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“How to be free enough to be me” is really a complex thought if you think about it.  Do we let inhabitations bind us in fear of judgment, or are we well with ourselves enough to dance while others are looking no matter how strange we may appear?  What it all boils down to is, [...]

I left my meeting early with hopes of beating the storm.  At this same time of day, just twenty-four-hours ago, the sunset sky danced with brilliant baby blues and pink rimmed clouds that looked as if they were made of cotton candy.  I knew that if the heavens decided to repeat the same dance I [...]

 If you could go back to the carefree life of a child would you?  Most likely not, but how many of us remember what it was like to not be encumbered by life’s problem allowing ourselves to have JOY, simple Joy?
I believe there are many of you who feel that simple joy is completely out [...]

Seventy-four Swarovski crystals, eleven silver beads, one meter of clear monofilament and a small strand of satin ribbon carefully joined together creates a pendant that to me, represents sacrifice.  The sacrifice I am referring to isn’t in making these precious pendants but rather in the service that has been rendered by others to my family [...]

When looking at a photo such as this, many different responses will arise depending on many factors.  If you have a deadly sweet tooth, such as I, then you won’t necessarily look at this with disgust.  I immediately focus on the fudge and my mouth starts to water.  Those of you who are neat freaks, [...]

 
The other day I stepped into my teenage son’s room and found a simple life lesson up on his windowsill. There, so carefully arranged, were a dozen or so rocks of varying size, shape, color and texture. Each one had its own reason for being brought into this young man’s treasured collection. I picked up [...]

A few years ago I finally found something I had been in search of for over a decade.  This prized possession was a school desk that happened to be over a hundred years old and had come from a one-room schoolhouse in the Midwest.  I loved the nostalgic feeling it brought with it of children [...]

Have you ever thought about how a photograph of a sunset could be mistaken for a sunrise if you do not know where the photographer was standing when he or she took the picture?  I love the thought that a sunset, and the ending of a day, becomes the dawning of a new day for [...]

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