A personal story about gender identity issues

April 27, 2015
It was the early 1990s and I was doing volunteer work for an organization that provided services to people with HIV and AIDs. What we did was something called "emotional...
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Years are getting shorter

April 26, 2015
years-are-shorter
Don't they? I got a text the other day from a 40-something mom I know whose daughter was about to turn 17.  She said: "I always say about raising kids that days are...
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Sinatra: he stepped up

April 25, 2015
My mother was a bobby-soxer back her day and Frank Sinatra was her favorite artist. He was adulated by teens in the 1940s --oh, that voice, like velvet-- and my mother...
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Pacifica Beauty giveaway today!

April 24, 2015
Every so often I fall deeply in love with a product line and when I’m lucky enough to be able to do a giveaway for that brand, it’s even better. Purify Coconut...
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Fools rush in

April 23, 2015
The other day I opened a message from a daily inspirational message service to find this: It's no accident, Carol, that your courage often overrides  your common...
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What can parents do about mean girls?

April 22, 2015
This began as a post about saying goodbye and then morphed into one about mean girls. I don't think that's an accident. The stories in Dumped, Women Unfriending Women...
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Passing down digital assets

April 21, 2015
Now that I don't work outside the home, the calendar has a different, more casual function. It's more like...well, guidance.  Sure, there are some hard and fast...
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Not my problem

April 20, 2015
not-my-problem
I like to think I'm pretty evolved at this age, but then again, things happen that remind me I'm still a work in progress and I'm likely to still be a work in progress...
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Slice of life

April 19, 2015
You really must excuse me for taking a departure from more high-minded topics and letting you inside my world and maybe even the scary place I call my  head. For just a...
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8 ways to develop patience

April 18, 2015
Patience is so not my strong suit. The ability to not be thrown when life's events, small and large, irritate or upset. To wait. To forbear.  No, I do not go gently...
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