Have you ever heard a song that takes you back to a past memory? Just a few words and you are transported to another time in your life? Some songs have a way of doing that to me. Hearing No Doubt always sends me to my teen years, sitting by a pool, basking in the…
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Do you ever wish you could go back to your new mama self and whisper some words of advice to her. I know for a fact that if I could do it all over again, I would have been more gentle and forgiving on myself. I decided to write her a letter filled with the…
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In feudal Japan the word Ronin referred to a samurai that had lost his master. Rather than follow the “Code of the Warrior” and commit suicide after the death of his master, a Ronin would defy this rule and live a life on his own. Meaning “wave man,” a Ronin was known as one that…
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I sat in the Trader Joe’s parking lot staring at my cart full of pumpkins. I was sure that my husband, the minimalist in our relationship, was going to have a heart attack at the sight of all the pumpkins I had just purchased. I couldn’t help myself though. They were all so unique and…
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With all the things that we know come along with pregnancy and those early newborn days, why do we ask women chose to do it more than once?
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