December 2008

When I was a little girl, my sister and I had magical Christmas’s. There were just my parents, my sister, and myself - it was us against the world. As I started my family, I tried very hard to create the same magic and I think I was successful for the most part. We didn’t [...]

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I am a huge believer in gratitude. There are always things we want (perhaps even need) but if we focus on what we have rather than what we don’t, we are much happier people. No one has a perfect life - that wouldn’t be much of a challenge, would it?
Here is something I [...]

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Recently while pursuing some much needed psychotherapy on how to manage my relationships with my grown children, my therapist started by identifying that in life there are givers and takers and if you haven’t already guessed, I’m a serious - perhaps terminal giver.
I always thought giving was a good thing but I soon learned that [...]

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I am a natural brunette (almost black). My family are all prematurely grey. I started getting grey at 19 and by the time I was 24 I started dying my hair. I dyed my hair every 28 days from then on. In my forties I realized that at some point I would [...]

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I realized a few years ago when my alarm clock would go off, the headlines for the news would come on. Before I had a chance to start my day or even put my feet on the ground I allowed myself to be bombarded with the atrocities that people do to each other plus [...]

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I read this in an obituary several years ago and it spoke to me. I hope for those of you who have lost your Mothers, that something in this verse will comfort you.
Your Mother is always with you.
She’s the whisper of the leaves as you walk down the street.
She’s the smell [...]

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