What Do You See?
I told you that I wanted to write about The Mission. While I am not writing so much about the movie itself, but the ideas that it represents, the movie itself is magnificent. The musical score, the physical beauty, the raw emotion and even the silence is done well. But the ideas, the simple ideas [...]
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Putting The Pieces Together
I really can’t remember the first time I saw The Mission with Jeremy Irons and Robert DeNiro. I do remember being moved in the depths of my soul. There are moments like that in our pasts that stick with us. I watched it again this weekend and I was no less affected. The reality is [...]
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Community is Belonging
There is a great deal of chatting these days, both on and offline about ‘community’ and its value. But in actuality, what is community? Do you have it? Do you experience community in your life? Some interesting perspective on community and “social capital” comes from these two books. In Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of [...]
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Parenting & June Cleaver
Growing up we always watched Leave it to Beaver. My brother loved the show. But in all of the times that I remember watching it, things always turned out perfectly. My life hasn’t been very “Beaver Cleaver.” I have often joked when people ask me about my husband’s family and mine that I came from [...]
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Backwards, Before Forward
The other night I found myself laughing my head off…at what? Tunes from the 70′s and 80′s flowing out of my mouth and my friend’s as we sang everything from Melissa Manchester’s Don’t Cry Out Loud to the obscure David Geddes’ Run Joey Run. We were amazed at how crystal clear our memories were that [...]
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What I Learned About Stories & Ideas from Jon Morrow
This journey into the cyberworld has often left me feeling completely inadequate. I have read about writing blogs, social media, e-books, and a plethora of other topics in the past year, but none of them have motivated me like the things that I have read about other people and their fight to get their ideas [...]
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In My Own Voice
Right now I am surrounded by index cards. They have a bunch of scribble scrabble that I have written on them. Ideas that I want to communicate that have been provoked by an array of sources. I want to be a writer. I think I can communicate well through the written word. There are things [...]
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Misunderstanding & Adam Braverman
I have done a terrible thing to Adam Braverman. I have misunderstood him. I have taken him out of context. I have taken bits of information about who he is, or statements that he has uttered and literally…summed up his person! (Yes, I know that he is a fictional character, but go with it!) I [...]
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Empathy 101 & Adam Braverman
Just read a post on Blogher about a mom who receives welfare. She is a single mom with two kids and she works full-time. She found herself in a quandary when she read a ‘friend’s’ Facebook comment that people on welfare should not have cell phones. Wow…really? It was a very interesting article and I [...]
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Out on a Limb
The whole purpose of my starting this blog was to pursue my passion of writing and using that writing to help other women. It has been a wonderful journey thus far, but no journey is without it’s detours and bumps in the road. Trying to write this e-book has been an excellent experience in practicing [...]
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I write to help other women know and value their authentic selves and to help them move towards contributing with passion to their worlds!
I believe women are the greatest life-givers in our society, yet many women, by mid-life, have fallen prey to losing themselves in the roles and expectations of their families, cultures and inner critics. They have lost their way and I believe, a true sense of self and ability to use their voices. Eleanor Roosevelt said that she believes we decide who we really are and then live with that decision.
I write with a two-fold purpose: to document my journey of learning and owning my true self and how it impacts my life, and to help other women do the same. I am not one who as arrived, but a fellow traveler. As I write, I hope my vulnerability connects me with others as they see their hopes, their foibles, their fears and aspirations in my story. And as we learn, and come to value our voices, we are not turned inward, but, on the contrary, we will become more connected to those around us.
Women who are able to learn, value and contribute are women who are living beyond the pale!
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