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Where is your favorite place to vacation or visit? I went on a day trip once to Yosemite in 1988 and thought that it was incredibly beautiful. Lake Tahoe was also very beautiful.
https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm
How do you deal with unwanted spam calls either by a robocaller or live person? I have been getting a lot of spam calls to the point I am considering changing my phone number. They aren't political calls which would make sense this time of year, but they say they are calling about medicare...
I am wondering what your opinion is of the mental health services for either adults or children or both in the area where you live? I have worked in mental health over the last 14 years in the US and feel like there are still areas where it can be improved on. Seems like every time there is a...
I don't know if any of you have seen the videos of BJ Foggs and his talk about Tiny Habits, but I have recommended it several times lately to clients. He talks about making small changes, pairing it with a prompt or something you already do to help prompt or remind you to do the new habit and a...
I know some families who open presents for Christmas on Christmas eve night and some wait till morning. When do you generally open presents?
When I was a kid we could open one on Christmas eve, which usually was something from my aunt and uncle, usually a book.
COVID19 has changed our world a lot in the last few months. One of the things it has changed is sports. First thing I noticed is when the NBA canceled its season and then changed things completely this year. Baseball is different with either fans in the stands or fake pictures of fans and...
I recently decided to delete or deactivated a number of social media sites. It just seems like all there is is people arguing and being negative on it. I feel like after I am on social media it makes me feel drained and grumpy, particularly during an election year where everyone seems to have...
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2020/04/special-education-goes-remote-covid-19-pandemic/610231/?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share&fbclid=IwAR3RP3IodXaIWtvDw2K-lpVCla1nzitC8Q4Q6JjbnYR4UhhCQvh11S0cr90
I work with a number of kids that have autism or learning disabilities and it...
The Miami Dolphins aren't tanking; they're capsizing.
Following the Dolphins' 59-10 defeat to the Baltimore Ravens, Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio reported "multiple Dolphins players contacted their agents after Sunday's season-opening blowout loss and directed them to attempt to engineer...
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/08/29/scammer-call-police-captain-orig-acl.cnn
This police captian got a call from a scammer and posted it online to show people they should be careful with not giving out personal information.
I have had one or two calls like this where people threaten and...
I was just wonder what your preference is when you travel whether to say at a bed and breakfast, motel/hotel chain, camping or RV or something else?
I don't often go anywhere but we have only stayed at a bed and breakfast I think two times in the last twenty years. One time it was for an...
Do you have any goals of things you want to do or accomplish? do you write them down?
Some years I have a reading goal of how many books I want to read. I think I did 39 one year
Some years I try to read all the way through the Bible. I have done that several times.
Other years I wanted to...
Americans Are Friendly But Lonely
The majority of adults has anywhere between two and five close friends (62%), but one in five regularly or often feels lonely. Those who report the highest levels of loneliness are single, male, young and likely earning a lower income. Those who aren’t working...
Philippians 4:8-10 says
8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me...
One of my clients online lives somewhere near Hong Kong. She said there is 20 million people in the city she lives in.
What is the most exotic or unusual place you have visited or lived?
I visited Lake Tahoe once and the water was the most amazing blue I've ever seen. I would love to go back
I just finished a really great book by Dr.Richard O'Connor called "Rewire: Change Your Brain to Break Bad Habits, Overcome Addictions, Conquer Self-Destructive Behavior" in one section called "Waving the Red Flag" he writes about what he called the Waving the Red Flag and the Time Bomb...
I was wondering how much television the average person on here watches. If it were up to me, the television would rarely even come on. I can go weeks without watching it
Name some places you have visited that you really enjoyed or would go back and see again or would like to see.
I haven't ever been there but I would love to see niagara falls.
https://www.niagarafallsstatepark.com/
I have been to Yosemite and would love to go back again. it is amazing...
This is a Ted Talk from Rick Warren in 2006
https://www.ted.com/talks/rick_warren_on_a_life_of_purpose?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
I am old enough to remember times when we would have tornado drills and bomb drill because of fear that the Russians would bomb us during the Cold War, but today was my first ever lockdown drill at a school I was at. I am a school based counselor so during the school year I go to different...