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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…
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My Crazy Journey to Entrepreneurship

I call myself the Accidental Entrepreneur.
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She’s 95 and Fine! Celebrating My Grandma

If I'm blessed to see 95, I want to be exactly like her.
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You Can’t Unthrow the Pebble

Too often, we don't truly assess the situation, ask people closer to the situation their perspective or insight, and we toss our pebble not considering the waves that will be created. Too often we toss a pebble of insult or lack of support and don't realize or perhaps don't even care that ten ripples out, we've created a disaster.
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But it’s SO Hard to Understand

Hurt is an understatement of how if feels when people you love or people who can do harm to you don't understand you or your situation. You can't control anyone else, and you can't make anyone listen, like you, relate, or even care. But you can control you. And you can try to be a more understanding person. I'm crazy enough to believe that eventually the understanding will be returned to you.
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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…
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Love Yourself

If you read my last blog, then you read about my beautiful Valentine's Day proposal. I really hate spoiling the story for anyone who hasn't read my book, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother, but these two…
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My S.O. What! Valentine’s Day Proposal

Ignoring me, he got on one knee and grabbed my left my hand fully removing the big chocolate candy I was about to complain about him taking. It was actually a black ring box. My mouth dropped, and my heart started to beat out of my chest.