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Category Archives: personal growth
Dumbing down is not an option
Yeah, I know I should be organizing my house. I’m really feeling run down with the cold I contracted from my daughter. So I am resting and nursing my health and blogging instead. *** I’ve wasted no small amount of … Continue reading
Gifted and Disorganized
This week has been a very slow work week for me. I contracted a nasty stomach virus last Friday night from my adorable students/germ factories, and spent most of the wee hours of Saturday vomiting and emptying my bowels just … Continue reading
If you had controlling parents…how do you avoid becoming one?
I have talked quite a bit on this blog about my insecurities and anxieties about my own capacity as a mother. Midway through my 40th year now, I spent about a year and a half examining the factors that have … Continue reading
Blizzards and Boredom and Bertrand Russell.
What better way to spend a snowy midwest winter evening than curled up with a cup of hot cocoa and Bertrand Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness. It was written in 1930, but it’s still very much appropriate and inspiring. It … Continue reading
Expansive
Wow, nine days without a post. Crazy, but true. My grandmother died (I’ll talk about that after the funeral on Tuesday, I think). I read. And ruminated. I wrote in my journal. And corresponded with friends. And ruminated some more. … Continue reading
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I am blessed by Paulo Coelho’s writings
I don’t think I have ever been so consistently touched by someone’s writings as I have with Paulo Coelho. I have read Veronika Decides to Die, Eleven Minutes, and am working my way through The Zahir, The Alchemist and Warrior … Continue reading
Posted in faith, mindfulness, personal growth
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