If I’m calling around to see if what I have in mind is ethical or not, I already know the answer.
When I ask, “Is this ethical?” what I really mean is “Hey, there’s this thing I want to do and we both know I shouldn’t, that it’s unethical or immoral or just plain wrong, but [...]

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It is entirely within the realm of possibility that a person would, at 53, have a 3 year old grandchild.
However, it was much funnier when my 3 year old godson referred to my friend Marilyn (five years older than me) as Grandma, than it was when he turned around five minutes later, after I’d stopped [...]

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I started this journey of sudden unemployment induced total life change very gung-ho. I had lots and lots of things on my lists of to-do, to-try and to-pay the rent. Little by slowly those lists have gotten longer, shorter, refined, fine tuned.
In the middle of my white board I wrote: I AM A WRITER.
(please remind [...]

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