Mother. Writer. Aging Rebel. Eternal Optimist
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Do you ever watch the evening news and feel helpless at the poverty and tragedy of the humanitarian crises taking place in the world? Your heart feels heavy at such suffering, but you wonder what you could possibly do about it.
Over the past five years, 200,000 civilians have died due to violence, malnutrition, and disease [...]
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There’s been a bit of talk about kindness in the blogasphere lately. Mark Hayward of My Tropical Escape is talking about how kindness can make the world a better place at Zen Habits and Al at 7P Productions generated a great discussion about the same topic last week with “Why should I help you?”.
If you [...]
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Sunday was Mothers Day in Australia, and I had the opportunity to revel in some well earned spoiling from my husband and son. I got to sleep in, had coffee in bed, feasted on pancakes for breakfast, and my gorgeous husband made Indian for me, my mom and stepfather that night.
Mothers Day used to be [...]
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Are you stuck for what to get your loved ones? If your family is anything like mine, everyone has more than enough. Isn’t that just the modern dilemma, how to gift in a society where over consumption is the national past time? Too often we end up effectively swapping spending with our loved [...]
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