First let me say I AM LOVING how the new tradition of Choose Your Life Mondays is going. I really really find myself thinking about how often I rush into things and even though I still did some rushing this week, I was aware! That is progress, dear sweetie Jen, that is progress. Big pat [...]

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This week I spent a lot of time crying because I missed my daughter. I missed her because she was with her dad but what I was really mourning was her baby self. We know grief comes in waves and this week has been a tsunami: grieving my baby now fourteen and a full on [...]

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I did. Make a big fat hairy goal, that is. A BFHG, man, a BFHG. It involves asking very famous big people to do something with me. That meant inviting them. Gulp. So right now, I’m typing on a keyboard covered with Swiss cheese oil (you know, the kind that oozes out of a rice [...]

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I finished reading Acedia and Me by Kathleen Norris last night and I want to shout  (I guess blogging is my shouting), “This book could change your life!” Acedia – what the hell is that? I’d never heard of it before.  Kathleen defines it as: …as the spiritual aspect of sloth. The word literally means [...]

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