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I FORGIVE YOU!
Last night, my 12-year-old son Jonathan was playing with my sister Anna’s kids, Jack, age 4, and Jenna, age 5. Jack is fascinated with “big boys” and he had teamed up with Jonathan to guard the playground castle. “No girls are allowed in here, right Jonafan?” said Jack. However, as two-year-old Julia toddled into the [...]
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1- Factories fascinate me. 2- I was the most monstrous pregnant person ever- 12 years ago today! 3- I qualified for food stamps at that time. 4- I received food stamps and had to go to nutrition classes to keep getting them. 5- I felt like a loser on government assistance. 6- I wasn’t one, [...]
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“Ya’ can’t let cancer ruin your day,” says James Birrell, an eight year old who recently died from a neuroblastoma. I’ve had the privilege to share part of the journey to death with another family whose daughter also died from this kind of brain cancer. Here’s what people have said about James’ journey of joy [...]
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Raising Your Odds for Joy
Okay, so I’m doing Mike Mason’s challenge to “fast” from depression. (See the book Champagne for the Soul.) However, given my bent toward depression, I sometimes have to acknowledge the metaphorical rain clouds when they begin to roll in. Whenever depression starts crawling over me, I’m trying to learn to address it in a healthy [...]
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“Shut Up” and Enjoy It
I was riding in the car with my six-year-old daughter and she said, “Mom, I know the word ’shut up’ is a really bad word, but saying it just feels like a massage to my mouth. I don’t say it to be mean at all, but I say the words ’shut up’ and my mouth [...]
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Savoring the Incompatibility
I have always been a fan of Sesame Street, especially Ernie and Bert. Lately I was watching some of my old favorite skits and this one grabbed my attention. I’ve been thinking about accepting differences in other people without attaching negative stigmas to them. How easy would it be for Ernie and Bert to use [...]
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The Piñata of Doom
I will never forget my first day of wedded mortification. We got married at the ripe old age of 20, so people weren’t quite sure whether we were ready to tackle adult topics or not, even though we assured them we were. Apparently not! Like everyone, we we spent the first night after our wedding [...]
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Cats, Dogs, and Enjoying Today
The Champagne for the Soul challenge update- one week of joy. Mike Mason’s challenge was to choose joy intentionally rather than default to depression. Well, I’m ashamed to say I actually suffered withdrawals from going off depression.;-) Two things have stood out to me this week about the state of mind. One I learned from [...]
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The Failing Façade
Have you ever been caught in a massive lie? Or perhaps worse, realized you’ve been lying to yourself and it has wreaked havoc on your life? When I was in high school, I was enjoying semi-dating relationship with a college guy I’ll call James. Yeah, that’s his real name. Anyway, he would call and [...]
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