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Feeling Like Little Miss Nostalgia
The older I get, the more I find myself waxing nostalgic… I’m a sucker for the happy pieces of my childhood! And while I wasn’t around for the…
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That Feels Like Growth
I’ve spent a LOT of time over the past year in a weird sort of existential-contemplation mode. It’s been… interesting. Enlightening. People change, right? Physically, emotionally, whatever…
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Fall & Family Time
I grew up in Michigan, and as an adult, I despised the fall season. October, in particular, meant death in nature. Watching the plants die, raking and managing a yard full of leaves…
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Throwback Thursday: Fat Ballerina
“You can’t turn a tutu into a four-four.” I was extremely fortunate to have an aunt as a professional ballet teacher with her own dance school. Thanks to…
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Throwback Thursday: A Game of I Spy
I’m about to share a photo with you that was taken on March 27, 2009. Before you judge me too harshly based on this photo, I’d like to mention that this was…
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Throwback Thursday: Pancreatitis & Gallbladder Surgery
My gallbladder story begins in March 2017, age 31, female, just over 3 months after starting a very strict diet and losing about 40 lbs…
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Father’s Day, Again
I lost my dad in August, 2020. Yesterday was my second Father’s Day without him. Does it ever get easier? I started this post with intentions to talk about how I’ve grieved…
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Practicing Mindfulness With DailyOm: Places
My first trip to the Netherlands was wonderful, but seeing it for the first time was exciting and inspiring. Leaving the airport, the first thing I noticed was…
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Throwback Thursday: Chubby Punk Girl
Back in my oddly satisfying 20’s, when my hair was one step away from totally black. Kinda had that alternative thing starting. A friend from the UK suggested…
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Good In The World
Saturday evening, my husband Arnold and I drove to the gas station and decided to take a “scenic” route back home via a back road we’d never travelled before…
And if you long to never die
Baby, plug in, upload your mind
Come on, you’re not even alive
If you’re not backed up on a drive
– Grimes, “We Appreciate Power”