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Eye Exam Anxiety: Why This High-Stakes Test Feels Like a Midlife SAT

Lisa Beach   June 1, 2016   7 Comments on Eye Exam Anxiety: Why This High-Stakes Test Feels Like a Midlife SAT
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When I took the SAT back in the 1980s, I prepped for weeks, felt like a bundle of nerves on test day and sweated the results afterward, knowing these scores would determine my future. Thanks to the SAT, all my intellectual insecurities bubbled to the surface. Would I get in my first-choice college? Would I win any scholarships? Would I be… Read more »

BOOM. I’ve Got a Full-Blown Case of Middle Age

Lisa Beach   September 25, 2015   8 Comments on BOOM. I’ve Got a Full-Blown Case of Middle Age
full-blown case of middle age

From hair loss to heel spurs, middle age can slowly ravage your body from head to toe. It all starts innocently enough, with a suspicious mole here and a high-cholesterol count there, here a pound, there a pound, everywhere a pound, pound. At first, I barely even noticed the small, sporadic changes that began to crop up – the stray… Read more »