Tag: Life Lessons
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Save Time and Love Longer
There once was a music storyteller named Jim Croce. He sang about saving time in a bottle so that he could spend eternity with his “you”. He told of how there never seems to be enough time to do the things that you want to do once you find them. In this hurry-scurry life, we […]
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Life is Not Always Nice
Photo by Ryan Franco on Unsplash I am so over the whining. Everywhere I go humans are complaining. Oh, poor me. Life isn’t fair. They are lamenting about jobs, family issues, politics, climate, food prices…on and on….negativity is spreading among us like wildfire on a dry hot California mountain. Passing from one person to the next. […]
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Check This Out
I find the phrase, “Check this out” problematic for me, though I say it all the time. To be fair, I am a librarian by day which involves checking of books in and out all day long. It is part of what we in the business call, library lingo. Particular words that mean one thing […]
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Do You Miss Being a Kid?
Facebook Fodder I wonder how many of us really miss being a kid. If we look at what it is that we really miss and compare it to our daily lives, maybe it isn’t being a kid that we miss. Sure, for most of us childhood was a mixture of fun and worry. I had […]
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What I Want to Say
or maybe I shouldn’t say… Here is a list of things I want to say…maybe I shouldn’t say them. Come on! I know there are things you wish you could just say sometimes and don’t for whatever reason….right? I am not the only one….I can’t be…Well anyway, here it goes… I am so tired of […]
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A Step Mother’s Manifesto
This is in part a public promise to my family and a soapbox stand for anyone who wants the right to love your spouse’s children. Why is it that the stepmother is portrayed as the evil one in the fairy tale? That is often the furthest from the truth of reality. Most stepmothers want only […]
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Don’t Apologize for Being Happy
“green coconut tree during daytime” by Jorge Vasconez on Unsplash I have an amazing life. It is full of love and happiness. No I am not wealthy. I often have very little in my checking account. I am not famous, at least not yet, however, I keep writing what I want to write. I live in […]
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How to Get Rid of Anxiety
It’s easy. Really it is easy. I know, because I did it. I got rid of all my anxiety and most of my overthinking in a little less than a year. It is a work in progress. First I am no doctor. I don’t even pretend to have all the answers. I can tell you […]
A Transpicuous Life 