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Do you ever feel like life is a runaway train and you’re just flailing and flapping in the wind behind it? I feel this way quite often, especially when it comes to my home. There are so many things I want to do; good things that I feel like I should do, but between the…
I am done with making New Year’s Resolutions. I am an expert at making resolutions….and immediately failing at them. And if there is anything I really hate, it is feeling like a failure. But what I hate more than feeling like a failure is feeling like a failure all year long! There is something about…
Thanksgiving is one of my most favorite times of the year. In fact, I refuse to even consider decorating my house until December 1, because I like to spend all of November giving thanks. I think it is essential that we build in our spirits what I like to call a “thanksgiving default”. I get…
Thanksgiving is a time when we consciously sit back and reflect upon good things in our lives and remember why we should be grateful for what we have. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance,chaos to order and confusion to clarity….
To this day the memory transports me to a place of wonder and magic, filling me with warmth and love, and a sense of anticipation overtakes me. For whatever reason, the tree that year was especially beautiful – all the lights, decorations, and tinsel – it was almost like Currier and Ives had come to…
Every year about this time my Facebook timeline is filled with graphics about saying Merry Christmas, stories about people who said it and lost their jobs, or how the Government doesn’t have the right to prevent us from doing so. People are suddenly suspicious when someone opts for “Happy Holidays” (even though this term…
