Best birthday gift

  Today my daughter, Candace, aka Candy, turns 11 today. I was thinking about what to give her for her birthday and of course I got introspective, if you have not noticed I do that a lot, and started thinking what would be the best gift I could ever give her. Let her be Candy.  When naming [...]

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You wear black a lot

I was driving home from the gym a few months ago and called Keith, my husband, and said, “What do I look like?”. There was silent pause, he said, “You are a lady that wears black a lot.” … What I meant but did not say, I am having a bad day, everyone at the gym looked perfect, I felt fat, my extra weight was not coming off quick enough and I wanted him to tell me how great he thought I was doing and looked.

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Eating a whale

My father always likes to say, “You can eat an entire whale,  one bite at a time”.   His statement came to mind the other day as I was driving to the gym at 5:00 a.m.  I realized I had come to  a totally different places in my life  physically and emotionally. For many years I had a lot of [...]

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