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I started writing this post on Christmas Eve 2018, three days after my party celebrating my retirement from the City of Folsom after 21 years of service. The good, the bad, the punching walls in stalls of the ladies’ room so I wouldn’t punch an actual person, such as that annoying next door neighbor that…
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When you can’t leave the past in the past, but you want to heal.
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Sometimes we need to stop merely existing and instead begin fully living.
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The Upside of the Childhood TV Ban
artist of the word, childhood TV ban, children, Cogito ergo sum, family, friends, grandparents, I think therefore I am, Idiot Box, Je pense donc je suis, Lest we forget, Memorial Day weekend, movies, music, my dad, Netflix, others, reincarnation, Rene Descartes, Scotland, self entertaining, significant, slack-jawed, spouses, survival skills, television, ultimate price, upside, veterans, wordsmithI was driving from here to there the other day with one of my brothers and his close friend and we were discussing books, reading, television and just how we entertain ourselves in general. I realized through the course of the conversation that my father (again) was ahead of his time in realizing the damaging…
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Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk. -Rumi Intuition, that quiet little inner voice that guides me, keeps me out of danger and helps me to realize my true path has been screaming at me as of late. I have so much packing, storing and cleaning to do and so little…