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clichés, quotes & truisms
- from love & rockets to shakespeare -
- from the breakfast club to deepak chopra -
- from my therapist to the random southern gent on the street -
sometimes real, profound and deep; sometimes simply funny; sometimes both
Emotions Are Safe. Emotions Are Teachers. Emotions Are Healers.
Emotions can be scary and overwhelming, but they don't have to be! We just need to recognize that they are safe and they are teachers.
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8 min read
Divorce Can Feel Harder Than Death
My father died suddenly in 2022, and my marriage entered hospice months later. I can say the latter, which was protracted, was worse.
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11 min read
A Journey Of A Thousand Miles Begins With A Single Step - Tao Te Ching
Today Is Step One…In Stilettos Rock Studs by Valentino. Or as I like to call them, my Wonder Woman shoes. This is my first post in quite...
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7 min read
It's Okay To Not Be Okay - Part 2
We agree...yes? So, then what? In my last post, I discussed the newly minted cliché It’s Okay To Not Be Okay. I sang its praises for...
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11 min read
It's Okay To Not Be Okay
A (Welcome) Cliché Brought To Us By 2020
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8 min read
Embracing the Contradictions and Complexities That Make Us Human
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions - Charles Caleb Colton As I sit here drafting my own obituary in my head, I’m...
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8 min read
She Believed She Could. So She Did.
An Open Letter To Myself (And Anyone Else Who Needs To Hear This) See that girl over there? She was brave, fearless and driven. She had...
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7 min read
This Too Shall Pass
You Are The Sky. Not The Thunder, Lightning, Clouds or Rain. You Are The Sky.
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7 min read
The Fifteen Minute Pity Party (With Flex Time)
Go Ahead And Throw One - If Beyoncé Can Have One, Then So Can You
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8 min read
A Letter I Will Never Get To Send
But Don't Need To: A Merry File.
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4 min read
A Call to SCOTUS: Stand In Defense Of Your Co-equal Branch
A Collective Statement The Supreme Court Justices Should Release
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2 min read
What's In A Name?
My name ain't Susan. Or Mack for that matter.
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5 min read
My Birthday Wish(es).
An Open Letter To My Sons.
On this day, my 48th birthday, I wish upon you many gifts.
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3 min read
Said The Buddha: Don't Judge Others, Because You Are Not Perfect
As did Bob Marley. And my mother. And me. And also, duh…
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9 min read
Stop And Smell The Roses
Yeah, I know. It's not a rose. But that's not really the point...
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5 min read
Live, Love, Learn, LAUGH
I won’t remember each time I laugh or what it was that made me laugh, but I’ll never forget the first time.
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6 min read
To Thine Own Self Be True...But First, Know Thyself - Part I
A Socrates and Shakespeare mash up!
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11 min read
To Thine Own Self Be True...But First, Know Thyself - Part Deux (an interlude)
"Who Are You? Who Are You? I am a walrus."
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12 min read
To Thine Own Self Be True...But First, Know Thyself - Finale (finally...)
"I am what I am and that's all what I am"
Popeye
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8 min read
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