 I’m gonna guess that if you’re reading my blog, you are no longer in middle school. Or, if you are, you have somehow hijacked your parent’s computer and are frantically trying to Google “How to delete browser history.” Good luck with that. Middle school is awful. For most of my life, I have believed…
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Choosing joy. They are two words that, as with all directives, are way more work than they seem.
So, I know that I’m not saving babies, here. I’m not curing cancer (that I know of, at least). But this little press might be able to do some good.
Sometimes, it takes the innocence of a child to teach our greatest lessons. Last week in church, I was able to sit in to listen to the lesson taught to the young children. Having heard many a lesson, these young spirits are very familiar with the standard answers to the questions that we all have.…
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I have worked so hard over the past few months. I have given a lot of myself to the world and gotten very little in return. I feel like a failure. I fail a lot, actually. And no matter what it seems like on the outside, the inside of my life is full of debt,…
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A lesson on being rich, as told to me by a drunk man in a hot tub on Maui.
—- This is a hard question, and everyone has a different answer. I mean, it doesn’t really matter what the thing is, does it? As soon as you read the question, you knew what it was for you. Maybe this post is about your addiction to doughnuts. Maybe this post is about your marriage. Maybe…
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What are you afraid of? Because that’s the next lesson you need to learn from.
In order for this next story to make sense, you have to know that I have the weirdest and coolest job in the world. No, I am not a professional pudding wrestler. No, I am not a ninja goddess. Those are good guesses, but not quite. I am, in fact, a professional pioneer. It was…
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Modern medicine has come a long way. For example, if there was once a time when it was considered pretty good doctoring to put maggots on a festering wound. And if your baby did a lot of crying? In the 10th century there was a pretty good likelihood that she was a changeling and would…
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There are actually some pretty cool things about having cancer. Here are 6 to start with.
So, I should start with the basics: I have started acting again. This is kind of a big deal, as I felt that when I got married it wasn’t a good idea to pursue acting. There were a number of reasons, but the biggest one was that my husband thought I would spend so much…
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It takes a bit of faith to believe that kindness and love where you are—in your house, in your school, in your job—can influence Vladamir Putin or Joe Biden.
