When our cultural icons die

September 7, 2026
cultural-icons
As I write this we’ve just lost both Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem, two women who helped shape our generation. Why do I feel such grief? It hits differently when a cultural icon dies. The grief can seem strangely disproportionate to the relationship we actually had with them. We had...
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6 Comments · Inspiration, Opinion, Spirituality

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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18 Comments · Blog, Reviews

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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30 Comments · Blog

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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33 Comments · Blog

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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32 Comments · Blog

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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26 Comments · Blog

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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9 Comments · Blog

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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15 Comments · Blog

The internet of ugliness

April 17, 2015
It's been one of those months where I've seen the best of people online--and the worst of them, too. I wish I could say I'd lived long enough to be un-shockable, to...
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25 Comments · Blog

How do you cope with loss?

April 16, 2015
Is it me, or is there a pall hanging in the air right now? I'm looking for something good, but I don't see anything but sadness. ~a friend When he asked me that...
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