My baseline emotion tends to be worry, and I tend to keep my worries to myself. When I was alone raising my kids by myself, I worried constantly about whether or not I was doing a good job. Even though …
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I met my first boyfriend in 1985 in San Antonio Texas. I was ten years old. Neil Peltier was the cutest blonde kid you’ve ever seen. He would ride his bike, pass the community pool, to my house so we …
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I used to spend so much time agonizing about past relationships (ex-teachers). I used to rack my brain about why something happened the way it did. You may have heard me say that everyone we have ever been with in …
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Who else out there wants everything right now? I’ve always been like that. So impatient. I used to say patience is a virtue…that I don’t have. Especially now when we live in an “Amazon-every-thing-you-ever-wanted-can-be-delivered-today” world…it’s even harder to wait. Being …
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My sister Kristen introduced me to “Rather Be” by Clean Bandit, feat. Jess Glynne in the summer of 2014, my last single summer, when we did our sisters trip to Folly Beach South Carolina, one of many favorite places, and …
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I just heard about the study that a nurse, Bronnie Ware, did…she visited thousands of patients on their deathbed and asked them all what they regretted the most. The number one response was “I wish I would’ve let myself be …
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I used to say, “I want to marry someone like John Stanley.” I knew him for years when I was single, and I never EVER thought I would date him, but literally said that several times. I noticed things about …
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This reminds me so much of my single days. I’d blast this song while I was cleaning and when it got to the part where she says: The time is right now You got to decide Stand in the back …
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Come Alive – The Greatest Showman on My Love Playlist I love everything about this song – you’re a dead man walking if you think that’s your only option, and you can flip the switch and brighten up your …
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