When I was a little girl, I said a prayer. I asked earnestly to never forget what it feels like to be a kid. I don’t know exactly what my thought process was at the time. (I was quite young.) But there was something I saw in the grown-ups around me that I KNEW I […]
Maybe you’ve heard it before, or a million times… “What you focus on expands.” So whatever you put your attention on the most, you will get more of that. What does that really mean to you? I went through some dark times last year around this time. I experienced deep depression, and I couldn’t find
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Not everyone knows this about me, but I LOVE TO DRIVE FAST! In high school, my friends called me Mario after experiencing my driving. Back then I was in a Toyota Celica hatchback, but I took it off-road sometimes, and pushed it to the limits in turns and everywhere else. I have fond memories of
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The following is a poem I wrote on Mothers Day. I feel it needs explanation due to the feedback I received after sharing it on social media. It is NOT my current experience of life or my relationship with my daughter. It IS however from my own life learnings, and things I have observed over
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My toilet was clogged for FOUR DAYS. This was a bit of a crisis for me, since I have only one toilet in my now little place. I won’t share the details of how, or who, “helped” the toilet to become obstructed. The main and most valuable point to this story is that the toilet
I went hiking for the first time in about a month. It was glorious! Being on the trail is like air to me. Too long away from it and I feel like I’m suffocating. As I began climbing the mountain, I felt a difference in my body. I set out to meet the trail in
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I stood alone on the beach watching the sunset. It was magnificent. Did I mention I was alone? I began to contemplate lonliness. I’ve felt severe lonliness before. I’ve been depressed. I’m sad almost daily, at least for a moment. Standing there on the beach I asked myself, “Am I lonely, or sad? What is
How is it that I go from feeling immense gratitude and love, and the sense that all is well and perfect in my life… to writhing on my floor sobbing with no interest in going on at all? If you’ve got an answer, or a SOLUTION, I’d love to hear it! Cuz that is how
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It’s happened before. But this time…this time was different. This time I truly faced my mortality. The reality that my body, this flesh shell that I live inside, is fleeting, disposable, perishable and is subject to weakness. When the body seems to “fail” us, we realize that the power we think we have over life
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I had the most wonderful lunch! I took myself to my favorite Thai restaurant. I ordered things from the menu that I’d never tried before. (I have certain go-to dishes ordinarily) I enjoyed soup and even dessert. I sipped jasmine tea and finished the whole pot. It’s like it was my birthday or some other
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