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The Power of Little Choices
This afternoon I’m tubing with my kids and my sister’s family. Not the lazy tubing we do behind a pontoon boat with an egg-beater motor at our tiny little lake in Missouri… but Texas tubing, which was more like being dragged behind a wake the size and shape and intensity…
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Memory Lane
Nostalgia’s on overdrive today as some mysterious force lured me down Memory Lane. This is my old Catholic grade school, up high on the bluffs of the Mississippi River, butting up to a national military barracks and cemetery. The school shut down years ago – replaced by a private academy…
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A Call for Peace in a World of Hate
I was quiet yesterday about the horrible news of the nightclub massacre in Orlando because I just couldn’t quite process it. Forty-nine people dead and more than that injured. I wanted to write a message of peace and hope and love, but the words didn’t come. For 24 hours, no…
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On Botox and Braces
When I was 16, I got into a fight with a petite Italian girl whose gloriously curly hair reminded me of strands of extra-long rotini. We fought over a boy, in the parking lot of the pizza joint where we both worked. She may have been small, but she packed…
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You Can’t Drown Out Happiness
Laying in bed, listening to my little bird friends singing their morning songs, when a rain storm passes through. The thing I notice the most? THE BIRDS NEVER STOP SINGING. They’re getting dumped on, but they keep on singing their happy songs. Thanks for leading by example, bird friends. Proof…
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How Do You Know When The Time Is Right?
Spring is in full bloom in my hometown of St. Louis – red buds, magnolias, cherry trees – each sight more lovely than the last. This is a significant time of renewal for most of us, I think – at least it has been for me for the last dozen years or so. One…
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You Can Do It — With More or Less
The next time you tell yourself that “it” can’t be done because you’re feeling too old/tired/dumb/ugly/weak/scared/fat/crazy — or any of the other silly stuff we say to ourselves — I want you to call bullshit and remember all the people who have accomplished amazing things even though they may have……
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Building Ourselves Up One Brick at a Time
Stopped for lunch at a little café where, across the street, a new building is going up. There’s a lot of hammering, and yelling, and a lot of guys in hard hats and steel-toed boots (just like that little orange dude). Sometimes we see stuff being built and think, “Wow,…
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How Gratitude Puts Life in Perspective
Snow day in St. Louis yesterday = a practice in gratitude. I will confess that gratitude was not my first instinct upon hearing the news. No, Step One was resisting the urge to scream into my pillow. Step Two was to post something kinda snotty in a FB group for fellow…
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