Tag: mental health
Am I the Mad Hatter?
In Alice in Wonderland, author Lewis Carroll depicts the Hatter as strange, erratic and...
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My Goals for 2023 (New Year’s Resolutions?)
Let’s be honest. New year’s resolutions have, let’s say, a bit of a troubled...
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My 2022 Goals: A Mid-Year Check-In
If I had to describe my relationship status with goals, I’d have to go with...
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The Deceptive Cruelty of Not Enough Time
Believe me. The irony is not lost on me that I’m finally getting around to writing this blog...
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Temperament and Temperate Climes (Sonnet Sunday)
When I think about how I might describeMy life these days, my emotional stateI feel guilty with...
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Andrew Yang on Our Unhealthy Social Media Diet (Sunday Snippet)
In a TED talk, the technologist J. P. Rangaswami compared the information we consume to a diet. A...
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Why Do Grown-Ups Get So Much Screen Time?
According to the Canadian Paediatric Society, children under the age of two should have zero...
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On the Fear of Missing Out on What I Still Need to Do
What does it mean to be happy? And what does it take to get there? I feel like, on some level, to...
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A Look Ahead: My Goals for 2022
I feel it’s important to always have goals in your life. Even if you never quite achieve...
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Retrospective: 2021 Habits and Goals
At the beginning of last year, I decided on a series of good habits I wanted to form as my...
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Navigating Another Uncertain Pandemic Christmas
Isolation. Uncertainty. Simultaneous overwhelm and monotony. There are all kinds of words we can...
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Five Key Lessons From My 30s
Tomorrow marks a beginning. It also marks an end. You see, I start the final year of my 30s...
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Hi, I'm Michael. By day, I'm a writer and editor. By night, I'm still a writer and editor. I'm also an engaged work-at-home dad, a voracious foodie, an avid traveler, and a thinker who thinks he might be thinking too much. Beyond the Rhetoric is a reflection of my eclectic life, fueled by caffeine and Wi-Fi.
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