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The art of allowing

I’d like to share my thoughts on an article on Oprah.com by Mike Robbins and then post the entire article here so anybody, including myself, can read it anytime.  It is about the art of allowing. In 1989 (wow that is a long time ago) after my first divorce, I attended a week long personal [...]

The peace of a baby

I babysat for my three month old grandson yesterday on my day off while his mother, my stepdaughter, went to work to talk about when she will return from maternity leave.  It is her desire to return only 3 days a week.  I’m so happy for her that she has made that decision as this [...]

Mother’s Day 2010

I’m  in a bit of an odd space today and debated with myself about whether I should blog today or not.  I will try not to be down but feel like as my book shows all of me both good and bad, this blog should also be an honest portrait of my life and my [...]

10 Life Lessons You Should Unlearn

This is an article written by Martha Beck – Life Coach on Oprah.com.  I shared it on facebook yesterday and decided it was worthy of being a permanent edition to my blog.  I particularly like the ending: “Live your truth, losses be damned. Just like that, your heart and soul will return home.”  I believe that [...]

Ideas for romance and love

This blog entry is compliments of my friend Susanne Jorgensen www.TheSinglesGym.com who put the following in her latest newsletter.  It isn’t just for single people, this is good stuff for the long time married as well!  Here’s Susanne…. “I recently pulled a book off my shelf that I haven’t looked at for awhile, 1001 Ways [...]

The path of forgiveness

I haven’t written since April 19th when I wrote about the day my mother almost died.  Anybody reading this may want to read that blog as well to know what happened.  She is now in a nursing home for 3 weeks of rehabilitation.  Apparently this is free from medicare after spending more than 3 days [...]

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