Live Well

  • Talking to Strangers

    Repost from an old blog: 2013 So, it’s hot out. I mean melt the candles, burn the soles of your feet, let’s go to the State Fair hot. We decided to go to the mall instead, you know the one–the big one, the Mall of America. Dang right, ‘Merica’s Mall!   I loathe it. Okay,…

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  • Worthwhile Life

    In order to have a worthwhile life I’m pretty sure you might have to have a belief in your own worth first. And just how does one go about that? Especially if you are like me, and you spent years saying, OUT LOUD, every Sunday, “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but only…

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  • I have a plethora of written material spread over numerous notebooks (paper and digital). Most of it should not be shared, but I’ve decided that if I see something that might help someone else take a step forward (and at the same time, to remind myself to take that same step) that I’ll share it.…

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  • When someone says, “The possibilities are endless,” we often think of this as the most positive thing in the world! But if the possibilities are truly endless, how can we be sure we’re concentrating on the right one? If you fall into this possibilities hole–and I have, many times, got the skinned knees to prove…

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  • LOVE BRAVELY

    I was invited to a Bridal Shower. I had the gifts and the card, all I needed was something other than last years Christmas wrapping aka a gift bag. Have I ever told you how I hate to spend too much on things that might get thrown away? Like 7.99 on a birthday card…I don’t…

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  • I accidentally drove past my childhood home this past weekend and it was tiiiiiiiny! I mean it was a normal sized house, just not the size I remember. And the vast side yard? A quarter of the size I remember. There were still pine trees in the front yard but the lower branches had been…

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  • An (in)Elegant Life

    An (in)Elegant Life

    How often do you feel like a 7 year old? Let me be more specific, how often do you live with the metaphorical feeling of your socks balled up in your shoes just living with the uncomfortableness of it? How often do we live in the uncomfortableness of a situation? Job? Relationship? It’s okay, you…

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  • When The Most Important Thing to You is Your Two Week Vacation…

      This commercial has me thinking about life, specifically a life lived only for a vacation. What the hell kind of life is that? This is your life! Do the things to create a better life: Change jobs Sell your house Make new friends Visit a local museum Read amazing books Call a friend and DON’T complain Make…

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  •   Or, what comes after affirmations… We love to talk, right? we love to talk about ourselves and our ideas, our childhoods and all the horrors (imagined or real) of that, we love to talk about all the things we want to do in our lifetime. We. Love. To. Talk. Talk, talk, talk… But, I’m…

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  • Thinking As If…

    Are you afraid of how great the thing you want to do would be if you actually did it? Does just thinking about it scare you? Aren’t we hilarious–oooh, I’d like to do that, I think I might even be great at that…or, you know, maybe okay at it…I mean, I wouldn’t even know how…

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