Recently I saw someone post on Instagram: Asking for what you want is some powerful magic. The sentiment was along the lines of, nothing in life is ever handed to you. You must struggle and toil to get what you want. And you should never ask for what you want, because you don’t deserve it […]
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A significant milestone passed for me recently and I haven’t written or shared about it. In June it was ten years since I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. I’ve had ups and downs with my health in the past ten years, but that diagnosis anniversary has always hit me pretty hard. I think it’s mostly
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Remember that classic children’s book The Little Engine That Could? You know, about the Little Blue Engine who is smaller than all the other big, tough, engines, who’s never been over the mountain, but who is kinder than the other engines who are too good to help the broken down train get over the mountain.
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Unless you’ve seen pictures of me, you may not know that I have curly hair. And unless you also have curly hair, you may not know that it’s a thing for people with curly hair to wash their hair only once or twice a week. Really. I’m a once-a-week curly girl, myself. (By the way
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One of my biggest struggles in life is expecting things to be a certain way, and I have my mind fixed on THE way it has to be. No other way will do, and I put so much energy and effort into controlling the outcome so that it turns out the way I have it
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I recently saw a video on Instagram of someone talking about doing a science experiment of converting negative energy into positive energy. The video was from the comedian Sarah Silverman and she told a story about an encounter with a man in a parking lot, who started yelling at her and cussing her out after
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You know what it feels like when a boss or coworker (or maybe even a spouse or friend) is pressuring you for whatever reason? Maybe it’s a huge project for a bigtime client, and your boss keeps reminding you how important it is, and you really have to deliver, and it will be really bad
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I’ve been a little off my game the last week or so. My husband Jeremy and I had friends visiting from out of town who stayed with us overnight this week; my sister and her fiance are coming for dinner tonight. Plus, I’m behind on emails and a few other things, and had five back-to-back
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Like most writers, I’ve always wanted to write a book. I started what I thought would be my masterpiece in grad school, and to complete the program my thesis was indeed a manuscript. A bad manuscript. But it was a complete, 30,000-word manuscript. Not necessarily ready for public consumption, but complete enough that I thought
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I have written about rest before, but it’s on my mind again lately, especially in the wake of what has been going on in the world and particularly in America. I don’t need to list all of the insane injustices that we’re dealing with. You know what I’m talking about. The reason it’s on my
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