I’m convinced that when I was little, I knew exactly who I was. When I looked in a mirror, my body was a person with a head, torso and limbs just like every other person—like the stick families on the back windows of minivans—my parents, sister, and dog by my side. But my insides. I…
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I smiled to myself while driving home after work, admiring my squeegee job I just did on my windshield while getting gas—I had to use the hard edges just to get off the guts from a cloud of bugs I had driven through the day before. Ah, life is good, done work, finally driving home,…
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Ack, why is it always shocking to me how busy June is as school and kids’ activities wind to an end? You’d think I’d know by now. (Yes, that’s my pathetic excuse for not posting anything recently.) Thankfully, a contest through my workplace resulted in the perfect way to put something on my blog and also celebrate Father’s Day. The…
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When was the last time you heard something like, “Hey, that was awesome, you failed so amazingly!” My guess is: never. Most of us aren’t strangers to hearing advice on how to succeed, having heard those key success words since we were young, like ‘hard work’ and ‘determination’. Who doesn’t want to be successful? I…
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Written several years ago, updated recently… There is no other object in my life that has caused me to contemplate my image as much as my front bumper. Two winters ago, I was backing out of my driveway and I partially ran over a large rock covered with snow. The kids and I heard quite a…
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My husband and I have been getting along incredibly well for the past few weeks: no nagging one another, very few disagreements and affection abounds without us even trying. It feels so great to affirm why I am in this relationship. Example of My Relationship Flow Me: “Hey hon, would you mind putting your plate…
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