Letters to the Editor
restonian
Published Letters: 12
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Hire a life coach, now!
[Read the article: Now my mother's gone, what do I do?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You may also need therapy or counseling to deal with your grief, but a life coach can help you figure out what you want and act on it. Life coaching is all about determining what you seek and acting to create whatever that is in your life. Choose someone who is certified through the International Coach Federation, or a coach in training if budget is a big concern. After counseling, life coaching is the best money I've ever spent.
If you truly have no attachments, then travel seems like a great idea to me. It will remind you how big and beautiful the world really is, something that falls away when you are in the small world of caregiving (believe me, I speak from experience). If money's tight, find cheap opportunities to travel and work in exchange for room and board. Whatever it takes. Get out in the world and figure out who you are and what you love and the rest will sort itself out. Join the Peace Corps. Go on safari. Move to Mexico and help orphans. Whatever calls to you in some way, no matter how far-fetched it may seem, is what you should pursue.
Be open to love. Be open to friends. Listen to your inner voices and learn to figure out which ones are not worth listening to (critics and naysayers) and which ones are (intuition, crackpot dreams, inspirations). Get hurt, make mistakes, learn from those experiences and move on to new ones. As Auntie Mame would say, "Live, live, live!"
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watch if you haven't already
[Read the article: How photos support your own "reality"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]the amazing frontline program on John O'Neill, The Man Who Knew http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/
This put together the pieces of the 9/11 puzzle better than anything else I have read or seen since that terrible day.
People will always want to believe in conspiracies, but sometimes the twisted truth is quite complicated enough.
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people should mind their own business
[Read the article: My hip-to-waist ratio is nobody's business but mine]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hope the letter-writer (if she is for real) will see her doctor for an osteoporosis check if she hasn't done so already. My MIL has severe, disabling osteoporosis as a result of eating 1,200 calories per day for many years in order to maintain her emaciated figure (5 foot 7, I would wager 120 pounds max). When I weighed 125 at 5 foot 6 lo these many years ago, my doctor said, "It wouldn't kill you to gain five pounds." And I was all muscle from working out several hours per day. But I have a broad, strong frame like my peasant ancestors.
However, that being said, everyone's frame and metabolism are different. There are healthy and unhealthy people at every mark along the spectrum, including fat marathon runners and stick-thin people with high cholesterol. But no one should comment on another person's physical appearance, unless the comment is, "You look great." When are people going to learn that discretion is the better part of valor? If you can't say something nice, zip your lip. If you can't love your own body, then shut up about it. And for heaven's sake, stop talking about other people's bodies. There are many more important things to do with your limited time on the planet.
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stay put!
[Read the article: My company wants me to move to California ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]There will be other opportunities; clearly this one does not speak to you. As a life coach, I am trained to watch out for the word or feeling "should," as in, I should take promotion because I should want to move up in my company. Not necessarily, if your life is groovy as it is. Not everyone WANTS to go for the brass ring, at least not when it involves leaves behind all that seems right to you. Now you might want to evaluate whether you love your job and are in the right field, but you can do that without moving to California for what does not seem to be your dream job opportunity. Stay where you are, explore what you really want in your heart of hearts, and take a risk when you are doing so for something that feels right, but possibly still scary, to you.
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Obama should do another ad, but that's precisely what he's saying in speeches
[Read the article: The return of Charles Keating]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The Obama campaign and its leader can walk and chew gum at the same time--Obama is on the stump reminding people that McCain wants to turn the page on the economy and instead smear Obama. But this time around, the Democrats will not stand for Republican smears, particularly when John McCain's pals are far more worrisome than Barack Obama's. And that's before we even start talking about Sarah Palin's preacher problems and her husband belonging to the Alaska Independence Party.
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Sarah Palin is a total phony
[Read the article: Palin faking her accent? You betcha]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My mom lives in Alaska half the year and she says it's all fake. Sarah Palin is pouring on the faux folksiness for effect, and she never dropped her g's before recent interviews and speeches. She will do anything to further her own agenda and she has no shame.
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she was game, but it was truly painful
[Read the article: The rap on Palin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to see Sarah Palin stand there and say, "I'm not going to take any questions." There's nothing funny about the fact that we know next to nothing about Palin's views or ideas of governance and will not know any more about her by election day except how low she is willing to stoop to further her ambitions. It is terribly sad that people are already voting in this election and one of the four top contenders has NEVER held a press conference. It's pathetic. And now she's trying to say people have been attacking her kids? Who, exactly?
Amy Poehler was terrific and gets extra points for rocking that hard while that close to giving birth. Tina Fey was good, but seemed uncomfortable with the whole set-up, as did Alec Baldwin.