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Touching Grass: Gentle Intentions For The Year
Every year as December winds down, I start to think about what my resolutions will be for the upcoming year. Not that I am a big fan of that word;…
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The Power of Small Victories
Do you ever feel like you could really use a win? It doesn’t have to be anything huge, like a triumph in sports or scoring a promotion—though those are pretty…
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Adopting a Personal Approach to Blogging
Blogging Tips Revisited Before I first started my blog, I did a lot of research, focusing on what would make it successful. But the word success can be ambiguous, especially…
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Back to Blogging
Recently I have stepped away from my blog and focused more on creative writing. I have been working on an idea for a novel for some time now and it’s…
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Beyond Live Laugh Love: What is Your 3-Word Mantra?
We all have them. Words that we hear or read that inspire, motivate, and make us want to live our lives in a more positive way. In order to remember…
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Exiting The Comfort Zone in Retirement
When we are younger, we are often encouraged to push beyond our comfort zones in order to make progress. However, this is much easier said than done. Our comfort zone…
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Don’t Be A Fuddy Duddy: Staying Happy and Optimistic in A Changing World
It is a common opinion among the over-60 crowd that the world we live in today is considerably inferior to the one we grew up in. I hear about this…
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7 Ways I am Learning to Lighten Up in Midlife
It has always seemed to me that we live our lives in chapters and turning 60 began a new one for me. This stage seems like the perfect time to…
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Setting and Achieving Personal Goals in Later Life
Aside from a vague notion to write in some capacity, I never really thought too much about goal-setting in my retirement. Isn’t retirement a time to sit back and reap…
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Writing is Making Me a (Happy) Hermit
As I looked forward to retirement a couple of years ago I understood that my life would slow down. What I didn’t foresee was how much would change about me.…
