Life, love and getting (amazing) stuff done
From the monthly archives:
1. Wait patiently for people.
2. Look opponents and friends in the eye.
3. Spend as much time as possible with people you love.
4. When you want something really bad, keep trying. As I’m writing this post by the front porch window, my dog keeps poking his nose through the curtains giving me the ol’ puppy [...]
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The only smart people in the world that know anything have a college degree to back it up. Yes, you heard me. Any beer guzzling, keg-standing loser can become a bonefied expert. But I’ll bet you’ve been through a lot, learned a lot, and solved lots of problems. So could it be possible, maybe, if [...]
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You may be wondering why an editor and columnist for Gannett would start this project.
First let me explain that my career hasn’t changed – I’m still the loyal editor and columnist for YOU magazine, HomeStyle and MomsLikeMe magazine. I started this project (with work’s blessing) because:
- I wanted to do something independent of my Gannett [...]
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When it comes to fitness, put me in the Prefer to do as Little as Possible with Hot Results category.
I wasn’t always such a fitness slacker. Like most brides, I worked out obsessively before my wedding. It was one of the few times I actually took a weight-lifting class where I pumped iron to [...]
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On paper, becoming a step mom didn’t seem like such a big deal.
After all, I had lived with Mr. Right and his kids for years before the wedding. But during our first year of marriage, the raw reality of responsibility began to sting.
Here was motherhood, staring me in the face, daring me to snap.
And I [...]
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