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Hey 2019, Let’s Do This

Dear 2019, We meet again. Well, not exactly, but I’ve met others like you. Thirty-three others, actually. You were all basically the same, luring…

This was supposed to be an amazing year. It began with an optimistic to-do list and lots of achievable goals. We were going to get so much…

New Year’s resolutions are my least favorite thing. This year’s top resolution is to “be a better person”. Maybe this is well-intentioned but…

New Year’s Eve is always more glamorous in my mind than it actually is in reality. Parties, a new cocktail dress, martinis (and I don’t…

Happy little trees. Who wouldn’t want to live in a world full of happy little trees—branches waving as you pass by, the sun always slanted at the…

A couple of years ago I read a poignant book called The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing, by Australian…

Five Christmases ago I was waltzing around in a grape colored sheath, nude platform heels, and a trim size six body. I passed on the gravy, eschewed…

I have never seen so many people take to Facebook at the end of the year and start whining and complaining. “2016 Enough already!” “OMG I…

Teaching a goal-setting class at a homeless shelter gave me a whole new perspective on goal-setting. In preparing for the class, I was all set…

Life. It’s a series of breaths, seconds, minutes, moments, hours and many times years that feed into decades. If we’re lucky, that is. If…