Author Archive
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Garden Party
23 Jun 2016“We’re all mad here.” “But, I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.” […]
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Positive Focus – Getting Back on Track When You View the World as a Train Wreck
17 Jun 2016Chugga, chugga, choo-choooo….. Life is not always easy. I’m not prone to anxiety, but the last couple weeks my chi has been askew. Listening to news and current events makes it worse. Our world is a train wreck. Terrorist wars raging in the middle east Run-away ebola outbreak in Africa that could spread to other […]
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The Middle
10 Jun 2016(I’m on summer vacation! These posts are re-posts. I have discovered a need to re-fill my creative cup. Looking forward to bringing you new and improved posts in the fall. I hope you enjoy these selected writings! Search topics of interest on my site for more related articles.) “Every giant redwood was once a seedling. […]
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Nothin’
04 Jun 2016Sometimes, you know, you just got nothin’. This will be short and sweet because today, I’m writing on an airplane and I’ve slept about 4 hours and …well, really, I got nothin’. No wit, no puns, no smart-ass comments. No rant, no chirp, no cadence. No crazy diatribe, nothing to carry you through til the […]
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Camping is Treacherous!
20 May 2016Camping is treacherous! Not the kind of camping where we become one with nature and steep in the beauty of the Creator…that camping, while posing the occasional hazard, is wonderful and restorative. It’s when we break ourselves, as humanity as a whole, into camps. Opposing camps…. That’s treacherous. Breaking into camps came full focus recently. […]
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Live Your Yoga
13 May 2016Live your yoga. That’s what my yoga instructor says when she ends class. I’ve been harried lately (please don’t send Lady Gillettes, that’s not what I mean). I’m inundated preparing for a June art exhibit, taking on a new medium and managing multiple travel plans. It’s made daily living ripe for chaos and slip-ups. In […]
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Pack Rattin’
06 May 2016Pack Rattin’ That’s right! Hang on tightly – because this is a confessional blog. Time for me to fess up and do some heavy duty penance no matter how embarrassing the admission is. I do it for YOU, because you just might be pack rattin’, too. Last week realized I’m motivated by over-commitment. I’ve noticed […]
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While I Was Busy Being Someone Else – Power of the Redux
29 Apr 2016(This share is over 3 1/2 years old and the 2nd post I ever wrote for “The Art of The Well Lived Life.” It was, in essence, my coming out post. I had some startling realizations While I was Busy Being Someone Else. I still feel this post relevant and poignant. Hoping, on this day, you […]
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Sometimes I Need a Jump Start
22 Apr 2016Sometimes I need a jump start. A real honest-to-goodness kick in the ass. Lately, I’ve been droning along…needing that jump start. It could’ve taken a good set of defibrillators to get me humming along. I’m kind of like a short order cook. When breakfast and lunch set in, I’m cooking on all the burners and […]
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The Price of Giving Too Mucho
15 Apr 2016(Since I’m on an undisclosed beach in Mexico, filling my own cup, (and draining the occasional shot glass) I thought you might like to read this again…or even for the first time, because I’ll bet you’ve been here, too – not the beach, but the place where you’ve given too mucho) My cup is almost […]
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Life is a Poem
08 Apr 2016It’s April – National Poetry Month. I’ve been spending March and April writing haiku – a form of Japanese poetry, in preparation for my upcoming June art exhibit with the talented Judy Jacobs titled “See it with Words.” This exhibit features writing and visual art. It opens […]
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No April Fool
01 Apr 2016I may have been a fool in March, but refuse to be an April Fool. No joke. The tail is wagging the dog in Michelle Land, and of course, the tail is my computer addiction and social media. Bear with me. I think I can pull this thing together before the end. Monday a bottle […]
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12-Steps and a Trip
25 Mar 2016(This is a modified re-post from July 2014. I still find computer addiction is an applicable issue. I’m getting better…I think. Maybe YOU’RE the one with the problem, now Since). Put me in a 12-Step program. I’ve been through one before, but that was eons ago. 12-Step programs offer fantastic structure with “rules for accountability […]
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Give Me Room
11 Mar 2016Give Me Room Give me room To be who I am To think how I think To believe what I believe Give me permission To be different from you To share those ideas To listen to yours Give me acceptance To walk in my light Extend me respect You know I’m your sister Allow me […]
