My dogs need therapy…

It’s been one of those weeks… you know what I mean. A week when you can’t bear to watch the news anymore but you must — you must. A week when you want to talk to every person you’ve ever befriended and tell them how great they are. A week when you want to assume [...]

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Accountability

I’m running my first 5k this weekend. I’m running my first 5k this weekend. I’m running my first 5k this weekend. Everybody got that? A few roadblocks — I haven’t eaten in a couple of weeks… not good for stamina. I haven’t slept in a couple of weeks… not good for, well stamina. Also there’s [...]

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(Strange) Laughter is Best

A card arrived in the mail today. I’ve been receiving so many cards and letters lately from friends, because I’m a (semi) card person now, that I didn’t even look at who it was addressed to — I assumed it was me. I looked at who had sent it. I recognized the last name… it [...]

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The Chain Reaction Of Balance

I think the mind (my mind) works in the same manner as a web search works. You know when you go to Google something (you know you Google) and it directs you to your page but then once you get to your page there’s an interesting link that relates to your page and so you [...]

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Smiling’s My Favorite

There are many forces that motivate people to do things. I don’t mean bad things, I’m talking about good things. Really, every positive decision we make in life is due to an intrinsic motivation to “do better” to “become better” to “achieve more”. Sometimes, it’s the intrinsic part that becomes so difficult and holds us [...]

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…and Dog Gone It, People Like Me!

Don’t we all have those people in our lives that we want to let know how great we’re doing now, how great we turned out in spite of them? Or those people you just want to let know you aren’t that same weird kid because of them? I’ve had quite a few of those people [...]

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