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How trust is earned live love Feb 03, 2025

If you've been married long enough, you will have experienced both: forgiveness and trust issues. These are the hills and valleys of the marriage journey—inescapable, even for the holiest among the ringed ones. Yes, if you’re married, you are ringed. That symbol of eternal commitment on your left ha...

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Did change break you? live love Jul 26, 2023
 
Have you considered that it doesn't take trauma or drama to break a person? Sometimes a loved one's relentless subtle messages that "you should change" tear away pieces of you in the same way as a naughty boy might strip the bark from a tree, oblivious that he might kill it!
 
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How to lose "friends" and disappoint people live love Jul 17, 2023
 
Yes, I'm deliberately spoofing the all-time bestseller, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦. Nothing wrong with the book, except if we truly believe the lie that we can copy and paste some suggested behaviors and produce a predictable outcome in our relationship with anyone. The lie is:
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Those people who hang over the fence and why I want to be like them live love Jul 11, 2023

 

My husband did a fine pruning job on the hydrangea in the corner of our yard last fall, hence the spray of off-white florets this summer. Driving home yesterday, I wondered what was proper pruning etiquette when it comes to prolific, wild flowering like what we have going on here—and a fenc...
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A foretaste of flopped cake love Feb 22, 2022

Yes, flopped cake, because that is the ultimate stamp of motherhood. If you haven’t cried about a flat attempt at baking glory, you’re not a real mom yet!

The flopped cake on my book cover wants to put you at ease: Here, on this page, there is grace for flopped cakes and all the other motherhood

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The Sunday Sanity Secret love Feb 22, 2022

Today was one of those Sundays I dread: the ones when I have to cook for visitors. I am working my way through a seemingly endless list of possible ways to mess up a meal. I have done overcooking, undercooking, forgetting to switch on the oven, letting things boil over onto the oven’s element so tha...

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