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I Gave Up Drinking for Lent—and Here Are the 5 Things I Learned

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So as Lent approached, I tossed around the idea of giving up alcohol. I didn’t need to give it up, but I was curious as to what would happen if I did, just for a few weeks. What I gained by giving up alcohol for Lent These are five perks I experienced from giving up alcohol for 47 (long) days: 1. Probably for the best.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. Best practices for standing up for yourself. I apologized.

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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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My 10-year-old brother loved hotels, and nothing made him as happy as relaxing on a big comfy bed and cranking up the TV. My dad has always enjoyed days spent swimming in the ocean, followed by hearty dinners at nice restaurants. Looking back, I resisted growing up at nearly every turn. At least my 10-year-old brother was happy.

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This 27-Year-Old Left a Promising Architecture Career to Revamp Her Family’s Struggling Hotel Business

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A miner by trade, Papa Lance acquired the property in 1993 after he gave up his career mining silver and took over the inn from owner Sam Brooks. When I wasn’t waiting tables or… learning about all these customers, I was exploring this building,” Nelson explains. There had been no money put back into the hotel.”

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Nikki Guard and Her Team of Culinary Queens Lead the Charge at Denver’s Guard and Grace

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At the helm is Nikki Guard, a seasoned veteran in the restaurant industry and the co-owner and beverage director of TAG Restaurant Group , which she operates alongside her husband, co-owner and executive chef Troy Guard. From there, she worked her way up to becoming a server, bartender and cocktail waitress in Las Vegas.

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David Altizer Makes His Living Creating Thumbnails for YouTube

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David Altizer is a YouTube thumbnail creator for YouTubers like Max Fosh , Kurtis Connor and Jeff Wittek , and he is working on a website where people can go to learn how to do what he does. Then it’ll just start to spit up and generate stuff using Dali. He even met his wife at a restaurant where he performed. “As

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How Churchill Northern Studies Centre Is Bringing Food Sovereignty to the Arctic North

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These cater to the project’s Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) subscribers, local restaurants and grocery stores, ensuring a steady source of locally grown organic produce. It’s an educational tool to learn how to seed properly [and] how to grow your own food… in your own home,” McCart explains.