Unresolved
Don't make 'em; can't break 'em34 total reviews
Comment from Iza Deleanu
Hi Liz, m heart is broken, so who is going to buy it? Anyway, nice year resolution, and I hope to be a better one for you:) Thank you fo sharing, and good luck with your writings.
reply by the author on 27-Dec-2020
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Hi Liz, m heart is broken, so who is going to buy it? Anyway, nice year resolution, and I hope to be a better one for you:) Thank you fo sharing, and good luck with your writings.
Comment Written 26-Dec-2020
reply by the author on 27-Dec-2020
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Happy 2021 to you too!
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This was printed in my local paper--I'd sent it to the editor as a year-end thank-you gift for his having printed several of my letters over the prior months--I was floored to see it appear when publication resumed mid-January.
Comment from Mary Kay Bonfante
I enjoyed reading your commentary on New Year's resolutions, and I remember the first dozen, or so, years of my life, before I, too, realized what an exercise in frustration this business of making New Year's resolutions really is. Why did our parents and grandparents ever encourage such a self-defeating practice in their offspring? Surely they had the benefit of experience! Has anyone ever stood up on a podium and said, "My life was in a shambles, up until New Year's Eve, of 1997, when I made the most powerful resolution, that rocked my world?"
NO.
I also remember the days before the mega-malls, also with a kind of nostalgia. And it was not my mother who frequented Lane Bryant, but me. Now, if I need a plus-size item, I generally use a catalog, or the internet.
Very nice image, by the way.
reply by the author on 27-Dec-2020
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I enjoyed reading your commentary on New Year's resolutions, and I remember the first dozen, or so, years of my life, before I, too, realized what an exercise in frustration this business of making New Year's resolutions really is. Why did our parents and grandparents ever encourage such a self-defeating practice in their offspring? Surely they had the benefit of experience! Has anyone ever stood up on a podium and said, "My life was in a shambles, up until New Year's Eve, of 1997, when I made the most powerful resolution, that rocked my world?"
NO.
I also remember the days before the mega-malls, also with a kind of nostalgia. And it was not my mother who frequented Lane Bryant, but me. Now, if I need a plus-size item, I generally use a catalog, or the internet.
Very nice image, by the way.
Comment Written 26-Dec-2020
reply by the author on 27-Dec-2020
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Thanks for stopping by--glad you can relate!Cheers. LIZ
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Thrilled you enjoyed the piece. It was printed in my local paper--I'd sent it to the editor as a year-end thank-you gift for his having printed several of my letters over the prior months--I was floored to see it appear when publication resumed mid-January.
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You're so very welcome!
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I really did! It was a bonus that it was printed. God bless you in 2021, Liz, in unexpected and wonderful ways.
Love, Mary Kay xoxo
Comment from Robert Zimmerman
Hello Liz.
I get it! Don't make resolutions you have no intention of keeping. I actually make a single resolution every year and I have never broken it. I make the same one. It is: MAKE NO RESOLUTIONS. If something is good enough to to resolve to do, I just start doing, or not doing it.
Robert
reply by the author on 27-Dec-2020
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Hello Liz.
I get it! Don't make resolutions you have no intention of keeping. I actually make a single resolution every year and I have never broken it. I make the same one. It is: MAKE NO RESOLUTIONS. If something is good enough to to resolve to do, I just start doing, or not doing it.
Robert
Comment Written 26-Dec-2020
reply by the author on 27-Dec-2020
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Thanks for stopping by--glad you can relate!Cheers. LIZ
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This was printed in my local paper--I'd sent it to the editor as a year-end thank-you gift for his having printed several of my letters over the prior months--I was floored to see it appear when publication resumed mid-January.
Comment from GregoryCody
This is great. I'm telling you it's the language you use. It's intelligent and we'll picked out but it FLOWS perfectly. To be honest I had to read a couple lines twice (complex). The message is hilarious too. Your close is brilliant. Good play on words.
Overall well deserved :)
reply by the author on 27-Dec-2020
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This is great. I'm telling you it's the language you use. It's intelligent and we'll picked out but it FLOWS perfectly. To be honest I had to read a couple lines twice (complex). The message is hilarious too. Your close is brilliant. Good play on words.
Overall well deserved :)
Comment Written 26-Dec-2020
reply by the author on 27-Dec-2020
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Hello again, Gregory--What a delightful ssssssurprise.
Thrilled you enjoyed the piece. It was printed in my local paper--I'd sent it to the editor as a year-end thank-you gift for his having printed several of my letters over the prior months--I was floored to see it appear when publication resumed mid-January.
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Wow that's Incredible! I wish I could get something published. I got a piece oublished in a Radiology Journal. Work. But never real writing :)
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It was printed in the Letters to Editor section; none others beneath it--thus it appeared as if it were a contribution by a guest columnist--I made a play to the ed. for having a regular column; no response, alas. (I wrote a piece months ago in which I include the text of that proposal--perhaps I'll promote it.
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I hear you. You should get a column. That would be Amazing!!
Comment from Sandra Stoner-Mitchell
I'm totally with you on that one, Liz, it's an excellent resolve, one I aim to keep! Well done, you could make a fortune selling this amazing piece of wisdom to the Chinese to put in their fortune cookies. :)) Loved this story, my friend, Hope you had a lovely Christmas, and I wish you a great 2021. :)) Sandra xx
reply by the author on 27-Dec-2020
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I'm totally with you on that one, Liz, it's an excellent resolve, one I aim to keep! Well done, you could make a fortune selling this amazing piece of wisdom to the Chinese to put in their fortune cookies. :)) Loved this story, my friend, Hope you had a lovely Christmas, and I wish you a great 2021. :)) Sandra xx
Comment Written 26-Dec-2020
reply by the author on 27-Dec-2020
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Thanks for stopping by--glad you can relate!Cheers. LIZ
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This was printed in my local paper--I'd sent it to the editor as a year-end thank-you gift for his having printed several of my letters over the prior months--I was floored to see it appear when publication resumed mid-January.
Comment from Suzanna Ray
Dear Liz, I am not sure if you meant this post to be satirical, or just good practical advice. but it drips with humor, always a commodity to be commended.
It certainly is posted at a time most needed, When most of us get carried away with making new resolutions.
reply by the author on 25-Dec-2020
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Dear Liz, I am not sure if you meant this post to be satirical, or just good practical advice. but it drips with humor, always a commodity to be commended.
It certainly is posted at a time most needed, When most of us get carried away with making new resolutions.
Comment Written 25-Dec-2020
reply by the author on 25-Dec-2020
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Though intended to be humorous, I regret to admit that it is not satirical. Cheers. LIZ
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This was printed in my local paper--I'd sent it to the editor as a year-end thank-you gift for his having printed several of my letters over the prior months--I was floored to see it appear when publication resumed mid-January.
Comment from lyenochka
Perfect one for the New Year. I guess we didn't have a Gimbel's in Hawaii. But I recognized the other names of the stores. I also don't make new year's resolutions. At this point, I'll just probably forget.
reply by the author on 24-Dec-2020
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Perfect one for the New Year. I guess we didn't have a Gimbel's in Hawaii. But I recognized the other names of the stores. I also don't make new year's resolutions. At this point, I'll just probably forget.
Comment Written 24-Dec-2020
reply by the author on 24-Dec-2020
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Thanks for stopping by--glad you can relate!Cheers. LIZ
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This was printed in my local paper--I'd sent it to the editor as a year-end thank-you gift for his having printed several of my letters over the prior months--I was floored to see it appear when publication resumed mid-January.
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Wonderful!!
Comment from kmoss
Great way to tie this piece together! I follow this same rule. It makes my New Year begin and end with less stress and less pressure. Another well written piece! Thanks for the heads up. :)
reply by the author on 24-Dec-2020
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Great way to tie this piece together! I follow this same rule. It makes my New Year begin and end with less stress and less pressure. Another well written piece! Thanks for the heads up. :)
Comment Written 23-Dec-2020
reply by the author on 24-Dec-2020
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Thanks for stopping by--glad you can relate!Cheers. LIZ
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This was printed in my local paper--I'd sent it to the editor as a year-end thank-you gift for his having printed several of my letters over the prior months--I was floored to see it appear when publication resumed mid-January.
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:) Nice!
Comment from Wendy G
I enjoyed this, with its combination of warnings and good advice, for living better! It is humorous and skilfully written with the slight adaptation from Christmas shopping dangers to the disappointment of broken commitments.Clever writing.
reply by the author on 24-Dec-2020
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I enjoyed this, with its combination of warnings and good advice, for living better! It is humorous and skilfully written with the slight adaptation from Christmas shopping dangers to the disappointment of broken commitments.Clever writing.
Comment Written 23-Dec-2020
reply by the author on 24-Dec-2020
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Hello again, Wendy!Thanks for stopping by--glad you enjoyed the piece. Cheers. LIZ
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This was printed in my local paper--I'd sent it to the editor as a year-end thank-you gift for his having printed several of my letters over the prior months--I was floored to see it appear when publication resumed mid-January.
Comment from judiverse
I'm with you on this. I don't make New Year's resolutions. I know I'd never keep them. Your description of the shopping mall days really takes me back. I remember a high school classmate who spent her working life at Lane Bryant in Indianapolis. I don't know what its status is not, as so many stores have closed. This is well presented, and I admire your distinctive voice. judi
I'll just add a note to this. It would be useless for me to make New Year's resolutions, as I know I'd never keep them. Besides, if you want to improve, why should there be just one day of the year to do it? Those references to the mall really take me back. We hardly have any department stores left where I live. Happy New Year. judi
reply by the author on 30-May-2020
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I'm with you on this. I don't make New Year's resolutions. I know I'd never keep them. Your description of the shopping mall days really takes me back. I remember a high school classmate who spent her working life at Lane Bryant in Indianapolis. I don't know what its status is not, as so many stores have closed. This is well presented, and I admire your distinctive voice. judi
I'll just add a note to this. It would be useless for me to make New Year's resolutions, as I know I'd never keep them. Besides, if you want to improve, why should there be just one day of the year to do it? Those references to the mall really take me back. We hardly have any department stores left where I live. Happy New Year. judi
Comment Written 29-May-2020
reply by the author on 30-May-2020
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Thanks for the memories! Cheers. LIZ
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You're very welcome. Have a great Sunday. judi