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The Possibilities are Endless

02 Saturday Jan 2016

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breaking habits, change, hope, perspective, possibilities, pursuing dreams

Beautiful sky

A few years ago, I heard an interview of a man jailed for political activism. When questioned about how he survived years of imprisonment, he responded, “When I walked in the prison yard, I looked up at the clouds. I was still free to see the sky, free to breathe the air. I was never a prisoner, because no one can imprison your mind. I just had to change my perspective.”

These were life-altering words for me, a message that radically altered my understanding of self-imposed limitations. If a man walks a prison courtyard path trod into a rut by thousands of inmates before him, and can still lift his head and recognize that his spirit is free, surely I could find ways to untangle myself from old habits and assumptions that limit my own life experiences. Continue reading →

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Fight the Good Fight

13 Tuesday Oct 2015

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attraction, body image, exercise, keeping the spark, marriage, narcissism, self image, sexy, staying fit, weight loss

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Sitting in a hot dog shop with my best friend at the age of fifteen, we made a pledge to move in with each other when we were old and our husbands were dead (age sixty, we figured) and eat as much as we wanted, all of the time, until we died happy.

Sad to say, we’d already put in years of dieting. The short, curvy stature we shared required vigilance and self-control. Our guiltiest pleasure was to imagine overdosing on ice cream and chocolate. Continue reading →

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Ever the black sheep of her adoptive family, Lee Cooper has finally buckled down to a responsible job as a social worker in Southwest Florida. Defending her client against charges of child abuse awakens buried memories of her own abandonment in a Korean orphanage. Can she remain objective for the sake of a child? Bricker Kilbourn, the court-appointed guardian, doubts Lee’s judgments--and his opinion might determine the little boy’s fate. He's got his own family issues and haunting secrets to keep. Falling for a woman is not part of his plan. He’s running from his past. She’s searching for answers. Will their resolution to protect a child bind them together or wrench them apart?

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