“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.” – Benjamin Disraeli Someone I love broke up with me in December of last year. By March, I thought I would be over it, […]
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A few years ago the idea that you could meet a potential love interest while staring into a computer screen must have seemed novel to some and downright bizarre to others. Today, the online dating industry generates roughly
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I’ve had all I can stands; I can’t stands no more! – Popeye I had resigned my corporate career. I was desperate do something other than line the pockets of the machine, but I wasn’t sure who to
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As I sit here trying to write this article, I find myself struggling to do the task. I have had my own struggles with my body image and food. I understand what it feels like to look in
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When adversity strikes, how much do we really take responsibility for where we are and how we can change things? How often do we actually – consciously – ask ourselves, “What can I do about it?” Life took
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“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou Maybe you’ve met some of the people in my life: My financial adviser has been charging me high fees, but the returns on my investments are
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I spent a lot of my childhood in single-wide trailer that we shared for bit with a family of opossums. More on the opossums in a bit. My parents got divorced when I was 7 and after my
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“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” – Steve Maraboli I grew up with my grandmother in
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“If you show someone something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.” – David Mitchell, Black Swan Green Writers are not the most social human beings. We
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Sometimes as humans, we are so quick to give up. How many times have we been turned down and decided to stop? How often do we take rejection as a sign that it’s not meant to be? Seek
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“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”― Mahatma Gandhi Almost two years ago I lost my job through changes in the organization I had devoted my career to. It was
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