Help! I Need To FIX My Life!

Good for the Soul

I wrote this blog post a month ago and never returned to edit it - to fix it.   ‘Fixing my Life’ has kept me busy and I begin today, not sharing an apology for my delay and detour from my…

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Keep Moving Forward...

As Walt Disney said, "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."  I first read this quote when I was eight or nine years old in…

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Patience

I started writing this blog before Mother's Day and somehow, the month is almost gone!  I have lost a couple weeks to having Covid as well as moving my daughter home for the summer from UGA, focusing on ending the…

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Ferris Beuller Was Right!

Hey-- "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it" -- Ferris Beuller.

And how right Ferris was!  This movie came out in 1986, the year I graduated high school.   I…

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Stress!

As the bowl of chocolate chips might reveal, I am stressed.  There are many great coping mechanisms for this-- cleaning the house, doing yard work, playing with the dogs..and then the cats....and I have tried all of those things today…

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Find the Good!

I went to sleep very heavyhearted. I know better than to read any news before bedtime, but after a long drive to Athens, GA, and back, I found myself scrolling on Twitter.  We have problems here in the US, no…

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A Fire is Burning...

I took this picture first thing this morning while the dogs roamed the grass, soaking up as much outside time as possible before the storms.  And I thought to myself, a fire is burning.  

Fire is brilliant, warm, necessary.  Fire…

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Bruce Willis has Aphasia, but what is that?

Since the 1980s, I've had a crush on Bruce Willis.  And every Christmas, my kids and I have watched the Die Hard movies (Yes, that's a Christmas movie!)  But now, he has aphasia.  I am so sad for him and…

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