…on Christmas’ Self Esteem Issues
Christmas has a self esteem problem. Or maybe our society does. We respond to our inadequacies and emotional bankruptcy by pimping out Christmas, putting garish make-up on it and prancing it out for an embarrassing show. I wish we’d stop. Christmas has always been wonderful. It is a cinnamony, pine-scented thing, a time of hopes [...]
It could be argued that the lifetime process of growing up involves an increasing understanding of the fact that others’ experiences really do apply to you and are often a harbinger of what’s to come for you. When you’re young, it’s easy to distance yourself from war, or death, or bad decisions, with the gorgeously [...]
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Time magazine recently did a cover story on the Facebook phenomenon. Remember 5 years ago you didn’t know what it was? Now, I learned in Time , Facebook is about to welcome its 500 millionth member. If Facebook was a country, it would have a population bigger than the United States. One in four people [...]
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I joined Facebook on December 27, 2007. I know because my first profile pic, a cell phone self-shot in half light, is dated that day. I had been receiving invitations from friends throughout 2007, and had ignored them all. I was on MySpace, after all, and found that a pointless and flashy intrusion. But, finally, [...]
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