Category: Words
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Love and Sex
Well Hello. Now that I have your attention, let’s be honest. How many of you are dreading Valentine’s Day? Ah, February, month of love and undue pressure to either a) have a significant other to take on a romantic dinner date or b) buy that significant other some trinket that says just how much you…
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Ignore Him, That Works
Why is it that so many women, I guess men too, think that ignoring their spouse or partner is the way to fix a problem or win an argument? Last I checked most humans can’t read minds. Love doesn’t work that way. People need to know what the problem is to correct it. It’s pretty…
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What Color is your Hope?
I see hope as yellow. Like the sunshine. Others see hope blue like calm water or white like purity easily lost. Hope is a dream a wish for something to come. It isn’t faith. Faith is something you have that says you trust someone else or yourself to do a thing or keep a promise.…
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What’s Your Story
“Do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on.” ~ unknown I have always loved the quote above. It is more than a quip about not judging others. It reminds us that everyone has a story. What you see when you interact with a person is one page in the story of…
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Weird is Relative
How many times have you done something that you knew other people would consider weird? How many times have you actually been called weird? Why be like everyone else? Be unique. Be brave. Be different. Be fabulous. In my family we have a motto, “Embrace the weird!” Don’t worry about what others think. Just be…
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On Loss and Sadness
This is my last post for awhile about death. Another teenager, yes that is correct, another teenager, in one of my daughters’ schools committed suicide, my friend is in hospice and my heart hurts from memories of personal loss. What is wrong with the world? Can’t you see, humans, that there is enough sadness on…
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When to Walk
Every human should know when to walk away and you do know. It is hidden in that small voice that whispers to your good common sense. It is not easy to admit it to ourselves that our time at a place or with a person is done. Most often others see it before we do.…
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Assumptions are Dangerous
You know what they say about assuming. Who they are I have no idea, but the saying goes, “To assume makes an ass of you (U) and me.” I have to admit I assume things. Often when I do, it is the negative that I assume. As in, “He will hate this.” or “He thinks…
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Life is Fragile
I have this plant. I’ve managed to keep it alive for about three months knowing nothing about it. I’m not even sure I know what type it is. I have it in a pot with a sprig of spider plant. I think I need to repot it and move it. A couple of leaves have…
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Broken and still Useful
Why is it that God seems to choose the sinner over the righteous to do his work? Isaiah preached naked. Rahab was a prostitute. The Samaritan woman was divorced…more than once…Paul was a murderer. Moses was a murderer and couldn’t talk. Noah was a known drunk. The chosen king David coveted another man’s wife and…
Brendan & Lori O'Gara 