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Category Archives: Action
Poor Man, Rich Man: DA (Part 3)
Part 1 Part 2 A week later, I went back to DA. And for the next six months I went back to most meetings, unless something suddenly came up that night. The routine very quickly fell into place – catching … Continue reading
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Poor Man, Rich Man: DA (Part 2)
Part 1 A funny thing happened on the way to my first DA meeting. A couple of hours before the meeting, I caught the train over to the major suburb near the meeting venue. I did this to have dinner … Continue reading
Kindle: Year One
Previous posts on this subject: Kindle Kindle, again 21 April, 2012. Yes, it’s been a year since that fateful night when I made the big decision to buy an Amazon Kindle (or a Kindle Keyboard, as my model is now … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Bibliophilia, Gratitude, Happiness, Life Strategies, Reading
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Poor Man, Rich Man: DA (Part 1)
A few months ago, a friend who’d spent the past few years living overseas returned to Sydney. Recently, she invited me to join her roommate and some friends for a pizza night at her new home – and when she … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Anger, Hope, Life Challenges, Life Strategies, My Story, Pain, Poor Man Rich Man, Resources, Something to Think About
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Again, one does not simply walk into Clouston & Hall Booksellers (Part 3)
Part 1 Part 2 Shortly after my second failed attempt to dine at Happy’s Chinese Restaurant, I went past the equally-packed King O’Malley’s and soon arrived at the local Pancake Parlour. Fortunately, the Pancake Parlour wasn’t packed, and I had … Continue reading
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Again, one does not simply walk into Clouston & Hall Booksellers (Part 2)
Part 1 Friday, 16 March, 2012. My second week of working in Canberra had come to an end. Like the first week, it had been demanding and at times grueling, but rewarding. I had been asked to stay a third … Continue reading
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Again, one does not simply walk into Clouston & Hall Booksellers (Part 1)
My previous walk Saturday, 10 March, 2012. After a week of very erratic weather, ranging from summer-like heat to winter-like cold and including heavy storms, it was a great day here in Canberra. I’d been here a week for an … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Bibliophilia, Happiness, Life is Good, Life Strategies
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Poor Man, Rich Man (a new series and category)
There’s a small IKEA storage container that sits on the bottom shelf of the freezer in my fridge. That container holds six dead relics from an 18-year chapter of my life that came to an end on Monday 14 February … Continue reading
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Antidepressants and me (Part 4)
To my regular readers, my apologies again for missing another post last week. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 After several weeks of the black dog constantly gnawing at me again, I told my psychiatrist. After some discussion and another … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Depression, Hope, Life Challenges, Life is Good, My Story, Resilience, Therapy
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Antidepressants and me (Part 3)
To my regular readers, my apologies for not posting last week. Part 1 Part 2 In late 2009, as described in this post, I went through a bad bout of depression that I thought would be temporary. But in the … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Depression, Hope, Life Challenges, Life is Good, My Story, Resilience
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