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The One and Only You I believe that being ourselves, growing into our skin and becoming comfortable with who we are is a lifelong process. Perhaps it’s because we go through so many different ages and stages of life and have to grow accustomed to each of those ages and stages.  There’s childhood, teen, young…

Stop Being Miserable My friend and I talk regularly and I can tell by the tone of her voice, how she is doing. As long as I’ve known her, she’s encountered physical and mental obstacles that wear her down. Recently though, her tone tells me that she is feeling perky, even cheery.  So I had…

Small Things I’ve always liked this quote by Vincent Van Gogh, “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”  This quote reminds me that the small things I do day in and day out matter much more than the one big thing I accomplish once in a while. As a matter…

The Doorway of Our Past We like to say, “What is past is past,” or “That’s water under the bridge.” Yet, I think that, “Sometimes we have to jimmy the doorway of our past to understand our present,” is more apt when talking about days gone by. I get to teach adult swimming lessons. I…