Why do we do it? Seriously, why do we heap boulders of expectation—because that’s truly what they are—on ourselves every January 1? Maybe it’s the lights, decorations, and happiness that goes hand-in-hand with Christmas.…
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Have you ever been in the middle of doing something, actually something you want or feel you really need to do, and the phone, urgent email, or knock at the back door brings your…
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I think it started even before I had children, when my friend, Alice, who had three teenage children of her own, told me all she wanted for them was to raise them to be…
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Have you ever had one of those weeks where you felt like you were… Swimming upstream… like a salmon. Slogging through a mud-up-to-your-waist swamp wearing cement boots… or Sliding helplessly down the swirling drain……