Do you have a dream sitting on a shelf in your closet waiting for ‘one day’? Did you always want to paint? Play the piano? Learn French? Become a stand-up comic? (Remember the movie Punchline?)
It may well have been the right decision years ago to shelve that dream. You had the kids, husband and mortgage to think about. It was too risky, once you started your family. But, what’s stopping you Read More
Sweet, lovable you, Libby? Not possible!
Oh, how we humans love to complain. We’ll complain about work, neighbors, food, service, traffic, prices. You name it, we can complain about it. Oh, and the weather! And then we turn it up a notch in winter, don’t you think? And then we turn Read More
Makes me wonder when you'll meet her again...
Once, when I was a struggling student I had an opportunity to go to Ottawa with a group I was working with part-time. It was a business trip, junior though I was, and I was second choice. The prime candidate ended up being unable to go. But, it was Read More
Imagine yourself sitting at the end of the dock. The sun warming your back. The clear blue water lapping at your toes.
And then your cell phone chirps , beeps, vibrates at you. A text, email, instant chat comes through. Work strikes again.
Why are we so spectacularly bad at completely Read More
Sounds scary but great attitude, Cathy! I bet you'll be dancing all the way through those new adventures.
There’s lots of stuff out there that deserves to be said “No” to – for example, almost anything that does not make you happy on some level or stresses you out is a definite no. But if you think about it, do you sometimes say no when you don’t really have a good reason? Do make excuses because you’re feeling comfortable Read More
Wonderful, Jocelyn! We're all works in progress, I think. It keeps life interesting, no? Like a box of chocolates. ;-)
Try as we may, sometimes it’s hard to be content with who we are. Why is it that sometimes we have such a hard time being comfortable with this person we have been our whole lives? It’s like creativity and wonder, we had confidence when Read More
It seems to me that there’s a big crush on finding happiness these days. Lots of talk about searching for it, pursuing it. Sometimes it sounds like happiness is only the result of a gigantic hunting expedition. In reality, I think it’s all around us. We just have to see it. Admittedly, the world can be Read More
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