A New Relationship

"It's been a long day without you, my friend, and I'll tell you all about it when I see you again."Charlie Puth I stared at the ring on my right index finger, five small diamonds in the shape of a star, gleaming in the sun shining through my car windows, and, not for the first …

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Leaning into the Lemons

Lemon: a person or thing that proves to be defective, imperfect, or unsatisfactory; dud" I knew I shouldn't send the email. I was on vacation, in Italy, and to her credit, my future boss had told me to disconnect. But I'd told her I wasn't going to completely. While I was set to explore the rugged beauty …

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Living Your Passion

Find something that makes you happy and fixate on it. That is the answer to all things. It's the answer to getting everything that you want." -Abraham Hicks What is your why? It's been months since I put that quote in my iPhone "Notebook" application reserved for blog post inspirations; so long, in fact, that …

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A Flutter of Wings

It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wings can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world." -- Chaos Theory 11-2. I'm not sure why, but for some reason, this year seems to have been marked so far by a host of references back to the late nineties …

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Traveling Through Life

The Universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, look around, to believe in something more, something else." -Unknown I sipped my Belgian wheat beer, or "Weiss" beer as I'd been trained to say during my six days in Germany just before, and savored the malty …

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