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Life and Living
You know the saying: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Read more
Life Lessons Learned
When you live long enough, you learn a lot. Experience is a great teacher. I don’t claim to be an authority on anything, especially life. Life is complicated. It takes you on a wild ride and likes to throw wicked curves. We all know about those wicked curves. They are the detours—the disappointments, drama, and heartache—that knock...
read moreStarting Fresh in the New Year
Every year, January brings renewed optimism for change, for a better life, for a better you. And that’s a wonderful thing. It’s wonderful because this fresh start gives us a chance to reinvent our lives and ourselves. It allows us to reinvigorate ourselves, to shed the baggage of the previous year, and do anything. Anything is...
read moreSticking to New Year’s Resolutions
While I love the optimism of New Year’s resolutions, the enthusiasm and hope often fades within weeks; and my efforts at self-improvement come to a whimpering end. Let’s face it—most of us fail when it comes to sticking to resolutions. Yet, we are eternally hopeful when the New Year comes around believing, without any credible evidence,...
read moreResolutions Worth Making
New Year resolutions come and go; but the voice inside my head, telling me to make changes, is fairly constant. Through the years I’ve learned it’s unrealistic to aim high. Lofty resolutions are seldom kept. It’s better to choose something you would like to improve, keep it simple, and focus all of your energies on it. If you...
read moreBe Mindful During the Holidays
The holidays are a busy and stressful time for most people. With work, gift shopping, get-togethers, and all kinds of other events and worries, it’s a wonder we stay sane at all. The secret to survival and, in fact, to having a wonderful time during these holidays and any stressful situation is to stay in the moment as much as possible. This is...
read moreLearning to Fly Solo
A mom knows her baby birds will one day fly away. It’s a fact of life—when the time is right, the young leave the nest. It’s just so hard to let go. “You have the house and the white picket fence. The mini-van is parked in the garage, and every room in your home is filled with the colors of childhood. You spend your...
read moreTentra Nepalese Totem
You may have seen this “Tentra Nepalese Totem” before. Every now and then, it (or a variation of it) pops up in email, on Facebook, or can be found at inspirational sites around the web. During the summer of 2002, it was being circulated widely as a chain email with promises of good luck to all who passed it on. At the time, it was...
read moreLife and Living
You know the old saying: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. It’s relatively easy to be positive, motivated and engaged when all is going well. It’s not quite so easy to have that Pollyanna attitude when life gets tough and things turn sour. We all know about those wicked curves. They are the detours—the disappointments,...
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Our Empty Nest! We are a couple of baby boomers who happen to love love LOVE life. We're over the proverbial hill, but still have a lot of living to do. With our children grown and on their own, it's just the two of us. We've downsized to a smaller house on a lake; and now it's time to travel a little, laugh a lot, sit back, and enjoy the simple pleasures life has to offer. Read more
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