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by Michael Parise | Dec 10, 2020
For many, the holiday season is a season of joyful expectation, reunions with loved ones, and merry parties and group events. This year is decidedly different for most everyone who has a proper respect for the power of viruses. Yet, even in the best of circumstances,...
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by Michael Parise | May 10, 2017
The great Maya Angelou wrote in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” I totally agree with her. And she wasn’t referring to the kinds of stories about our past that seek to perpetuate our victim status!...
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by Michael Parise | May 10, 2017
Let’s face it, most of us love to complain. Some of us have made a career of it and a lot of stand-up comedians use complaining as the core of their act. Complaining is a way we get attention from others. It’s also a way we turn off people and drive them away!...
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by Michael Parise | Jun 10, 2015
This past winter in the Northeast was an exercise in frustration for those who had to plow their vehicles through slush, snow, and ice (full disclosure: I moved to FL in November and escaped it all!!). Yet plowing through is the only way to move forward sometimes. ...
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by Michael Parise | Jan 14, 2013
I often wake up at 4:30 AM in the midst of a very demanding and intense dream. The dream is usually one of conflict, argument, or internal problem-solving. Sometimes I can fall back to sleep after a bathroom visit (I wonder what the correlation is between dreaming...
