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Wishful Thinking

Wishful Thinking

I’m helpless and I hate it. Halfway across the continent from me, a young woman is fighting for her life. Halfway around the world, another is reeling from an awful discovery. I care very much about both of them, but there’s pretty much nothing I can do. I can’t rescue either. I can’t beat the […]

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Scary

Quoting from this site: Increasing numbers of young people in Japan are feeling alienated by modern life. Several thousand are termed “hikikomori” – recluses who never leave their room, finding entertainment only on the internet.  The suicide pacts still make up a relatively small proportion of Japan’s suicides.  More than 34,000 Japanese took their own

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Over-Extended

It happens to everybody, I guess.  Well, hell, if it can happen to me, it must.  I’m over-extended and exhausted and I just want it all to go away. On Yahoo I own one group, and moderate (the others abdicated) another.  I blog daily, I write daily, I’m a single mom and full-time school employee. 

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