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95Stress Leave
Recently, I approached my doctor about taking some stress leave from my job. I was terribly nervous about doing this, and most of that stress has little to do with the fact that I'd never seen this doctor...
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81Designing Lace Shawls
When I first started knitting, I started reading blogs from more prolific knitters. In addition to learning common knitting mistakes and how to avoid them, I also got to see many pictures of their works in...
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80Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
Unlike Munchausen syndrome, where the affected person induces or fakes illness in themselves, Munchausen-by-proxy is much more insidious. With Munchausen by proxy, the affected person induces illness in...
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81Dollar Store Holidays
The winter holidays are fast approaching, and the same old message is everywhere you look: Spend spend spend! Sure, there's some "love thy neighbour" and "feed the hungry" in there as well, but for the most...
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79Auditory Processing Disorder
Imagine someone says the word "apple" to you. The individual sounds of the word go in your ear, combine to make a cohesive whole that you then recognise as a word. That grouping of sounds then travels to...
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79Veiled Pagans
In a move that has surprised and baffled a great many of my friends, I have started to cover my head for religious reasons. Now, with that sentence alone one might think there's nothing odd about it. Plenty...
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84Recycling Yarn: Frugal, or Just Plain Cheap?
Tan cotton worsted weight yarn, and spring green angora/nylon yarn, both recycled from sweaters. With the cost of living continuing to rise, and wages not really increasing much to reflect that, many people...
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77Passing the Time While Unemployed
I've been on something of a hiatus from HubPages for a while, trying to once again find my centre. My life has been through some drastic changes over the past half year. I lost my job, and except for a...
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78Munchausen Syndrome
Munchausen Syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which the affected persona fakes or feigns illness in order to bring attention to themselves. Depending on the severity of the disorder, they may profess to...
3 comments77How Not to Treat Employees
Most people go into new jobs with certain expectations. Most of those expectations boil down to the understanding that their employer will not try to screw them over. Sometimes, those expectations don't...
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