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Chapter 39- Celebrate Your Life While You Have It

If you've been following my blog for any amount of time or just know my story, then you know my birthdays are "special". Y es, everyone's birthday is special, but my birthday is also the anniversary of the day I got pregnant by someone I did…
The most important person to love
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The Most Important Person to Love

I can remember being in high school seeing girls getting flowers and stuffed animals at school on Valentine's Day. In college, more of the same. My friends often got gifts and went on dates, but I didn't. Sometimes it bothered me, but most…

Collaborating. Not Competing. Women Celebrating Women.

I am a woman, hear me roar. Women are strong when we want to be weak. We laugh when we want to cry. Sometimes we cry (or even laugh) when we want to run away. We are mothers, wives, sisters, and friends. Also, we are caregivers to our children,…
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I Did NOT Get Engaged This Valentine’s Day

I did NOT get engaged this Valentine's Day, but I did get engaged another Valentine's Day...and am single. I have spent my share of Valentine's Day alone and/or sad but no longer.
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The Power of the Imperfect Man

To my surprise, Ricky only spoke about ten minutes of the entire Christmas program, but he still delivered a powerful message to me.
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SO It’s Christmas…Be a Gift

For the past few years, I have struggled with having the "Christmas spirit". I have longed for the excitement that I used to have as a child or at least what I felt five years ago when I hosted my family (my grandmother, her twins including…
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Make Your Life Count: One Weekend, Two Funerals, and Three Things I Learned

For the first time in my life, I attended the homegoing services of two people in one weekend. One was for a woman who had lived a long, full life and the other...she was my age. Only thirty-six years old. In totally different ways but both…