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I Don’t Usually Let Negative Comments Get To Me. Until Now.

A post of mine was featured on Huffington Post this past Friday. The hate speak it garnered was pretty impressive. It received over 5,000 Likes, hundreds of Shares and nearly 200 comments. Most of them not so friendly. What was it about? It was about starting over, fear and courage. A shadow post of one […]

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A Very Personal Post – The Other Side of Fear

Twelve years ago I was broken. I had just ended a 29 year marriage, sent my only kid off to college, and was left broke and unemployed with the cats and the dog to feed. Not exactly my life plan. I was alone for the first time in my life and filled with fear. I […]

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Clowns, Bigots, and other Calamities

After a recent presentation in front of a few hundred people, I was relaxing in the lounge with a few of my peers. In conversation, they commented how much they admired my fearlessness. Fearless? Me? Oh, I don’t think so! I’m afraid a lot of things. Yes, I have a list, and I’m thinking that the […]

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Fear is a liar

When something comes our way that we think we can’t handle, we become fearful. This past week has dealt me a good piece of fear. The dreaded word, ‘cancer’, entered the life of someone I love. It is not my first encounter with this robber of hope. I needed a day or two to keep […]

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The Sandbox Rules

Remember pre-school?  I vote we send a few people back for a refresher course. Life was easier then, mostly because we had clear boundaries set for us. If we didn’t follow them we did some time in the corner, received a tongue lashing or got sent home in disgrace. There was to be no hitting, […]

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