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Advice Conservatives Never Give Themselves
When are we going to stop living in the past?
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Free Will Astrology—Week of December 23
Take good care of your key friendships and alliances
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): To ensure that 2022 will bring you the most interesting and useful kind of progress, take good care of your key friendships and alliances, even as you seek out excellent new friendships and alliances. For best results, heed these thoughts from author Hanya Yanagihara: “Find people who are better than you […]
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Free Will Astrology—Week of December 16
Holiness begins in recognizing the face of the other
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The coming months will be a favorable time for you to redefine the meaning of the term “sacred” and to deepen your relationship with sacredness. To spur your imagination, I offer four quotes: 1. “Recognizing the sacred begins when we are interested in every detail of our lives.” —Buddhist teacher Chögyam […]
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Bed Over Heels?
It’s easy to believe you’re “in love” when you’re really just in lust
Bed Over Heels? I‘m a 29-year-old guy with a “keep it casual” relationship history, but I can’t stop thinking about this new girl at work. Beyond not wanting her to date anyone else, I don’t want someone to hurt her or make her sad. No other woman has ever made me feel this way. How […]
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Easy Rewriter, The Incredible Sulk
Consider that your husband’s memory might not be the only one that’s been, um, redecorated.
Easy Rewriter At a dinner, a woman asked how my husband and I met. He says he spotted me in the campus dining hall, deliberately bumped me and spilled my drink on my tray, and used getting me a refill to ask me out. This never happened. (We met in class, and he asked me […]