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An Epiphany at TJ Maxx

08.03.2011

So, I decided, I will, then, be a hag. Are you horrified? Ready to hit the delete key? Well, hear me out first…

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The Case for Falling in Love

07.15.2011

“This is a book for those who are tired of hearing that men and women dwell in two mismatched emotional universes…”

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Buying A Bed

02.22.2011

However, my logic was that this is the last bed we are ever going to own, so why shouldn’t it be comfortable? We are not getting any younger, right? So I told him I thought we should get the more expensive bed.

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Downsizing Your New Year’s Resolutions

01.06.2011

[B]ig plans or ideas can loom so large that they can block the view of the little things behind them— which in the long run are sometimes just as significant or satisfying.

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Thoughts for the New Year: Imagination and Spirituality

12.31.2010

…Active Imagination in which you actively engage with the images that rise up in your mind and dialogue with them….can be amazingly eye-opening.

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Election 2010: The Rant

10.31.2010

Protest voters. “Throw the bums out. Anyone but someone who’s in office.” You’re the ones who voted for Ralph Nader and got us instead George Bush. Thanks a bunch.

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Planning For The Rest of My Life

10.25.2010

Part of that personal plan is going to address my new status as a single woman. I’ve been here several times in recent years and one would think I’d have the whole without a man thing firmly in control by now. Alas.

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The Dreaded Decision: Putting a Parent in a Nursing Home

10.11.2010

But when he left the gas stove on for the fourth time, I knew something had to change.

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The Runaway Bride Syndrome: Accommodating Yourself Out Of Existence

09.23.2010

“Entitled,” he said, with disdain. And, you know what, I am entitled–to a life of comfort and satisfaction as defined by me. Of course, that wasn’t the way he meant it.

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I’m Not Selling My Soul–Just Trying to Keep MidLifeBloggers Going

09.19.2010

I’m stuck in a house worth about $150K less than what I paid for it in a neighborhood that is superb for families with small children, but for those of us who are single women of a certain age–not so much.

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