It really IS all about the consequences

December 27, 2022
consequences
I haven't always made the best decisions in my life. Not the best decisions for me OR the best decisions, period. So let me make that perfectly clear. Also, I do...
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8 Comments · Opinion, Spirituality

When is a chance one too many chances?

October 24, 2022
chances
Too many chances. Do I give people too many chances? I wonder, sometimes. I forgive easily. Do not hold grudges. Do not mind starting over with...
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10 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Spirituality

On this day, 50 years ago

July 15, 2022
50-years
It wasn't unusual 50 years ago to see this Oldsmobile Cutlass on the road. What is an Oldsmobile, you ask? It was a division of General Motors and its last car came...
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12 Comments · Blog, Inspiration, Soul School, Spirituality

Has your heart been broken?

June 28, 2022
Has your heart been broken? If it has, my own heart goes out to you. I know what it feels like: I didn't reach my advanced age without an arrow or two to my own...
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2 Comments · Blog, Inspiration

Sweeping up the pieces of a broken heart

January 27, 2022
heartbreak
In most of the novels I've read about men leaving their wives, the spurned wife with a broken heart wants to kill herself. It says a lot about me that when my...
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10 Comments · Blog

Why I no longer twist like a pretzel

October 6, 2021
twist-like-a-pretzel
There was a day when I'd knock myself out trying to make a friendship or relationship work. Twist like a pretzel. Oh, the life contortions I was willing to make, the...
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18 Comments · Blog

Why you should run fast as you can from someone who withhol

July 19, 2021
withholding
If you approach others with an open heart, you may not be familiar with the concept of withholding.  It's a pretty diabolical relationship dynamic and a big red flag...
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6 Comments · Blog

Everything to me. Or not.

April 10, 2017
"I have many “spouses”–men and woman who are there for me in ways my husband simply cannot possibly be. I love him, but he is not everything to me, and if I...
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36 Comments · Blog

Letting it all hang out

January 4, 2017
There's good writing advice and there's bad writing advice. So let's talk about that. I know a lot of bloggers and some writers who quote writer Anne LaMott, who...
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58 Comments · Blog

When apologies are not really apologies

October 14, 2016
apology
Have you ever heard one of those apologies that are really not an apology at all? Like this one: I'm sorry you feel that way. I'm all for sincere apologies. But...
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31 Comments · Blog

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