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April 30, 2019April 29, 2019Snowbird of Paradise

When to Stay and Fight and When to Retreat

Those who fight and run away, live to fight another day.  That little adage was always told to me with a little smile, a knowing wink, an understanding that sometimes the smart thing to do is to save your own skin. When I was a child, it forgave me for not being risk-taking or for […]

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January 1, 2017January 1, 2017Snowbird of Paradise

What Women Don’t Want

I’m developing a theory. My theory is that women, or most women anyway, aren’t much interested in joining armies.  We prefer to join forces in more subtle ways. We join book clubs, Facebook, and meetup groups.  It’s a kind of small-scale subterfuge. Increasingly, I live in a world of women. In part, that’s because women […]

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November 1, 2014October 30, 2014Snowbird of Paradise

Winning

I have only once been hit by a man, and it came as a huge shock. Until that point, all the men I knew had been gentle. They dealt with their anger and frustrations either by separating themselves from the problem, physical work, or discussion. Sometimes, all three. So when I was smacked in the […]

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