Category: reflections on life

#MADMlinkup: Words Matter

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I am really bad at negative self-talk. Or, maybe I’m really good at it? Now I’ve confused myself. I’m an expert at talking negatively about myself. What I realized this weekend, however, was that sometimes all you can do is believe in yourself just a little bit more than you have before. On Saturday, I…

Stranger than Fiction

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Have you seen “Stranger than Fiction”? This is one of my favorite movies, although not one I feel the urge to watch often. When I do watch it, however, it stirs my heart and mind and makes me feel more creative. I remember being a little girl and thinking that I was the character in…

Be Where You Are

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Confession: I don’t spend nearly enough time living in the present. Instead, I do a great job of remembering all the great things in my past or wondering and longing for my future. But, as for just living in the moment…I’m not so good at that.  I decided my One Word in 2012 would be…

The One Person

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I hope you had a merry and wonderful Christmas! One of my favorite gifts by far was a box of signed young adult books by first time authors.  My mom is friends with a woman who recently published “The Geek Girl’s Guide to Cheerleading” and she donated the box to a silent raffle for Black…