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• Motivational Memorial Day…

  

  Every year as a child, my family would do something outdoorsy over the “holiday” weekend.  We would go to the lake with my extended family or we would have a... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Year Was 1998…

  drowqueen:#TBT Throwing it waaaay back for my new peeps. Originally posted on The Burned Hand: Urine. What a fun topic. Well, as I said in the beginning, it... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Motivational Monday…

  

  I’m going to take you back a few years today.  Okay, maybe more than a few, but according to the bartender the other night, I don’t look my age, and it was a... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Truth Tellers…

  

  One of the reasons I like Momastery so much is the opening blurb:YOU BELONG HERE.Momastery is an open window. It’s a place to take a deep breath. It’s a place t... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Motivational Monday…

  

  So, a year ago, I made a decision that changed my life.  I decided to step down from teaching and focus on my health.  I don’t even think I made the decision, i... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Motivational Monday…

  

  A long time ago, in a hood far, far away, I was a teacher.  During November, I talked about a few of the hard stories.  I had a student once who had “selective... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Challenge Accepted…

  

  Every once in a while you might feel like Life has marched right up to you and thrown down the gauntlet.  Poof.  The dust rises and you look her right in the... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Motivational Monday…

  

  There are lots of things about myself I would change.  If you don’t think I know it, then you are wrong.  I bet you know all of your “faults” too.  The thing is... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Irritation…

  

  A few things…remember that post where I talked about being Scorpio?  You know the one where I basically said the worst thing you can do to a Scorpio is lie to... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Back to Nature…

  

  Fresh air.  A breeze.  Only the trees to keep me company.  Rocking chairs on the porch and the sound of a woodpecker off in the distance.  Ahhh. Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Extending Grace…

  

  I think this is the perfect follow-up to the last piece on shame.  I have friends I have not met and sometimes they are looking for a particular quote for... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Shame on You…

  

  So I got told once in a private message.  SHAME on me.  Shame on me.  The problem was, I didn’t feel shame.  She did.  She was projecting her shame or what... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Armor of Love–My Messy Beautiful

  

  Please don’t look at my cuticles. They are jagged and bleeding from being picked apart. Eventually, they start to look better, and when they do, it never... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Nowhere…

  On vacation this week.  Working on a post, but wasn’t ready to unveil it until I get back.   If I get internet,  which was the whole point of going away,  I... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• I Can’t Turn It Off…

  

  If there was ever a time I needed to turn off my brain, it would be now.  I saw the signs leading up to it.  They have always been there.  I just THINK too much... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• On Being Scorpio…

  

  Sometimes, I wish I wasn’t so Scorpio. Here are some things about being a Scorpio which I find to be true.Do not try to manipulate a Scorpio. They can smell it ... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Motivational Monday…

  

  Mondays have never been easy for me.  This might come as a surprise, but that’s actually why I started Motivational Monday last year.  As a teacher, I was alway... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Fog…

  

  So I suffer from something we like to call brain “fog” and I have for a while.  It happens to be one of the side effects of at least two of my conditions.  For... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• Celtic Curse…

  

  55,000 years ago is difficult to wrap your mind around, but sometime during the Iron Age, the Celtic culture established itself throughout the British Isles. Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 SELF EXPRESSION

• The Written Word…

  

  As an English major, I was taught to look deep into the meaning behind words.  Authors did not come out and say exactly what they meant. Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2014 SELF EXPRESSION