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Where Are Your Priorities?
I spent last week camping with my family. Received a cryptic email from my next-door neighbor – Call me! All I could do was mentally kick myself for leaving my laptop at home. That was my worst-case...
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Finding Adventure in the In-Between
I hate waiting. I will go without if it means waiting in a long line. I would rather be 2 minutes late than be early and have to wait. I don’t do amusement parks. lol I hated being pregnant because I...
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This One’s For The Girls
What is beauty? I know how society defines beauty: an arbitrary collection of attributes, inches and numbers often a result of genetics and youth, and often maintained through extreme dieting and...
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How’s Your Summer Checklist?
I’m all about living on purpose. I often set small and large goals for myself, goals that stretch me but are achievable. I’ve never expected my kids to do much beyond hang out and be kids during summer...
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I Did Not Marry My One True Love
The hubs and I are celebrating 16 years of marriage (to each other) this week. I do not believe he’s my ‘one true love’ and not because he leaves his socks on the floor and seems incapable of closing a...
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A Contest Changed My Life
Hard to believe, right? Winning a single contest could change the path of your life so irreversibly, but it did. Like most writers, I grew up wanting to be a writer and for a number of what seemed like...
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Cropping Out Regret
It’s September. Scary, right. September brings with it a rush of feelings — anticipation, anxiety, change…regret. That last one always gets me. I look back over the fleeting summer months and think:...
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Seeking Everyday UnCommon Adventure
Mom – let’s go for a walk. Please – I want to take pictures of the snow. I stare at my computer screen. I have several deadlines looming — but it’s so beautiful outside. I’m not very good at resisting...
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Searching For Greater Intimacy
What’s your story? Your life story. Do you see yourself as the hero/heroine of your own story? I’m beginning to. I think. A few weeks ago it happened again: panic attack. In the aftermath, I spent two...
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Lavishing Time and Love
I wanted to share a story with you about a mamma I met this week. It was told to me off the record, so I don’t feel I should share this woman’s name or face. She’s a refugee from Syria who lives in my...
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