This Happened To Me: Thank You, Susi, The Short Of It
This Happened To Me: Thank You, Susi, The Short Of It—It can happen to you too.
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November 8, 2024
The Short of It - Susi Bocks
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Stream of consciousness post. Can you help me to figure this out please. Thanks.
February 11, 2023
Foy Vance for Your Wednesday
Having ordinary days. Want to reach out to you with an extraordinary piece of music that bathe me with warmth and gentle happiness today. Be well my friends.
June 23, 2021
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The Ultimate Act of Love in The ’80s #Day22 #NaPoWriMo
Where were you on November 29th, 1987? And what were you doing? Click to read where I was. It was phenomenal. And reliving it in today's prompt had me smiling all day. Incidentally, that tape still exists.
April 22, 2021
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A Name is Worthy of Song, So Sing My Name to Havana #Day14
We're challenged to write a poem that delves into the meaning of our name. There's a lot to talk about here, as I write under my middle name, my pen-name. See how you like my creation. Thanks for reading.
April 14, 2021
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How and Why You Should Raise Your Laugh Quota
Are you laughing enough? Is the reason you aren't laughing because you see that life is too serious? Or because you think that laughter is childish? Well there's a disparity in the studies. And some have even called the disparity a myth. Is it just a myth? A joke? Regardless, this is one joke that just ain’t funny. Let me help you to see the benefits in laughter. Read on.
August 13, 2020
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How Comforting is Your Comfort Food?
A few decades ago, back when I was living flamboyantly in Chicago, I was introduced to a food extravaganza that could have defrocked any home-grown priest in my small country of Belize. Newly arrived and having never had a real hamburger — and by real, I mean a whopper from The House of the great whopper — I was already sold on the American staple. To my defense, let me tell you that I ate with gusto, actually licked my fingers, again thinking of my upbringing of waste-not.
May 19, 2020
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How I Tried to Blend In, Failed but Found my ‘Funny’
In the 1990s I was a new mother raising my kids in a land so foreign than my own that tuning in to the way I saw my mommy-friends do it turned to be the new normal I wanted to imitate. I tried the mamachari... "The mamachari is a cultural icon, it’s the Japanese equivalent of the family station wagon. It’s the family workhorse used on shopping runs, for riding to the local station, taking the kids to school or picking them up from sports practice. Without it families around the country would be in a right pickle. "— Byron Kidd
May 11, 2020
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You’re A Model. Say Cheese!
So parents, be good role models for your children. The future of humankind depends on it. You’re tired and feel spent, I know. I’ve been there. Still, be good models... the rewards will come; and when they do you'll comprehend why there’s no other job in the world quite as rewarding as that of being a good parent.
May 7, 2020
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Take One; Take Two
Remembering something similar that happened to me a very long time ago when I came to Japan, I roared uncontrollably with my own bout of laughter. Words got stuck in my throat and with more to do than to just wait for his mother to recover from the laughter, my young man hung up on me.
May 5, 2020
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If You Were A Fruit Tree
I've been in the company of strangers who became friends almost immediately; friends who were busy and a little lost. Like me, they were out looking to discover what kind of fruit trees they were. Now, I'm here to remind you that sometimes we need to sublimate our fears and go out looking for unfamiliar things in order to find ourselves.
February 12, 2020
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How to Grow your Audience on Social Media
Take it from me, dear reader/subscriber/follower, one person's success does not take away from someone else achieving the same. Be it success in Social Media, in the workplace, school or home. But the difference in achieving it relies on one vital ingredient. I know because it happened to me. Read about it here.
January 22, 2020