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andrea-annie
@andrea-annie Sep 12, 2018, 7:28 PM UTC

Have you been wronged? Ask yourself:

Is the person you believe has wronged you reasonably responding to a problem caused by you? For just a few examples: demanding leadership treatment for follower behavior and qualifications dishonesty…

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andrea-annie
@andrea-annie Oct 24, 2017, 9:47 AM UTC

Fighting communism -- a 1970s perspective

True story. In the 1970s, in left-coast California, I was a college student at a university where a strangely high percentage of professors were self-described Marxists. I had a hard time understandi…

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andrea-annie
@andrea-annie Oct 16, 2017, 12:23 AM UTC

Eulogy For My Father

This is my dad’s 2006 Day Planner. Every single year, no matter what, he got a new one, put it in his back pocket when he got dressed for the day, and took it with him everywhere he went. But 2006 wa…

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andrea-annie
@andrea-annie Aug 3, 2017, 5:48 AM UTC

Question for scientists - about removing plastic garbage from ocean

If it's true that there's so much plastic garbage floating on the earth's oceans that it covers areas the size of the state of California... ...would it be possible to use static electricity -- or so…

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andrea-annie
@andrea-annie Jun 23, 2017, 10:12 PM UTC

Improvising Childhood (How I fared with my brother in a game of war.)

I used to live in one of those stucco buildings in Los Angeles—the kind where the doors of all the apartments open to the same courtyard. Most of the tenants were recent immigrants. They came from Ro…

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andrea-annie
@andrea-annie Mar 28, 2017, 9:40 AM UTC

What to do when a dentist wants to drill holes into your healthy teeth

It happened to me once. Years later, it could have happened four more times. Forgive me. I know talking about this is like scratching brittle fingernails on an old dry chalkboard. I promise the hard-…

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andrea-annie
@andrea-annie Mar 5, 2017, 3:35 AM UTC

I can show you I spied on you, but if you ever dare say I spied on you, i'll say you're lying

https://i.imgsafe.org/b8bed94c88.jpg Wasn't last week's scandal about information Democrats say they got by spying on Republicans? Leakers said they could prove Republicans were talking to Russians w…

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andrea-annie
@andrea-annie Dec 26, 2016, 10:25 PM UTC

Does Santa Set Boundaries Today? Some thoughts about healthy “selflessness”

http://i.imgsafe.org/195ed578aa.jpg Some years ago, someone told me, "No good deed goes unpunished." It was one of those moments when I actually heard what was being said, and thought about it off an…

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andrea-annie
@andrea-annie Oct 25, 2016, 9:47 PM UTC

Skeet. The homeless guy. Photo:

Skeet. The homeless guy. Photo: https://s5.postimg.org/gzf96lmlz/Skeet.jpg I posted a story about him earlier today, but the photo-thumbnail doesn't display. I'm asking for help in giving him my car.…

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andrea-annie
@andrea-annie Oct 25, 2016, 9:19 PM UTC

Anybody else struggling with the self-intro here? I sure am.

Whoever it is I am seems to be stranger, much less familiar to me, as the years go by. Goals have morphed, plans have failed, hopes have faded. New, enticing, and probably just-as-elusive possibiliti…

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