Tag: 2023
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Golden Ticket – Part 1
The next few Diva Dispatches are going to deal with a particular kind of advanced self care that I call “the Golden Ticket.” If you’re familiar with Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the novel, or the movies based on it – the Gene Wilder version is downright nightmare-inducing in the tunnel scene), you’ll remember that…
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Accept Grace
It can be hard to accept grace. While many Divas are excellent at extending grace to other people – from overly stressed-out co-workers to children who have forgotten that oh, yes TODAY is the day they are supposed to come to school dressed as President Van Buren, complete with out-of-control whiskers – we are often…
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Use It Up!
As a child, I remember learning to “save” things, particularly clothes. You’d go out to do your back-to-school shopping, bring it home, de-tag everything and run it through the wash (I actually remember soaking my indigo jeans in a bathtub of cold water to get the first run of dye and starch off them before…