Quit Taking It Personally – A Lesson Brought to You by Q-Tips

October 4, 2019

Have you ever heard the acronym for Q-TIP? Quit Taking It Personally Boy oh boy, these days I could use a whole case of those magic little wands of [...]

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Willing – Not Stuffing My New Family Into an Old Pan

September 13, 2019

You’re likely familiar with “The Meatloaf Story”… A mom and daughter are cooking a meatloaf when the daughter asks, “Mom, why do you cut off each end of the [...]

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Blog Shot One – How Men Are Stupid and Women Are Crazy

August 9, 2019

In this hot time of year, let’s take a look back to this popular post from the cold month of February. This wisdom-nugget has stuck with me for decades, [...]

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

July 26, 2019

Years ago, a close friend of mine from college taught me about the good laugh and the bad laugh. The bad laugh, he explained, is when the joke is [...]

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Who Says You’re Not Perfect? Not Me.

June 21, 2019

A few weeks ago, I witnessed someone talking to a group of children about making mistakes. In the talk, the cliche “nobody’s perfect,” was used. There I was, with [...]

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Teasey Pleasies – A Solution to Taming the Unpleasable

February 15, 2019

After last week’s blog Easy Pleasey, I got to thinking about the Teasey Pleasies in life. Those people who make me believe I truly can please them if I [...]

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Easy Pleasey – Keeping Check of My Pleasability Meter

February 8, 2019

One thing I have to keep in check is my pleasability meter. For a long time, without even realizing it, I was hard to please. I just had these [...]

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3 Ways to Take Better Care of Myself

January 4, 2019

Those kids got back to the safety of school just in time. Mama was starting to struggle with kindness during those last 48 hours. Which provided, yet another, opportunity [...]

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How? or Why? – What People are REALLY Asking

November 16, 2018

When someone asks me how I’m doing, I feel loved and cared for. When someone asks me why I’m doing something, it can quickly feel like an evaluation or [...]

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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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Quit Taking It Personally – A Lesson Brought to You by Q-Tips

Willing – Not Stuffing My New Family Into an Old Pan

Blog Shot One – How Men Are Stupid and Women Are Crazy

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

Who Says You’re Not Perfect? Not Me.

Teasey Pleasies – A Solution to Taming the Unpleasable

Easy Pleasey – Keeping Check of My Pleasability Meter

3 Ways to Take Better Care of Myself

How? or Why? – What People are REALLY Asking

3 Reasons to Change the Scale I Get on Everyday

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