It Ain’t Easy to Be a Hooker in Alaska: How Reality TV Can Save Your Day:

Dateline: Threadgill’s Branch Office. Under Farrah’s picture. It Ain’t Easy to Be a Hooker in Alaska: How Reality TV Can Save Your Day MysteryShrink is about what works and what doesn’t work–usually whatever therapy is covered by your insurance. Thus, I must share a breakthrough treatment. And, nuuuuuu. No credit …

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And I Thought I Was Bad, The Secret Hoarding Waitress Incident

Dateline: IHOP, West Ft. Worth. The following conversation is taking place behind me. Irritable Woman to Waitress: “I want an answer and I want it now!” Waitress: “Sure. How can I help you?” IW: “I want to know why that guy who came in after we did already has his food …

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Addiction, It Takes Two…Stress and Addiction, Final Episode

Dateline: San Antonio River Walk Patio Branch Office. Jennifer Lopez stood on the nearby bridge during the making of Selena. If you are new the story of Mr. and Mrs. Travis, Catch up with Episode One, Episode Two, and Episode Three. When the next football season came around, Mrs. Travis …

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Stress, the “It’s Just Thunder” Incident

Relationship Stress and the “It’s Just Thunder” Incident I’m Okay and You’re Okay… as Long as I’m With You– Dateline: Willie’s Roadhouse, Truck Stop Cafe in Abott, Texas. And, yes, the chicken-fried steaks lap over the edges of the plate. Note: This entry, along with the next introduce the series: “Las Vegas …

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Stress. When Does Breaking Free of ‘Group Think’ Just Being Rude?

Stress. When Does Breaking Free of ‘Group Think’ Just Being Annoying? Stress relieving entry in progress on rudeness vs. independent thinking. Dateline:  Cabo San Jose, Baja California, Mexico. Pirates lived here.  Pirates live in the U.S., too. Before we let a teenager convince us that tattoos are her way of …

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Stress and Doing Your Own Thinking

Immediate Stress Relief: Join a Gang… Dateline:  Stress in a New Mexico Maximum Security Prison, via television. Where would any of us end up if–during those needy barely adolescent years—we had no sense of self and no sense of a future?  And we were offered both for the mere orice of …

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