Photo by Jamie Haughton on Unsplash Don’t be sucked into other peoples ridiculous schemes by being too polite to say “no.” I call it a WIN (WTF. I love you. No.) when future dissatisfaction with my decisions around my family and friends is prevented. I have managed to set up a comfortable life for myself as …
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Photo by freestocks. org from Pexels My nail technician remembered me after eight years. It changed my day from dark to bright. I recently returned to my home in Palm Harbor, FL from Austin, TX. I was gone for eight years, renting out my home while I worked in Austin. I was having one of those …
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Photo by Nextvoyage from Pexels You don’t know what you don’t know. Keep going. Self-publish your book. Writing my first book almost broke me. I self-published. I believed that self-publishing would take the delay out of the process. I was wrong. Self-publishing added an overabundance of new non-writing related tasks that took time to learn to …
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Image by skeeze from Pixabay 123 pounds Lost. Counting down the last 15 pounds. (Part 11) Today my weight is the lowest it has been in many years. I am 173.3 pounds. I should be happy. I’m not. I’m exhausted. I have been fighting the same 15 pounds for eight weeks. I was bouncing back and …
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Image by Jose Antonio Alba from Pixabay In my mind, my choices were to live a boring life of poverty or run off with a much older man who promised a glamorous, expensive lifestyle. I ran off with the man. I didn’t know it but the man, Leo, wanted me to fund that seductive lifestyle by …
