Tomorrow is not a guarantee. Life is unpredictable and tenuous. Tell those you love you love them, frequently. Try to do something for someone else each day. Let go of things that don’t matter. Be more open to others. Hold on to friends not tension. Look someone in the eye. Smile. Say good morning....
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Kady has been away for two days and is home tonight. Though we are both more than capable of handling baby duties when the other has to travel it’s always better when we are together. Kady is the best partner I could have asked for. She’s hard working. Loving. Thoughtful. Diligent. And very funny...
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Parenting is full of highs and lows. Take in the special moments when they happen. ...
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Writing these posts is hard when I’m disappointed in myself. It feels fake to try to share advice or a story when I can’t even manage my own emotions. My whole life this has been my biggest struggle: mastering my emotions. I’m not talking about crying when you are sad or having a physical...
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Maybe binging is a good thing? ...
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To you. Not to anyone else. Something that lights you up. Makes you feel alive. Makes you want to pour your energy and soul into it. I find myself with a constant restlessness on the weekends. Chores and things keeping me from lazing about on the couch. I want to make the house pretty...
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We work hard. Recover. And do it all again. Over and over. But where are the rewards? Often in our work the rewards and few and far between. Even worse irregular and unpredictable. Hard work is constant but does not equal constant pay off. And is that sustainable? There’s more to doing rewarding work...
Continue readingBlond, Blue-Eyed, And Diabolical
Take a simple idea. Then place it in the hands of a group of kids between the ages of 9-11. You’ll get a wide variety of interpretations. And they will span the spectrum from logical to nonsensical to hilarious to just plain weird. But each one of them will have little hints of genius....
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Change is a constant. There’s no need to get bogged down. Opportunities abound. Everything keeps moving forward. Learn. Learn. Learn. More importantly remember what you learned. And then apply it. It will all be ok. Go have drinks with your team. If you’re holding too tight to things staying the same you are going...
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Tonight I had dinner with a friend that I haven’t seen in a while. It was so good to catch up and talk. It was like no time had passed even though we went from seeing each other every day to a couple times a year. We talked. I laughed out loud several times....
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