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Own Your Part!
“The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.” ― William Hazlitt This past Saturday I watched an episode (for the third time) of the new drama This Is Us on NBC. This time I watched it with my kids. This episode explored a secret that a...
People Color
I wrote about this topic in undergraduate school, but edited it and posted it during the 2008 election. I just edited it again for the 2016 election, because it is still so relevant.... At about age 4, when I first realized that skin color was quite important to a...
Recovering Perfectionist
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard Everyone has a vice. Sometimes it is super apparent because drugs, alcohol, caffeine are actual substances that people tend to use to cover...
Rest Daddy…
The last two months have been the most challenging I've experienced in quite a while. On the same day that I was letting my daughter go and moving her into college, I got the call that my dad passed...I think it is impossible for me to put into words just how...
Clarity is Power…
Clarity is that momentum that has no resistance, and when you're in that place of clarity, the feeling of what to do next is right there. -Abraham Hicks I recently had an interaction with a very close friend, who is really more like a family member than friend. ...
Letting Go…Again!
“The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.” -C. JoyBell C. This month I am getting an even deeper understanding of the challenge of letting go. My oldest has been...
I’m Social
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