Can Sarah Find Herself?

July 5, 2011

If you haven’t seen the TV production of Finding Sarah, you may just want to check it out on OWN.  Sarah, better known as the Duchess of York, better known as Fergie, bares her soul and confesses that if she won’t be able to find herself, she thinks she will die. Once upon a time [...]

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Getting Unstuck

May 24, 2011

There is nothing more painful than the feeling of being stuck in a life that you want to change.  For me, it’s worse than having a really bad toothache (and I’ve had many of them), because at least with a toothache there is a definite solution—you can drag yourself off to a dentist!  But being [...]

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Never underestimate the power of a thought

May 9, 2011

  If someone posted the following profile on an on-line dating site, how successful do you think they would be in finding a great partner? I’m getting old (39).   I’m scared that my biological clock will run out.  I desperately want to be married.  My opinion of men is generally negative.  Most of my dates [...]

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Watch out for those emotions.

April 26, 2011

Something wonderful happened to me seven years ago—I fell down a dry pond and shattered my elbow in seven places.  Actually, the experience was pretty awful, and I remember asking my husband:  Why did this happen to me? Did bad things just randomly happen out of the blue?  And if so, how the heck am [...]

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How the heck can I find Joy?

April 26, 2011

Joy is right under your nose.

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Get out of the shade.

March 27, 2011

What a time it is to be alive. Governments are crumbling. Leaders are being kicked out. Economies are collapsing. Unions are closed down. Tsumnamis are sweeping over us. The planet is moving fast. Are you keeping up with it all? I don’t know about you, but when I observe all of the changes that are [...]

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Step into your future.

March 27, 2011

I’ve always loved that scene in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy—who up until that point has been filmed in black and white—opens a door and steps into a wonderful world of color.  It’s pure magic. For the first 12 years of my young life, I remember only seeing the color grey.  You see, I [...]

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I want to be seen.

March 27, 2011

You’d never know it, but that’s me in the photo. I’ve been bundled up like this for three long months to protect myself from a cold Maine winter. Every day before going out for my walk, I put on layer upon layer of clothing, and by the time that red scarf gets wrapped around my [...]

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He loves me–he loves me NOT

February 9, 2011

The smell of love is everywhere.   It’s Valentine’s Day, and Harvard Square has become Red Square.  It’s already been predetermined that “I will love on this day, damn it!”  And the rows upon rows of Hallmark cards I’m gazing at just about cover every imaginable loving relationship—spouses, grandmas, friends, co-workers, even the family dog!  But [...]

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Do you hear voices?

February 9, 2011

The year is 1995:  I have just completed a Masters Degree in English Literature.   I have a brand new career and some hefty challenges in life:  like how to get high school kids to write complete sentences; and the biggest of all, how to get them to appreciate Shakespearean Sonnets.  I have endless papers to correct, lesson plans [...]

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