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If you were to volunteer for a charity, which would it be?
May May May!!! Things are starting to look so GREEN and we are loving this time of year. We are exploring the world of volunteering today. Do you have a favorite charity that you would like to help at? Ellen and Pam talk a little bit about the volunteering that they have done in the past and would like to do in the future My life at the moment is quite busy and I do not currently volunteer for anything, but there are lots of ideas running through my head. In the past, I have sat at the bedside of the dying as a trained Hospice Volunteer, I have shaved…
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What one change would you like to see in your lifetime?
Changes – big and small. They come at us daily. But what one change would you like to see in your lifetime? This is a pie-in-the-sky wish. And one that I can answer with one sentence. A revamped Political system – one that abolishes corruption. See what I mean about pie-in-the-sky? Oh and while we are at it – No more hunger, poverty, violence, More pie-in-the-sky ideas. So I will just head back to my own corner of the world and do the next right thing – it’s all we can each do. My immediate reaction to this was to start talking about kindness, loving one another and the Golden…
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Did you have a curfew as a teen and did you ever break it?
Curfews. That dreaded thing that parents invoke onto their teens to keep them safe and using good judgement. And also that thing that a lot of teens rebel against as they try to spread their wings. Lets see what curfews were set in the Cooley household. My Mom, my main disciplinarian, was very open about her expectations of me as a teen. We would have long talks about what scenarios could present themselves and what would be my actions in each. We originally started out with a curfew and as I expanded my social interactions to neighboring towns, that curfew was slowly loosened until it was gone altogether. I did…
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Can you think of a time when you had more responsibility than you could handle?
Responsibilities. We all have them in varying degrees and they change as we age. The question we are posing today is about feeling overwhelmed in those responsibilities. Have you ever felt that way? Ellen and Pam have – scroll down to see when. There was a time in my professional career when I was promoted from programmer to Programming Manager. Three programmers and an assistant now reported to me and while I felt 100% capable of handling this new position and all that it entailed, there were certain things that it added to my life. Extra hours each week were devoted to the managerial/admin duties that came with having people…
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Have you ever lied about your age?
Age. It’s a funny thing really. When we are young we want to be older and visa versa. Our question this week is – have you ever lied about it, either way? Most of the people I hung around with in high school had birthdays early in the year, while mine was in October. This meant that they did just about everything before I did, including turning 18. Today that might not seem like a big deal but back then, 18 was drinking age. Partying was especially important during our senior year – after all, we had a lot to celebrate. A lot of those parties took place at homes,…
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Was there a chore you really hated doing as a child?
Want to see what we hated? Just click on our names above the tree. Care to share your chore responsibilities as a child and whether you loved or hated doing whatever you were assigned? Scroll down to comment. When I was in elementary school, my mom started teaching Ellen and me about household chores. While we always had to help pick up and keep our own rooms clean, this was about the time that we were assigned specific jobs on the groundfloor. Because I was four years older than Ellen, my job was, of course, more difficult. We lived in a very large center chimney colonial that was built in 1776, a…