For the love of cars

October 13, 2025
love-of-cars
There’s a certain poetry in the way a car hums beneath your hands—that low, purring promise of motion and freedom. Some people say it’s just metal and rubber,...
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The trap of streaming content all day

October 9, 2025
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It starts innocently enough.  A rainy afternoon, a comfy couch, and “just one episode” of a feel-good series everyone’s talking about. I wrote about it...
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4 Comments · Blog, Healthy Living, Inspiration

Life after disability: can it be a new kind of wholeness?

October 7, 2025
life-after-disability
We’re not always prepared for the ways life shifts. One day, we move through the world as we always have—walking with ease, using our hands without thinking,...
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Practical ways to fight depression

October 3, 2025
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How to Fight Depression: A Compassionate Guide for the Journey Depression isn’t just sadness. It’s a heavy fog that can roll into our lives and cloud everything we...
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How to avoid a trip and fall

September 29, 2025
trip-and-fall
I've been lucky. I've taken at least three falls during which I could have been hurt and wasn't. So it's made me aware of the tripping hazards all around me. That's...
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When they don’t read the room

September 18, 2025
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I've run across a number of cringeworthy situations recently where people fail to "read the room." What does that mean? It means understanding the vibe of the...
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6 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Opinion

As summer draws to a close

September 12, 2025
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When the sun slips away and summer draws to a close, I get nostalgic, don't you? It happens quietly at first. The light changes — not dramatically, but in a way...
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How many chances should we give people?

September 9, 2025
how-many-chances
We want to believe in second chances. We need to believe in them.  In fact, I want second chances, myself. And sometimes, I want third and fourth. Yep, that many in a...
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Seen in the wild

September 1, 2025
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Take a little walk in your neighborhood ...you might be surprised at what you'll find! Here's some of what we've seen in the wild this summer. A fairy garden in...
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A life and a death

August 18, 2025
death
A longtime Facebook friend died the day I'm writing this and her death was unusually impactful. I felt like I knew her pretty well, although we’d never actually...
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