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Dan Ariely: Closing Doors

In this podcast with renowned behavioral economist, Dan Ariely, you’ll find out why keeping your options open may be why your window to happiness may be closing.

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Crawling Back To Zero

Several years ago, I attended the funeral of Brian Doyle, a beloved writer (Mink River, Wet Engine) and a friend of mine. Brian was a man of many friends:  St. Mary’s Cathedral in Portland, Oregon, quickly filled to capacity, spilling into the aisles and then into the choir loft. The first seven rows

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What’s in your cards?

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Have you ever played poker and found yourself staring at your hand, unsure of what you really have? I’ve been there, focused on trying to make a pair or three of a kind, only to realize later that I might have had a straight or a flush right in front of me the whole time.

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The Notecard

My younger self smiles at me as I sift through old photographs stored in a tattered cardboard box. Finally, under snapshots of my baby sister, and those of my parents in their thirties and forties, ­­I find the note. 

It’s a garden-variety notecard with watercolour flowers on the front, perfect for writing an obligatory thank you note. It once carried the scent of my mother — a combination of cigarettes, hand lotion and

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Expiration Date: Outliving My Heart

“This is the natural end-stage of your disease. There is nothing more we can do for you.” Those are the words my cardiologist of twenty years said to me shortly after my thirty-sixth birthday. Diagnosed at the age of seven with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, a congenital heart defect, I lived with the specter of death for three decades. 

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