feeling my way to freedom

January 23, 2012
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Welcome guest blogger Stacia from MyFluffyBunnies! One Sunday last August, I crashed a Vespa on vacation in Florence. My tibia cracked just below the knee, right there on the dusty Tuscan roadside. After four days in the hospital, I had surgery. Four days after that, my husband and I finally flew home to Romania. Home. [...]

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how do you (break the) measure up?

January 17, 2012
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I measure myself constantly. Do I measure up? Was the dinner I made tasty enough? Nutritious enough? Did I get enough exercise? Am I working hard enough to move my business forward? Cutting myself enough slack to remember that’s the formula to be kind to my family? There is always an invisible bar against which [...]

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get clean = get peaceful

January 10, 2012
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The simplest days are often my favorites. Sometimes I forget this. That’s why almond butter and rice cakes are my altared space today. I’m using January to clean out and let go. My friends Demi, Sarah and Debra are leading a community cleanse. Cleansing my body is about a whole lot more than food. As [...]

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3 ways to clean your way out of a bad mood plus bonus

January 6, 2012
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  I have the post holiday blues. I had so much fun decorating cookies and skiing with Santa that the return to work this Monday was a bit of a let down even if I do adore my job. I also had mouth surgery and I find the hole in my mouth leaves a deeper [...]

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“i don’t know” prayers

December 29, 2011
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Welcome guest poet Rosemerry Trommer! No Hurry To Find Out Joan asks me what happens after we die, and I don’t know, but I do know how to stand beside the river and see a shrine in every rock I find, which is how I spent the day yesterday. And I know that walking today [...]

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peeling back the plenty

December 24, 2011
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Every year we find a penny and an orange in the toe of our stockings. It reminds me to be grateful for small things. I love the fresh aroma of that small ball as I peel back the skin and my nose welcomes the smell of snow and skiing and childhood winter snacks. The penny [...]

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darkness and light

December 19, 2011
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Welcome guest author Lindsey of A Design So Vast! In the last few years I have grown more aware of, and more intimate with, the powerful relationship I have with both light and dark, but the truth is it’s a theme that has run through my whole life. There’s no better example of this than [...]

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december dilemma

December 14, 2011
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Welcome guest blogger Kristen from Motherese! This year Christmas falls smack dab in the middle of Hanukkah. This fact would have meant nothing to me as a child. Now it means a lot. Growing up, I was a good Catholic girl who went to a Catholic school in a largely Catholic town. I went to [...]

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what do you tell your kids about santa?

December 8, 2011
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I have never had the talk with my children about Santa. This is because I never wanted to let myself overhear that bit of news. I grew up in a home where I wasn’t allowed to believe. Jesus was the reason for the season and Santa was merely a distraction. But then we had huge [...]

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embrace the pauses

December 6, 2011
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The house in which I grew up was alternately silent and boisterous. At a big dinner table I often found it difficult to ask for the salt let alone voice my opinion. SuziCate is my guest today and she speaks to the crowded dinner tables during the month of December. I hope you find some solace [...]

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counting down to connect at christmas time

December 1, 2011
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I smelled my mother 3 years after she died while I was standing in the grocery store. Heaven’s Scent walked right past me while I was deciding between Cheerios and Kix. I abandoned the cereal and stalked followed that aroma for 3 aisles, inhaling all the while. I pretended to look at ketchup and coffee. When [...]

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