Exploring Relationships, Love, and Life
Since it’s now halfway through the year, I always like to sit back and check in to see where I’m at with my goals and figure out what I need to improve on. With the debacle of May behind me, I can finally start looking ahead to what I’m trying to accomplish instead of trying…
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Dreams are an exciting thing. I rarely ever remember a good dream, but a nightmare can jolt me awake, and I’ll remember many of the details. Why do we remember the nightmares more than the good dreams? My nightmares usually have to do with fear of losing a loved one or someone I care about.…
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Benji is my dog. He’s a labradoodle and weighs almost 100 pounds. He never fails to make me smile with his happy-go-lucky attitude and expressive eyes. Actually, his eyebrows do most of the talking, but I digress before I wax poetically about him. Now you might think I’m a dog person or something like that.…
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What are the things that make you feel like Summer? Probably the first thing that makes me think of Summer is Mint Tea. My Great- Grandmother lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. When I was with Dad in nearby York County, we would visit my great-grandparents reasonably often, and my grandmother would always make fresh mint…
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International Bath Day has a legend going back to Greek mathematician, scientist, and scholar Archimedes. Archimedes discovered that an object’s volume could be accurately measured by submerging it in the water while taking a bath. It is said that Archimedes was unable to contain his excitement at the discovery and ran through the streets of…
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I’m going to share something very personal this week. It’s about suffering setbacks. Recently this happened to me in a very profound way. It affected everything in my life. The last week of April was exciting, I took my computer to my son, and we replaced the motherboard, processor, RAM, and graphics card. We replaced…
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Things I can’t live without, just as the title says. My first thing Coffee, Coffee, and Coffee. Coffee is life. I tend to go with quality over quantity. Reaching for a rich dark French or Italian roast with a two-cup maximum. The second must-have thing would probably be my planner. I tell everyone. “If I…
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I love the idea of reading nooks and after looking at a bunch of designs. I realized a few things. A ready nook has to comfortable enough to stay there for a reasonable length of time. I like the idea of books being the main decor (because why call it a reading nook if there…
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How do you stay fit? The short answer was in the past, I beat myself up at the gym and hoped that good genes would take care of the rest. But after injuries, surgeries, and digestive issues, I just stopped. I gave up. It was too hard… That’s the truth. For the last 7 years,…
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