Dear Lexis,
My wife and I have read some of your articles, and we've been trying to implement some of the techniques (meditation and kinesthetic reprogramming), but I've found that I've had …
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By Alexis Rae Baker
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11/22/21
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If there are any among you who have not read Charlotte’s Web, by E. B. White, I strongly suggest that you do so this winter. Why? Because it’s wonderful. And even if you have …
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Another Veterans Day has come and gone, and as usual, the memories came back.
The uncle I grew up hearing about but never met because he was killed during World War II.
My other uncles, who …
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By Kathleen Anderson
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11/17/21
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Yesterday, November 15, was National Philanthropy Day. (If it seems like we have a lot of nonprofit celebration days this month, keep reading!)
National Philanthropy Day signifies the importance …
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By Mary Beth Harrington, CVA
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11/16/21
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