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Jan.09.2013
“Patience is not passive waiting.
Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.”
~Ray Davis
For as long as I can remember, setting goals has been my way of life.
Some of my earliest remembrances of setting goals centered on learning the alphabet, my numbers...
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Jan.08.2013
The internet is a virtual reading buffet. Whatever your interest, somebody is probably blogging about it.
Because there's so much out there, sometimes it's hard to know where to start. May I make some suggestions?
Kind Reader, meet my Blogroll: This is a list of the blogs I regularly read.
I...
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Jan.08.2013
(So I'm sitting here in my usual insomniac mode and it suddenly dawns on me that I forgot to upload today's (Monday, January 7) post! Since it's still technically Monday until I go to bed, here it is. #dontjudgeme)
Thursday I mentioned that I want to start working on a book.
I'm toying with...
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Jan.06.2013
Though this saying is not an absolute (I believe things can "go good" and stay good), it still provides food for thought:
If anything, I believe we should strive to enjoy and fully maximize the good times in our life. We need to practice the art of appreciation, and cultivate an "...
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Jan.05.2013
A very popular photo is currently circulating on Facebook.
It's called "The 52 Money Challenge," and a lot of people (including me) are intrigued.
The premise is very simple: Save the corresponding amount of dollars for each week of the year, and at the end of the year you'll have saved the tidy...
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Jan.04.2013
One of the things I want to learn this year is Zydeco dancing.
This, my friends, is why:
http://youtu.be/rnWAj5v99ko
I won't tell y'all how many times I've watched this video. Yes, Home Girl has some great moves - no shade on her.
However.
I am not watching her moves.
(I'm just...
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Jan.03.2013
Living in the moment brings you
a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.
~Oprah Winfrey
So yesterday I shared with you that I used one of Rosetta Thurman’s blog posts as a reflective exercise to plan my goals and strategies for 2013.
(By the way, if you haven’t...
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Jan.02.2013
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
~Henry David Thoreau
Like millions of others, I've been in a reflective mood. Rosetta Thurman, blog mistress of The Happy Black Woman, put out an excellent blog post entitled “Preview...
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Jan.01.2013
“[Today], is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”
~Brad Paisley
Happy New Year to everyone!
Today is January 1, 2013. Whether we like it or not, we've turned the book on 2012 and forever closed the book. Sure, some of the choices and decisions we made in 2012 may...
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Dec.28.2012
Have you ever had anyone do something mean, malicious, or spiteful to you – all with the express purpose of sabotage? What about suffering at the hands of people who know they’re engaging in hurtful behaviors – those lovely people who are so selfish and self-centered that other people’s feelings...
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Dec.21.2012
(Some of my 4th graders at the Christmas play - I so appreciate them now!)
Like a shooting star
Flyin' across the room
So fast so far
You were gone too soon
You're part of me
And I'll never be
The same here without you
You were gone too soon
Shine on! Shine on!
You were gone too soon...
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Nov.24.2012
We live, we love, we forgive and never give upCuz the days we are given are gifts from aboveAnd today we remember to live and to love
~From We Live by...
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Nov.21.2012
There’s so much I can say about my Dad.
Yet, there’s nothing I can say without tearing up/breaking down/crying, so I think I’m going to try to be a big girl and keep this simple.
Happy Birthday to the bestest Daddy in the whole wide world. I could not have asked for anyone better for ...
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Nov.15.2012
It was August 1956, and an Army soldier who had recently fought in Korea now faced deployment to a war in Vietnam. His best friend Charles (more commonly known as "Bully"), a guy he'd known since infancy, had been married for a couple of years to a very pretty girl that he was obviously crazy...
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Oct.26.2012
This past weekend I had the distinct pleasure of attending the 76th International Rice Festival in Crowley, LA. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Louisiana culture, the state’s Department of Tourism reports that Louisiana holds over 400 festivals every year – and is “often...
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This above all: To thine own self be true.”
—William Shakespeare
About Michelle
I'm a native Louisianan currently living in Dallas, TX. I have two brothers and consider myself "the independent middle child." I have a B.S. degree in marketing from Florida A & M University, and an MBA. I'm currently pursuing a PhD in higher...