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What If You Changed Your Idea of What Truly Matters?

What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I am keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life.” — Donna Lynn Hope I’ve spent a lot of time thinking that my life hasn’t amounted to much. I never got the advanced degree…

Life

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What If You Changed Your Idea of What Truly Matters?
What If You Changed Your Idea of What Truly Matters?
Life

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Wise Woman Within

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Here’s What Happened When I Fell in Love With My Boss

It was not what I expected — In 2001, I met a man that my heart instantly recognized as the man I had been looking for my whole life. I was interviewing him for an article I was writing. He was the trails manager at a prestigious public garden. When I walked down the path to his…

Short Story

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Here’s What Happened When I Fell in Love With My Boss
Here’s What Happened When I Fell in Love With My Boss
Short Story

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Wise Woman Within

·1 day ago

What My Mother Taught me About Generosity

And how it still informs my life — When Mom died last summer, I found a stack of thank you notes squirreled away in her desk. They were mostly from people I didn’t know, although some were from family members. The theme of these notes was Mom’s generosity. One was from a woman who ran a program in…

Money

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What My Mother Taught me About Generosity
What My Mother Taught me About Generosity
Money

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Crow’s Feet

·May 16

Do You Have a Plan for When You Can No Longer Drive?

Giving up our independence is the hardest thing most of us will ever do. — If we are lucky enough to live into our 80s or 90s, most of us will lose at least some of our independence. Perhaps we will be unable to do the daily housekeeping tasks we have done easily in the past. Maybe we will have to hire someone to mow…

Aging

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Do You Have a Plan for When You Can No Longer Drive?
Do You Have a Plan for When You Can No Longer Drive?
Aging

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Crow’s Feet

·May 15

My Gift to Mom: Keeping the Promise I Made Before She Died

My first Mother’s Day without her — I woke up this morning with a heavy heart. I opened my eyes in my bed at my mother’s house, but she is not here. Not in body, anyway. Her spirit is all around me. Her ashes are in the garden, right outside the door. But more than that, her…

Mothers

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My Gift to Mom: Keeping the Promise I Made Before She Died
My Gift to Mom: Keeping the Promise I Made Before She Died
Mothers

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Crow’s Feet

·Apr 29

What Will Happen to My Journals When I Die?

Pondering what a journal-keeper should do with the record of their life — Journaling is the map of my human experience and the compass of my soul. Bethany Auriel-Hagan I have been a journal keeper for most of my life. There have been many times that I have started and stopped, only partially filling a journal before it was abandoned to the busyness…

Journaling

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What Will Happen to My Journals When I Die?
What Will Happen to My Journals When I Die?
Journaling

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Crow’s Feet

·Apr 28

Entering their World: Caring for Someone with Dementia

Some tips that will make it easier for both of you to navigate this confusing time — When I was deciding, as a new horticultural therapist, which population I would like to work with, adults with dementia were at the bottom of my list. I admit I was afraid of people with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. I didn’t know how to relate to them. They were always…

Caregiving

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Entering their World: Caring for Someone with Dementia
Entering their World: Caring for Someone with Dementia
Caregiving

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Crow’s Feet

·Apr 15

I Recently Turned 61, the Age My Father Died

Changes I am making to make sure this is not my fate, too — My dad had a massive heart attack when he was 61 years old. I was 37, and I was not ready to be fatherless. I miss my daddy every single day, but I also think a lot about how I can make sure I don’t end up like him. When…

Aging

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I Recently Turned 61, the Age My Father Died
I Recently Turned 61, the Age My Father Died
Aging

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Apr 8

How to Ask for What You Need in Relationships

A simple question to ask yourself and others — How often have you been upset about something and you needed someone to just give you a big hug? Or maybe you just want someone to listen as you process, grieve, or vent. But then your partner/parent/friend jumps in with their own way of dealing with your upset and it…

Relationships

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How to Ask for What You Need in Relationships
How to Ask for What You Need in Relationships
Relationships

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Crow’s Feet

·Apr 7

What Should I do With Mama’s Unfinished Projects?

Sewing our hearts together stitch by stitch — I sat in my sewing room and cried hot tears of grief. The absence of my mother is an ache that lives deep within my bones. Some days I hardly notice; other days the ache pulls me down into the depths of myself, making me want to curl up with…

Grief

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What Should I do With Mama’s Unfinished Projects
What Should I do With Mama’s Unfinished Projects
Grief

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Beth Bruno

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Human learning to be human. Writing in hopes of getting there.

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