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Are you ready?
Decades ago, I watched someone who I was very close to, figuratively speaking, waterskiing on a lake in Massachusetts. It wasn’t something this person had done recently, so I was really impressed that this person was not only able to ski quite well, but to slalom, as well. As I watched the ski boat come…
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The Evolving You and Reimagining Here
Each of us comes equipped with a story to share of how we feel today and how we think we got here, marked by up’s and down’s and people we’ve met along the way. Those who know me know that I love telling stories—not lies, but the truths as I remember them. I often pepper…
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C.R.E.A.T.E.
C R E A T E The time is now to ring in the new day with: Constant Appreciation Reality Checks Earthly Roots Advocation for Others and Yourself Temperance Education Is it… Another acryonym Another day Another breath you take Another bed to make Another back to wash Another vow to break? How have you…
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Be the action
In 2018, Merriam Webster added a new word to the established dictionary: healthspan. While many of us focus on lifespan and awareness of the average years of age people live, how many consider just how many of those years are healthy? This is your healthspan. As one year draws to an end and another begins,…
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2024 Holiday Message
2024 was a year of healing. That also suggests that there must have been some injury. There was. After a December ’23 fall in a hotel room, my husband required surgery in 2024 to help put a foot with multiple fractures back into the assemblance of a foot. (Note to self: turn on the light,…
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A Time to Realign
In a Boy Scout life guard course I took two and a half decades ago, I learned that when saving someone who is drowning, one needs to do the opposite of what seems natural. You see, when someone is drowning, they have the potential to hold on and drag the lifeguard under in an attempt…
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Blindsided and brittle
Have you ever stopped something you started? Stupid question, I know. But I just did that very thing in the wee hours this morning. What is unusual about it is that it involved a walk in the woods. A walk in the woods congers up memories of the book and movie, A Walk in the…