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Holidays, Perspective, Life

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For everyone celebrating the various holidays this past week, and for those of you celebrating holidays this week, including the end of one year and the beginning of another, Happy Holidays!

I began writing this post the day before...

“… you become what you give your attention to.”

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In today’s email from The Daily Stoic, an email I receive and read almost every day, Ryan Holiday reminds us,

“The Stoics say you become what you give your attention to.”

While this could mean anything from the people we surround...

Writing Is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World

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I’ve always been a reactionary writer. (I’ve probably always been a reactionary person, but that’s a completely different subject.) I tend to react to things I read, things I experience, things that inspire me, things that make me ...

Who You Choose to Represent You IS Your History

I’m currently reading Courage is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave by Ryan Holiday in the mornings. This morning, a passage struck me so hard that I thought I would share it.

And I think this passage struck me because of the times we’re in right now. I’ve often wondered over the last… I don’t know… four to six years… what will the history books say about the people of the times ...

removing toxicity WILL improve your life

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Today is my birthday! It’s been one year since I celebrated my fiftieth birthday in Boston with my husband.

As my fifty-first birthday approached, I remembered a post I wrote more than a year ago leading up to my “big” milestone bi...

a calling to adventure (and to the Camino de Santiago)

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This time the calling happened while Mike and I were road tripping to a funeral in Eastern Kentucky to honor an incredible man and comfort family.

As we made our way east on the Mountain Parkway, I asked Mike, “How about a podcast?...

death and taxes, this I’m certain of

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This post was originally written and published on April 20, 2022 via Substack.

Today’s post is a diary of sorts — thoughts leftover from a stressful couple of months. It’s also a post I almost didn’t hit publish on, but I think the...

Reading: Toxic Positivity by Whitney Goodman

This post was originally written and published on March 27, 2022 via Substack.

Toxic Positivity by Whitney Goodman caught my eye shortly before it released, and I immediately preordered it because… well… like many of us, I imagine, I was in an up-close and personal relationship (not a romantic one, I’m happily married) with someone who was suffocating me with what I considered t...

on working too hard and being overwhelmed

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This post was originally written and published on March 19, 2022 via Substack.

Every morning, as I sit in my office, drinking my coffee, looking at the list of things I need to accomplish that day, I hear our resident woodpecker. S...

exploring time and belonging with Brené Brown

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This post was originally written and published on March 5, 2022 via Substack.

For the past two years, I have slowly, sometimes in micro steps and sometimes in rare giant leaps, placed fitting in above belonging.

In Brené Brown’s Th...