We all want love. We are hard-wired to want it. From the moment we leave the womb and enter the world, we are kicking and screaming for love and care. Babies demand love, and mothers are programmed to provide it unconditionally. (Thank God, right? Those crying, pooping, eating machines don’t always foster warm, fuzzy feelings […]
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What would happen if you decided to arrive at work no earlier than 9:00 in the morning and left at 5:00 every day? Maybe you already have that kind of job, and if so, you’re excused from reading this post. But this isn’t most of us. I was talking to a friend the other day […]
Continue ReadingSo we are in the thick of it now. It’s mid-February, and we are hovering in the windy, dark corners of the winter season. The holidays are a distant memory and spring seems still buried under the cold, hard earth. Here in Atlanta we have seen more rain and snow (yes, snow!) this winter than […]
Continue ReadingLook at the photo of these incredibly powerful, beautiful dancers from the ballet Romeo and Juliet. Are they in agony or ecstasy? Or both? We know the story of these star-crossed lovers. They are passionate soul mates whose circumstances pull them apart and lead them to untimely death. Damn. I hate it when that happens. […]
Continue ReadingNow that I’m a neophyte blogger on personal growth, I have become achingly aware of the plethora of extraordinary blogs with different slants on the same subject. I look at them and drool with the dreams of a one-legged sprinter. I am about to take a Blogging Bootcamp with two of the world’s greatest bloggers, […]
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Do you have any idea where you’re going with your life? I used to wonder that all the time as I bobbled through life like a pinball, bouncing from one task to another with no real direction. If my dream job was to be a “Task Master,” I’d become the expert in the field. Routines, […]
Continue ReadingWho do you want to be? I’m not asking who you are or what kind of life you want to have, but who do you want to be? One of my favorite literary characters of all time is Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird. Gregory Peck played the role in the movie, and he […]
Continue ReadingThere are two things I used to do that I try not to do so much of anymore: buy stuff and do stuff. I spent years of my younger adult life accumulating things or thinking about how I could accumulate them or why I deserved to accumulate them even if we couldn’t afford them. Clothes, […]
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