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Free to be you and me
I was a child of the 70’s and I grew up listening to Marlo Thomas and Friends album Free to Be You and Me with its hot pink cover and playlist of songs…
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Permission granted
When I was a new mother I joined a baby playgroup. We gathered together weekly as our babies (now all high school graduates) learned to sit up, then crawl, then walk, then share…
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Husbandless Father’s Day
I’ve been celebrating Father’s Day my entire life because I’m blessed to have an incredible Dad. Eighteen years ago, the celebration of Father’s Day shifted to include honoring my husband, the father of…
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Summer Challenge
What’s on every teacher’s playlist in June: School’s out for summer! School’s out forever! –Alice Cooper. Rock on. It never gets old. Ok, maybe not forever, but for a carefree couple of months,…
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Into the Unknown
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure” — Marianne Williamson This quote comes from Marianne’s Williamson’s poem “Our Deepest Fear” and…
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Fearlessly Authentic
When I think about the person I want to be, two words keep circling back to my mind: fearlessly authentic. You know, like the person I was at age 10 who wore rainbow…
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The Moon Shell
On Friday night I was hanging out in the backyard with Jasper, taking in all the overgrowth and weeds that have sprung up over the past few weeks when I stumbled across a…
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Serendipity and Pudding Cups
The other day my co-worker came into my room to tell me about a dream she had the night before. The night before I had just happened to meet a dream interpreter. That’s…
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Luxury of Time
“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” Quote from a wall of the antique shop that I visited today. Have you been feeling the pull of…
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Sisterhood of the Moon
For the past two years, I’ve been living inside a protective chrysalis of healing. It’s been a dark, challenging, yet nurturing place that has been a necessary part of my post-divorce journey. From…
