Category: 24-7 Life lessons from Mom
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Finish something
By Jay Hiller, May 24, 2023 Photo by Reid Naaykens on Unsplash There are two unfinished needlepoint projects under my desk. I started one of them in 2002 and the second one in 2006. I know the point where I stopped working on them and every time I glance in their direction it zaps a…
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Too easily stressed
By Jay Hiller, May 19, 2023 Photo by Greg Rosenke on Unsplash I got a text a few hours ago, that stressed me out. And then I remembered something important. I don’t remember what was stressing me out on this date a year ago. I’m sure there was something, because I worry a lot. And…
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An ongoing experiment
By Jay Hiller, May 17, 2023 Photo by Alex Kondratiev on Unsplash It took me a while to realize that for many years I’ve been running an ongoing health experiment on my body. I try stuff, sometimes with good results, as in swimming, running, yoga, weightlifting, sometimes not so good, as candy bars advertising themselves…
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The complexity of Mother’s Day
By Jay Hiller, May 14, 2023 by Jay Hiller, May 14, 2023 Mother’s Day is there if you have young children and you’re tired. Mother’s Day is there if you’re children are adults that you’re proud of. Mother’s Day is there if you’re children are troubled. Mother’s Day is there if your children have passed…
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The Friday Night Sigh
by Jay Hiller, May 12, 2023 Photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash Twelve years ago I had a great routine on Friday afternoons. After work, I would go to the gym and swim laps. Then I would go to the library to kill time before going to the yoga studio and taking class from a…
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Go for a walk.
By Jay Hiller, May 11, 2023 Photo by Arek Adeoye on Unsplash This afternoon I came home from worky work unhappy with a decision I’ve half made. The weather’s not as hot as it’s going to be, but it’s hot enough to make you remember how bad it’s gonna get. I was cranky. It was…
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Little things
By Jay Hiller, April 30, 2023 Photo by Marie-Hélène Rots on Unsplash I didn’t realize that I was going to write about spiders when I found this picture of a ladybug. Last weekend, I found a spider on the floaty thing-a-ma-jig that we hook paddleboards into to practice SUP yoga. He must have hitchhiked from…
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Everyday is a chance to turn it all around
By Jay Hiller, April 10, 2023 Photo by Masaaki Komori on Unsplash I used to read housekeeping books, because I wanted to be a better home manager. (Reading the books without actually doing housework doesn’t clean the house, by the way, though I kept hoping it would.) In one of them, and I wish I…
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Who are you?
by Jay Hiller, April 6, 2023 Photo by Park Troopers on Unsplash Yesterday I watched a video of myself explaining who I was in terms of my resume and then in terms of my relationship to someone else. Everything I said was accurate but it was also incomplete. Thinking about yourself in terms of something…
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Excess of things
by Jay Hiller, March 18, 2023 Photo by Julia Joppien on Unsplash I’m working steadily but slowly to reduce the amount of stuff in my home and life. Having seen two family members in the last 3 years spend enormous amounts of time and energy dealing with the possessions of family members who have died,…