self esteem | self esteem
May.02.2013
"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.” Mae West
From the time we are born until we take our last breath humans desire to be noticed and affirmed by others. As infants we crave and...
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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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Aug.06.2012
I can’t get used to school beginning in the beginning of August instead of the end. Does anyone know why? Is it because of air conditioning? I don’t think the number of days in the school year have been increased, or have they? I guess the old-fashioned calendar that allowed...
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Jun.14.2012
Speaking from experience it is hard for a parent to understand just how fast their children specially daughters grow up these days, more than that with all the pressure children and teens have on them from school, TV and the internet it is even harder for a parent to understand just what their...
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Mar.13.2012
A few days ago, I was told something that was so insulting, so unbelievably insensitive -- that my ego literally popped. The insult was vile on it's own, but the idea that a person would say something so potentially damaging to another was beyond me. Somehow, I immediately knew that it wasn't...
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Feb.06.2012
My mother's bathroom had a great mirror; made me and the six other women in the family look ten pounds thinner. I hadn't known it worked for others until I mentioned it to my nieces. Before that, I had wishfully thought I was a little slimmer. We still laugh about that mirror. Some movie theaters...
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Oct.26.2011
Good morning, Dear friends, and Happy Story Day, Wednesday.
As I get ready this morning for a day in my office, my mind is screaming with a newly realized wisdom on the incurable disease that is prominent in the masculine gender - Boy Dumb.
Yes, friends, boy-dumb is most likely incurable; we have...
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Jul.13.2011
The question was....
How's it hanging? Write about something hanging in your closet you've had for a long time. Write what memories you associate with that item.
a friend asked
at first i was stumped because to be honest....most of my closet is filled with junk i can't fit anywhere else but...
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Mar.06.2011
Yesterday I got a call from my daughter. She thought she was in labor—but couldn’t be sure. I had agreed to come and take care of her nearly 3-year old son, Kaden during the at home water birth. I had planned to head to Lincoln, NE in a day or two anyway, so I packed my things and headed down...
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Mar.04.2011
Self-esteem is a perennial problem for the mentally ill. We have to live our lives at a different pace from the mainstream, with generally scaled-down goals, and sometimes it is impossible not to feel “less than.” In addition, it’s my sneaking suspicion that we just have to spend more time than...
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