GraceWrites: December 2008

Posted on 1:01 PM

By Grace Lim at 1:01 PM

What would you do if you rummaged around the kids' toy shelf and found this book and three balls?
And you read: "If you have dedication and ten free minutes a day for a week, you can join the millions who have learned to juggle."

Well, you'd naturally think, as I did, this thought: Hey, I have gobs of dedication and I have 10 free minutes a day.

See what happens when you have gobs and time.

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Posted on 12:52 PM

Winning Christmas and a Holiday Haiku for You (yes, you!)

By Grace Lim at 12:52 PM

I'm been talking about winning Christmas for a while now. This year my friends JJ, "Heidi" and I decided to forgo the consumerism, the excess of holiday gift-giving and give each other something from truly from the heart -- Holiday Haikus!

I'm totally going to win Christmas this year with these personalized haikus.

To JJ:
A woman so rare
like the bone-in rib-eye at
Lombardi’s Steakhouse.

To Heidi:
Finds treasures in junk
Sees beauty where there is none
World, meet My Sergei.

Now, my Holiday Haikus to you:

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Posted on 12:46 PM

Do You Hear What I Hear/7 Question With...

By Grace Lim at 12:46 PM

7 Questions with the Woman

who got the World to Stop Mumbling Around Me

(and a bonus joke, too)

Now let's hear it from the woman who gently, but firmly, showed me that the world wasn't conspiring to mumble around me. In my Q & A with Candy McGinnis Dahl, a long-time audiologist in the Fox Valley, she debunks a hearing loss myth, tells an audiology joke and mulls the tree falling in the forest question. (See previous post GraceWrites on Lessons Learned from World of Hearing and When the Whole World Mumbles in the New York Times Well health column.)

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Posted on 4:53 PM

GraceWrites on Lessons Learned from World of Hearing

By Grace Lim at 4:53 PM

For the past month, I've been hearing the world anew. Are you thinking, Did GW finally stop her own filibuster and allow others to chime in? Nah....that'd be ludicrous.

Nope, turns out that I am hearing impaired, and I need hearing aids. Read my essay When the Whole World Mumbles in the New York Times Well health column.

What have I learned since I entered the world of better hearing? Click here to read rest of post.