I Have A Story To Tell You That Will Make You Feel Better

Feel

After losing my Thanksgiving Turkey my friend of thirty-five years called and said, “I have a story to tell you that will make you feel better.” I, of course, was ready to hear anything. I had just lost my turkey and my mother has Alzheimer’s. You do the math. So she said: “A year ago,…

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Life Isn’t Fair & That’s A Good Thing

Life isn't fair

Life isn’t fair. It doesn’t keep score, track, or have any kind of real give-and-take order to it. We lose jobs even when we are good employees, we’re nice but we still get sick, we stub our toes, fall down, and forget to zipper our flies even though we didn’t flip off the person who tailed us all…

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Let’s Figure This Health Thing Out Together

learned

Come sit by me and let’s figure this health thing out together. I have a lot of friends, but let’s be honest….I need a lot of friends. I’m high maintenance. Not the grooming kind of high maintenance, nope, I’m not a groomer. But I need a lot of chat to keep the wheels on this…

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Love, Thanks, Hello

Love, Thanks, Hello

Love, Thanks, Hello – these are my favorite words. I can tell they are my favorite words because I use them non-stop in my speaking and my writing. Love, Thanks, Hello I have a writer friend named Craig Childs http://www.houseofrain.com and he posted this on Facebook the other day. “Jasper (his son) says to me, “You…

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Demco And My Little Free Library Journey

I just took a lovely walk with Demco and I want to tell you about my little free library journey. I’m a girl who has had library-love her whole life. Before I could read I sat in the library moving my lips pretending. I wanted people to think I was a prolific reading genius. Once…

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THE DOG YEAR – first chapter sneak peek

The Dog Year, Ann Garvin Author

Chapter One It’s Not About the Breast In the hospital parking ramp, Lucy snuck a glance at a new mother placing her infant into an elaborate car seat. Her husband stood hovering at her shoulder, his hand gently touching her hip. The woman lingered, gazing at the tiny, beet-faced infant, love fairly oozing from her…

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Writing: The love that got away OR you suck as a motivational technique

“You are the worst writer I’ve ever worked with.” My mentor said that to me. Self-esteem education had not gripped the nation yet. Higher education ascribed to the-I–was-miserable-so-by-God-you-will-be-too-teaching system. At the time, I was trying to write my dissertation on how physical activity effects anxiety and depression and ironically every time I thought about working…

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