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Balancing Balance Part XII: You Get Just This One Life – Embrace the One You’ve Got!

“Did you hear about that woman who ran off and left her family? She had a husband and little kids and everything. Can you believe that?” Now and then you hear a story about somebody who does that – a woman abandons her family, sometimes for another man, but sometimes for reasons unclear. I had […]

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Balancing Balance Part XI: When Changes Come – Staying Light on My Feet

We have spent a good bit of time in this series talking about how to choose and manage the various activities that make up our lives.  We have thought about how to recognize the ways we spend our time. We have discussed how our personal filters act as gatekeepers to let in worthwhile pursuits and […]

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Unsolicited Advice Book Report Edition: Bringing Up Bebe; One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman

Before-you-read-further-caveat Repeat this aloud: Lori is an imperfect human being. Therefore, Lori is an imperfect child of God, wife, mother, daughter, friend, and advisor. In some fashion, she messes up pretty much every day, so I must not read her words and think: She believes she is perfect. She believes she is superior to me. […]

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{pretty, happy, funny, real}: The Day I Ate Exactly What I Wanted for Dinner

This post wanted to be about a day I had earlier this week when I imagined I could literally feel hormonal substances racing through my circulatory system, which can’t be right at all because as I understand it menopause involves the absence of the hormones that keep us females steady and smiling, but why-oh-why does PMS/menopause […]

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Unsolicited Advice: Quick! Before You Go to the Grocery Store

Virtually every household has at least one member who makes regular trips to a grocery store, and if you are reading this blog, I bet you are the one. Some like food shopping, some hate it — I can go either way, and whether or not I’ve obeyed my own unsolicited advice has a lot […]

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Decluttering: Life Revelations Available Here

In ordered homes, decluttering is a process that gets repeated over and over in some way or another. You may do it on a regular schedule, as the need arises, or when desperate times call for desperate measures, but all of us practice some form of decluttering often enough, if only by taking the weekly trash to […]

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Balancing Balance, Part IX: Which Extras Get to Be in My Life?

The other posts in the Balancing Balance series: Part I: Embracing the TruthPart II: Personal FiltersPart III: Do I Have the Right to Choose My Filters?Part IV: Personal Filters for Life ManagementPart V: What are Your Family’s Gatekeeper Filters?Part VI: Where Does Your Time Go?Part VII: Categorizing My Life’s Big Chunks, Little Chunks, and Nuggets […]

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Gingering Up January

January can be a difficult time for some people. The days are short, the air outside is too cold for comfort (and inside it is too dry for the same), and the colors are austere. There are no fresh vegetables from the frozen garden. The holiday parties are past, and the daffodils are weeks away. […]

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When Mom Takes a Powder

The whole last week has been Pretty, Happy, Funny, and Real. And there are no pictures, because I got a new laptop and am still trying to learn how to handle photos. (I thought I had it figured it out, but when I tried to upload something here — nada. That’s real.) Blank page. New […]

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Pretty, Happy, Real, and (The Husband’s) Funny

It’s time for another addition of Pretty, Happy, Funny, Real — only today, my version is Pretty, Happy, Real, Funny. This is a Thursday link-up brought to you by the great ladies at Like Mother, Like Daughter. Click here to read what’s happening this week in Leila’s life and to find other links to other bloggers’ […]

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