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Good Days...Bad Days With Maureen Pratt
Just for fun
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mpratt
Today is the perfect day to do something just for fun. Actually, every day is perfect, but why not start today? Just because you have a chronic illness or just because my knees buckle doesn’t mean we are unworthy of fun. What kind of fun? It doesn’t have to be elaborate. In fact, it doesn’t…
You can be contagious!
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mpratt
Just as surely as we allow our bad days to make for bad moods and thus make for more isolation than relationships, so, too, on our good days, our lifted spirits can be the spark that makes for the ultimate in happy contagion – a contagion of goodwill and humor to all. Far from being…
Chronic Illness: How to Handle the Snowball
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mpratt
Whenever someone visits or lives in a place where snow has recently fallen, I ask them to “throw a snowball for me.” It was one of my favorite things to do, when I lived in blizzard-prone places, and I still like the vicarious glee of thinking of one of those cold orbs arcing across the…
A Little Bit of Whimsey, a Whole Lot of Love
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mpratt
What makes you smile? Oh, not a toothy grin, and not a sad melancholy expression. And, not life’s laugh tracks, the times we’re supposed to laugh just because everyone else is (and usually because of embarrassment, not joy). Rather, what makes your lips turn up in gentle pleasure, lifting your spirits, too, and giving your…
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