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3 Reasons to Change the Scale I Get on Everyday

November 9, 2018

With the season of eating quickly approaching, I got to thinking about the scale. My scale lives up on a shelf in my closet. I stopped regularly using it [...]

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Busy – Do You Feel Adult Peer Pressure to Be Frantic?

October 26, 2018

Being too busy makes me so agitated and pissy that I’ve had several serious come to Jesus realizations about how much I can physically do as one human being. [...]

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Mama, Where Does Anger Come From?

October 19, 2018

Well, honey, this is what happens with me… Mama gets tired. Now, we’re good there, nothing too scary about being tired. People get tired. But, instead of getting the [...]

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Calm Down – 5 Ways to Connect My Head to My Heart

July 27, 2018

Just writing the words, “Calm Down” can get me a little fired up. I used to warn suitors, “Do yourself and favor and don’t ever tell me to ‘calm [...]

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Best Summer Ever? Summer With Kids Can Be Tough

July 20, 2018

Son of a Monkey’s Uncle, I have done it again. In an attempt to better understand my life, I have gone and completely complicated it. I’m often making things [...]

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Adult Growth Spurts – They’re a Real Thing

June 1, 2018

Can 43-year-olds have growth spurts? This week my son was exhibiting the classic signs of a growth spurt: insatiable hunger, complete exhaustion, and right around your birthday or half [...]

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Doubt – How a Broken Camera Motivated Me to Recommit to My Mission

May 11, 2018

As I get older, in general, I doubt myself less and less. Knowing who I am and what I stand for makes decision making and problem-solving so much easier. [...]

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Three boys on a beach. One boy, his shorts falling and exposing part of his bottom, scratches his head and looks forward toward the other boys.

Humor Is Serious Business: 3 Things to Ask So I Don’t Take Life Too Seriously

April 6, 2018

This week, I was thinking about humor. The serious business of humor. Why is it a serious business? Because having relationships is essential and it’s just no fun being [...]

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iProblem – How Technology Messes With My Mind

March 2, 2018

Perfectionism: Maintaining Personal Serenity

While I don’t have a smartphone, I do have an iPad. This week I learned about propinquity from the meditation app Calm. Propinquity is a concept in psychology that [...]

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This Gal’s Gonna Keep Crossing T’s and Dotting I’s

January 19, 2018

A couple of weeks ago, I had a little breakdown on my way to Baldwin Middle School. Not because I didn’t know one of the children had a student [...]

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My Way or The Highway – Forcing My Will on The Family

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