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The Face of Your Business, Part I

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A Tale of Self Love

It’s Monday morning. This morning I choose to start my week off with a little dose of love. Love for myself that is. I have in the oven a happy, cozy smelling batch of muffins. Never mind the fact that they are chocolate chip muffins! So perhaps this form of love is a dose of comfort food instead of Рыбалка в Московская область health food. There are many different ways to love.

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Record Inflation and Added Life Stress

You’ve seen the latest reports. The news says “inflation hit a record high, due to rises in gas prices from the hurricanes.” It can be very stressful when we start thinking about the “ripple” effect this may cause in the economy and maybe a rise in prices of all the things we buy.

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