When my husband and I were building our current house in 2001, we felt quite blessed to have a wonderfully experienced older man. He likes things just a certain way, his way. There are four rooms to tile. Three of the four have a name for the tile pattern in which they are laid. But [...]

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When you get regular offers to have your chapter included in someone's upcoming book, you don't always find it goes far. Today, when I was cleaning out email files I found this chapter for a book I believe was never published. If it turns out to be otherwise, my apologies to a Sharon Brown, who [...]

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Being introverted has its benefits. Introverts often have a greater appreciation of understatement and subtlety than extroverts and are usually deep thinkers, meaning that they strive to attain a richer, fuller understanding of the world around them. However this type of personality is not without its negative points, one of them being that introverts are [...]

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"V" is for Vulnerability.   Most of us are conditioned to shield ourselves from vulnerability, especially as Introverts. The fear is that if we open ourselves up, we will invite unwanted criticism.  This is a real possibility but more likely is the opposite:  Praise or at the very least understanding. Here is an example from [...]

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