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6 min

That Time You Told a Sunrise Lie -- How to Get ‘Er Done and Hit the Wall

I didn’t even attempt to make the promise, not to save face, but because I knew it was a lie. But not just any lie. A sunrise lie.

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That Time You Were Extraordinarily Ordinary -- How to Wait Like a Winner

Annie D. Stutley

Jan 9
7 min

That Time You Were Extraordinarily Ordinary -- How to Wait Like a Winner

It’s a fact of life I’m only just now able to understand and, frankly, come to peace with.

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That Time You Were a Stump -- Boundaries and "The Giving Tree"

Annie D. Stutley

Dec 5, 2020
7 min

That Time You Were a Stump -- Boundaries and "The Giving Tree"

Is it a story of generosity and unconditional love, or (and I truly hate to ask this) is the giving tree an enabler and a chump?

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That Time You Were a Spectacle -- Why that broken grocery cart is so confident

Annie D. Stutley

Nov 23, 2020
7 min

That Time You Were a Spectacle -- Why that broken grocery cart is so confident

I never intentionally choose the crappy grocery cart. Who does?

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That Time You Earned the Top Score -- When life falls in pieces, where goes your plan?

Annie D. Stutley

Nov 13, 2020
7 min

That Time You Earned the Top Score -- When life falls in pieces, where goes your plan?

I really shouldn’t be surprised that a game about creating order from chaos is what interests me.

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That Time You Were the Light--What’s left in a broken world?

Annie D. Stutley

Oct 16, 2020
4 min

That Time You Were the Light--What’s left in a broken world?

Does the world have nothing good to offer?

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That Time You Held Your Tongue -- The Fruit of Shutting Up

Annie D. Stutley

Oct 10, 2020
7 min

That Time You Held Your Tongue -- The Fruit of Shutting Up

But is it necessary to always be heard, or is there something to be said (pun intended) for shutting up?

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That Time You Were Prudent -- The New Mythology

Annie D. Stutley

Oct 3, 2020
8 min

That Time You Were Prudent -- The New Mythology

How blessed was I to believe blindly as a child. How blessed am I today to believe with discernment!

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That Time You Cleaned Up -- "It’s not what you LOOK like. It’s what you DO like."

Annie D. Stutley

Sep 25, 2020
7 min

That Time You Cleaned Up -- "It’s not what you LOOK like. It’s what you DO like."

I needed to give the impression that we were an ideal candidate, not just clean, but desirable.

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That Time You Changed Things Up -- The phrase you didn’t know you needed to hear

Annie D. Stutley

Sep 18, 2020
4 min

That Time You Changed Things Up -- The phrase you didn’t know you needed to hear

We’re still not sure what the phrase actually meant at its origin. The words are entirely contradictory.

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That Time You Read the Bold Print, or 7 Awesome Dance Workouts and 1500 Other Words You Won't Read

Annie D. Stutley

Sep 11, 2020
8 min

That Time You Read the Bold Print, or 7 Awesome Dance Workouts and 1500 Other Words You Won't Read

In the history of this little blog that could, I have written three lists. Until today.

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That Time You Knew Enough -- Coming-of-age as told by a mother for her daughter

Annie D. Stutley

Aug 20, 2020
6 min

That Time You Knew Enough -- Coming-of-age as told by a mother for her daughter

I can’t help but ask if she’s setting herself up for just another one of life’s manipulative phases...

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That Time You Learned Your Lesson -- Free will...friend or foe?

Annie D. Stutley

Aug 14, 2020
7 min

That Time You Learned Your Lesson -- Free will...friend or foe?

But I was doomed. And that became the day I learned what “guilty by association” meant.

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That Time Your Middle Finger Saved the World -- Your hand in ending a soapbox society

Annie D. Stutley

Jul 17, 2020
7 min

That Time Your Middle Finger Saved the World -- Your hand in ending a soapbox society

They were exhausted, close to hating each other, and definitely plotting my demise -- presumably by way of a rabid guinea pig.

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That Time You Didn’t Force It -- A father’s advice in the midst of a nightmare

Annie D. Stutley

Jun 26, 2020
7 min

That Time You Didn’t Force It -- A father’s advice in the midst of a nightmare

The three words that pulled me from a chronic nightmare

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That Time You Went Rogue -- It’s not the destination, Kid. It’s the journey.

Annie D. Stutley

Jun 17, 2020
8 min

That Time You Went Rogue -- It’s not the destination, Kid. It’s the journey.

Some of us are visionaries. And some of us are visionary overlords.

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That Time You Fell Down the Rabbit Hole -- When being yourself is the thrill of a lifetime

Annie D. Stutley

Jun 5, 2020
6 min

That Time You Fell Down the Rabbit Hole -- When being yourself is the thrill of a lifetime

I wanted to be different because at the crux of every phase was the truth that I didn’t really know who I was enough to “be myself.”

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That Time You Were the Omega Dog -- What humans can learn from pack mentality

Annie D. Stutley

May 29, 2020
8 min

That Time You Were the Omega Dog -- What humans can learn from pack mentality

Maybe wolves and dogs aren’t assholes after all. Maybe they’re more like the rest of us?

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That Time You Made “The Face” -- Why we can’t accept compliments

Annie D. Stutley

May 21, 2020
7 min

That Time You Made “The Face” -- Why we can’t accept compliments

When did a compliment go from fabulous to icky?

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That Time You Still Gave May the Middle Finger -- When 2020 hands us its beer

Annie D. Stutley

May 13, 2020
9 min

That Time You Still Gave May the Middle Finger -- When 2020 hands us its beer

The following is a Tale of Two Mays….

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