Posts Tagged ‘blog raw’

How To Face A Monday Morning

How to face a Monday morning when anxiety strikes and you really, really, really don’t want to go out that door and face the day?  
I don’t have a magic spell to make a Monday morning easier to face or a quick fix either, but I do manage to plow ahead and make it through the day and [...]

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Role Models Make A Difference

I recently posted on the topic of Role Models on the Blue Ribbon Bloggers blog (that I am happily a member of).   
It got me to thinking just how much of a difference role models make in our lives.  Even if their influence isn’t manifested until later in life, having a positive influence, kindness, and [...]

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Curiosity saved my life but…

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This is part PART 2 
Continued from Part 1: Curiosity may have killed the cat (cervical cancer surgery in 1970’s)
A part of me was disappointed that I woke up from the surgery,and not just because it hurt; all I could do was move my fingers at first and I was so thirsty I could barely [...]

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Curiosity may have killed the cat

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But it actually saved my life once.  I was barely 20 years old (early 1970’s) when I was having a gyn checkup at the local Planned Parenthood clinic - it was cheap and all I could afford. The doctor left the room, I was curious and flipped through my chart. There were some [...]

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Sometimes you can only breathe

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I survived childhood by learning to not feel, not think, to curl up tight and close my eyes and barely breathe. However, you can’t survive very long without one day learning how to breathe.
Through my teens and early adulthood some days it was all I could manage to do, just lie still and [...]