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There isn’t much in my life that happens that I don’t know I can learn something from. As I listen to my intuition to inform my choices, I’m developing self-trust, creating a recipe for my own happiness, and cultivating a sense of belonging in my community which I created to support myself in my self-development journey.
I’d lost nearly ten pounds and I was elated. I hadn’t dropped below 160 pounds in at least five years, maybe ten. This weight loss was a huge accomplishment. I felt kind and didn’t dwell on the fact that it’s only taken two months to accomplish. All those years of lamenting my largess and it…
I barreled over the Chesapeake Bay on up the highway to my hometown city of Baltimore. On the way to meet up with some old friends and journey up to see another friend now living in Pennsylvania. I sped through the city. The quickest way through the city to my friend’s house was right…
Once upon a time, I feared and dreaded everything. My school work, my work schedule, my living arrangements, my next meal, my lack of self love, my family, and my marriage. I just didn’t put a larger value on happiness then. It would have been nice just not to feel. Every realm of my life…
(Originally published on the blog here 4 years ago, the little birds are building their nest again and I thought to revisit this piece as I don’t think I can say it any better than I already did.) Every year, outside our bedroom windows, pairs of little red house finches fuss at each other as…
I write to discover, and then I forget myself again. It’s been a really interesting journey discovering who I am and what I know. Then, like so much dust churned up, the ideas dissipate back into the computer files. The complexity of me is lost to myself, to others. I envy my blog’s readers as…
There was a time when my body and my brain had a lot of aches and pains. I had sinus problems galore, I had back issues, tooth ouchies, and I had head issues. And funny, I was resolved to be there living in that pain each day. Worthy of the suffering. How ridiculous I think…
Official know-it-alls everywhere know that to be a an expert you have to be an authority. No one’s going to give you credit for your knowledge unless you can prove that you have more to say and can say it better than other people. And then you get promoted to expert, authority, and official know-it-all….
Some friendships start due to proximity and then are maintained with intention. This is the story of my Hon friends and me. We all worked together at the Cafe Hon in Baltimore, Maryland 20 years ago. We try to get together at least once a year and remember those times, ourselves, and the people we…
Three weeks in to Weight Watchers and I’m definitely lighter. According to their scale, I’ve lost 3 pounds in the first two weeks. And my scale at home says it’s more. And I was elated and hopeful until I wasn’t. And here’s what I’m thinking. We all supposedly have a happiness set point. We can…
I prefer to live deep. I love thinking and pondering, considering and meditating. That deep kind of thinking that allows me to reach down into the roots of myself, into my creative soul, draw deeply from my intuition and come up quenched and real. As a mother, I get very little of that now. I…
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