Barbara J. Hamby

How Hard it is to Change a Custom

For the first few years I wrote this blog, I managed to come up with a topic every day, sometimes on the spur of the moment. Lately I’ve been posting every other day and I often start one or two a few days ahead of time so I won’t have to think up something at the last minute.

This week… click here to continue

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September, 11th, 2011

The Curse of the Work Ethic

For twelve years since my retirement, I’ve been trying to shake the work ethic curse—the one that causes me to evaluate my accomplishments at the end of each day. If nothing I’ve done looks measurable, then I feel guilty.

It doesn’t help that I have acquaintances, such as a Vietnam veteran who is a writer and vows to write 1,000… click here to continue

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September, 09th, 2011

Pharmaceutical Promises

After listening to dozens, if not hundreds, of dreary pharmaceutical ads with long litanies of side effects, I finally heard one I might actually ask my doctor about under certain circumstances. A possible side effect listed is that elderly patients with dementia who take this drug may be more likely to die, or words to that effect. I don’t remember… click here to continue

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September, 07th, 2011

Does Anyone Think About Labor on Labor Day

What I hear about most on Labor Day weekend are football debuts and last camping trips of the season, or spending the weekend at the coast. If any thought is given to labor, it is gratitude for the three days off from whatever toil one is engaged in. Probably those who are unemployed think about not having a job to… click here to continue

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September, 05th, 2011

Online Communication

I’m blown away and flattered by the people who friend me on Facebook and want to link up on Linked In. I rarely reach out to anyone on either of these sites, especially to people who are much younger than I, believing that they are unlikely to be interested.

I really don’t know much about how to use those… click here to continue

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September, 03rd, 2011

The Old is New Again

“Sonic Hosts Car-Hop Skating Competition
   
AUGUST 31, 2011
CBS
The top Sonic car-hops in the nation will face off in Las Vegas in the 2011 Sonic Drive-in’s Dr. Pepper/RC Sports “So You Think You Can Skate?” competition.”

Sometime in the last couple of years, a Sonic drive-in popped up in our neighborhood. I… click here to continue

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September, 01st, 2011

If I Make It Through September

I know the song goes, “If I make it through December,” but I have so many medical/dental appointments in September, that I changed the lyrics.

I just hope to get this old body patched up to operate a few more years. I have too much to do to wear out now.

I went to the dentist this afternoon, who didn’t… click here to continue

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August, 30th, 2011

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