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Jun.17.2013
"I have been trying to figure out why writing is such a glorious experience with you and such a disappointment for me with others. It has a great deal to do with you -- kindness, intelligence, compassion -- but I also knew it was something you knew about writing that others didn't. I came...
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May.12.2013
“Mama always said there's an awful lot you can tell about a person by their shoes. Where they're going, where they've been. I've worn lots of shoes. I bet if I think about it real hard, I could remember my first pair of shoes. Mama said they'd take me anywhere. She said they was my magic shoes."...
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Mar.28.2013
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is telling young women to Lean In to corporate America, to “take a seat at the table,” “join the conversation.” She worries that we have put ourselves on the ‘mommy track,’ often before we’re even dating. She posits that a lack of confidence and ambition has led to the...
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Jan.27.2013
I’m not quite 50 yet but it feels like my life is starting anew.
Finally, I am packed with self-confidence and courage to launch my new life career.
For a time now I’ve been quietly studying, counseling, coaching and volunteering.
I was uncertain about putting the “new me” out there for fear of...
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Jan.05.2013
We are not born with low self-esteem. Look at any child during the first 18 months of their life. They are giggly, they respond to smiles, to their name and other words that are now a part of their life; they learn to walk, to drink out of a bottle, eat with a spoon, burst into laughter, and a...
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Dec.11.2012
Yesterday, I was standing in a long line of people when directly behind me I hear, “Oh my gawd!! You are HUGE!”
I turned around, tilted my head downward to where the vertically challenged, twenty-something male was standing and said, “Why yes, Gollum, I can see why you’d think so.”
Apparently,...
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Dec.02.2012
It's a chippy day that feel on the verge of ice. The night's storms have slipped away, leaving their notes on what they've done strewn around as evidence, unafraid of who they are and what they achieved.
I admire the storms' confidence. They don't shy from they nature.
Crisp bacon and...
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Oct.12.2012
I do not know who said it but it is full of wisdom: “I envy the tree, how it reaches but never holds.”
For as long as I can remember, something in me has reached for the heavens. I’d like to think it is the Divine spark within me and maybe it is. However, I’m also aware that the whole of my life...
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Oct.02.2012
Another good day. I'm in that writing - working - living zone where all goes well and I enjoy everything.
Now -
Down in my brain's city is a little man walking around and grumbling. A sour fellow, he predicts, "This won't last. It's going to end. It always does. Life is going to slap you ignorant,...
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Mar.23.2012
I met with my writer's social group last night. Only one other could make it so there was just the two of us, Becky and me.
I had decided to try a new place this social so we met at "The Playwright." I had two pints of Guinness and she drank Merlot. I also had an excellent hamburger, covered...
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