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Hi everyone,

I am in CT; last night after seven days without power, my street's power was restored.  There are over 215,000 people in CT still without power.  I can attest to how hard it is to stay warm at night in Novemeber in CT without power.

If you have any way to help people in this area to stay warm -- or any way to let others know that this is happening and perhaps influence THEM to help these people in need -- this is a GREAT opportunity for you to give.

I'm…

During these 10 days, I learned about not using words and the power and effectiveness of this choice.

One of my dogs gave me trouble in water rescue training.  I couldn't figure why, until someone talked about correction with dogs.  I realized when I work my dog on water, I correct using my voice as it's easier for me physically.  But on land, I don't make much verbal corrections and she does what I want.  So, this weekend, I made a point not to use my voice to correct... she did…

Today I learned eight new ways to help my chronically injured ankle and knee.  Eight!  And none of them are drugs!!

I am very grateful to the new pain management PT/PA who helped me.  I'm so excited to learn these new treatments.  I can't tell you what relief I felt when I learned that with work things should turn around for my pain and mobility.

Now all my worries about permanent loss of mobility are now gone.  I'm continuing to put my nose to the grindstone to turn my…

In the past five months, I've had two "friendships" end poorly. [I use quotes around the word friend because I it took some ugly interactions for me to realize these people were never my friend in the first place.  But when these things happened, I assumed they were my friends.]  What these endings have in common is the method of the ending: emails. In these emails, ugly things were written to me about me.

The first "friend" shared my emails to her with the second "friend". They…