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What if Your Body is as Good as it Gets?

What if Your Body is as Good as it Gets?

  What if I told you that your body may be as good as it gets? Right now? Today? Yes,…
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Kindness and Compassion Please!

Kindness and Compassion Please!

  When Mother’s Day is hard, it can be a day of conflicting emotions. The week leading up to it…
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Encouraging Spring’s Potential in Others

Encouraging Spring’s Potential in Others

  Winter is my least favorite time of the year. Trees are bare wood pointing towards nothing in particular. Flowers…
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Yay for Mistakes! Part 7 | Mistaking Paradise

Yay for Mistakes! Part 7 | Mistaking Paradise

  Why do we search so hard for and dream about a mistake free day? The perfect day? 24 hours…
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Living in a Different Land and Reality

Living in a Different Land and Reality

I watch my son build a Lego city. A round parking garage takes shape. High rises sprout around the city…
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Isn’t It Wonderful?

Isn’t It Wonderful?

  Isn’t it wonderful how cozy and smooth a freshly made bed feels? Isn’t it wonderful how the right shoes…
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Does Happily Ever After Really Exist?

Does Happily Ever After Really Exist?

We grow up on “Happily Ever After.” The book ends happy. The movie ending makes us sigh with contentment. The…
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Remembrances and Winding Country Roads

Remembrances and Winding Country Roads

My son and I are driving to Meramec State Park on a sultry day. Windows down, Hank the Cowdog  audio…
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Why flowers, you may be thinking? Doesn't she have any friends or know any people? Attempting to get to the bottom of your questions, and my fascination with flowers, I conducted a Q & A.

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Striving for a life of perfection has no story. No humor. No memories. Forget perfection and go for human. Embrace the mistakes. No one remembers the nearly perfect Thanksgiving. But everyone talks for years about the Thanksgiving where Mr. Tom jumped from the platter while dad was attempting to carve him, slid across the table, and landed in Uncle Frank's lap. Ten years later they are still laughing about it, connecting over the story, and rejoicing in the adventure.

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