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Out of the Box
When we are young, we believe that the future contains unlimited choices for us — who do you want to be when you grow up? You can be anything! Go for it. But as we enter the third chapter of our lives, many of us find that our field of choices have narrowed. We chose a career, a life path, and then after a couple of decades, we feel as if we’re stuck with it. Obligations and responsibilities have piled up, and eventually it seems impossible to change our direction. Now, instead of choices and control, our lives can seem to be made up of consequences. All those years spent…
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The Re-Invented Self
I’m writing this blog because I’m hoping to help myself as well as others. Together, I hope we can: Figure out who we want to be when we grow up. I’ve never thought my identity was set in stone. I always thought reinventing myself was fun, not frightening. As long as I can choose who I’m going to become, it’s all good, right? I am whoever I say I am. Right?? Well….just the other day, we took my son to his college orientation program. Everything was great until one of the student leaders thought I was my son’s grandmother, not his mother! That was a blow. I’d talked myself into believing…
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Healthy Writer – The Original Post
This is me. I’m still astonished to find that I’m now 60 years old. How did that happen? Along with the mystery of how I got this old, I’ve got other conundrums to contemplate, like: How come I gained all this weight? When did my health take a nose-dive? And, last but not least, what can I do about it? The answers to the first two questions are pretty simple: 1) I’m a writer, and spend most of my day sitting in front of my laptop surfing the Net doing Important Writing Tasks, and 2) I stopped exercising regularly and eating healthy. That third question’s the kicker: What can I…
