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Important, Not Urgent

June 24, 2014

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 6/19/2013 1:15 PM | Add Comment It is 4:45 pm, and in my perfect world, this blog was going to be written before noon.  Well, actually last Wednesday before noon.  But that didn’t happen either day, because urgent things kept coming up.  For instance, this morning I took my very sick…

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Learn Something New: Part Two

June 24, 2014

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 5/16/2013 9:46 AM | Add Comment Sucker that I am, I recently signed on for a year’s membership with Lumosity. www.lumosity.com.  Based on the new brain science of neuroplasticity, this website designs a set of mind exercises uniquely for you, based on your responses to a questionnaire.  You can then log…

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Learn Something New

June 24, 2014

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 4/24/2013 5:09 PM | Add Comment I’ve been absent from this blog for a while.  Why?  Because I’ve been learning something new.  I am learning what it takes to get a book published.  I am learning that turning what I write into a book is a process all its own.  I…

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Possibilitarian?

June 24, 2014

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 4/11/2013 7:34 AM | Add Comment Kelly Rae Roberts (www.kellyraeroberts.com) is a social worker turned artist and writer.  I am attracted to her art and follow her blog because they speak to the truth, beauty, and potential in all of us.  Like another of my favorite healing professionals and authors, Brene’…

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More Necessary Losses

June 24, 2014

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 1/17/2013 11:15 AM | Add Comment October 31, 2012 I have been spending too much time watching The Weather Channel, following the approach and aftermath of Sandy.  I am sure my interest has to do with the number of friends and family that live in the path of this destructive storm. …

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Necessary Losses

June 24, 2014

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 10/31/2012 3:59 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. September 16, 2012 “When it comes to love-to romantic love and sexual love and married love-we have to learn again, with difficulty, how to let go of all kinds of expectations.”  Judith Viorst in Necessary Losses…

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Role and Relationship

June 24, 2014

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 9/16/2012 7:40 PM | Add Comment “ I missed you.  I am glad you’re back.” I heard these words a few times when I returned from a recent vacation.  I have probably heard them before, but this time I really heard them, and I paid attention to them in a new…

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The Thread

June 24, 2014

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 8/21/2012 2:44 PM | Add Comment Just before my mother died in 2001, she gave me a big plastic box filled with slides and pictures.  She said there was no order to the pictures but she wanted someone to have them and to try to make some kind of order out…

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A Close Embrace

June 24, 2014

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 6/5/2012 7:19 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment My husband and I are in an Argentine Tango beginner’s class at a local dance studio.  When we learn a new move or sequence, we practice with each other first, and then we change partners.  Sometimes, more advanced male dancers join…

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Just Not Ready

June 24, 2014

Posted by AmySanderMontanez at 5/9/2012 3:05 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment I love the four seasons, and I am a person who changes with the seasons.  There are wines I drink only when it is hot and I can sit on my screened-in porch, ceiling fan running, and look at my garden. …

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