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  When we generally hear the words, the circle of life, many of us think someone was born and someone died. That very often could be the case. Whether it be immediate, or when a baby is born on an anniversary of someone’s death, we generally say it is the circle of life. And it…

“When connections are real they never end. They simply die and are reborn” ~ Maryann Hasnas Lying on the bed, the room getting a bit lighter as dawn breaks through, the outside world began to stir. The soft breathing of my friends as they lay warmly tucked in their beds serenading me. The air has…

Their friendship spanned almost 40 years with the last 20 never being as close as the first. They kept tabs on each other and saw each other every now and again, but this was different. They were conspiring to scare someone. For reasons that she couldn’t explain they were working together to create an accident…

“That’s just the way she is.” She’s quick tempered and comes at you whenever she feels she is painted into the proverbial corner. “That’s just the way he is.” He’s closed off and goes to his quiet place when he stresses, he hides from his emotions. He doesn’t fight back and sometimes you feel as…

  The shortcut through the park had never been scary before. Although the road between Mildred Lane and the swim club was somewhat desolate, with backyards on one side of the street and an abandoned house on the other, it was well traveled by kids of all ages. She walked the path she always took…

“Grief changes people. It makes them trust less, overthink more and deeply regret what never was” ~ Unknown   John and I were great friends toward the end of our sophomore year of college. We walked and talked almost daily, our campus filled with farms and woods that made it magical. We could talk about…

“Let go of the illusion that it could have been different” ~ Unknown It could have been different. A number of situations flit through my mind. There are relationships and marriages; jobs and opportunities; friendships and let downs, all could have been different. Instead of subscribing to the principle of “it is what it is,”…

The Ten Week Challenge was coming to an end. We had run, kicked and punched bags and lifted weights. We planked, did burpees, mountain climbers and robots. We relayed, partnered and pushed each other as a group. We laughed, we complained, we jumped, we sang. We began to build new friendships and encouraged each other…

“To be human is to be excruciatingly vulnerable.”~ unknown Excruciatingly vulnerable. Interesting choice of words to put something that is recognized to most as pain and place it next to something that should give us freedom. As a human though where we see and do judge too often, being vulnerable doesn’t always bring freedom, it…

“If you are able to imagine the best version of yourself and how they behave, why aren’t behaving like them in this very moment? Have you become too comfortable functioning as a lesser version of yourself? ~ Ebonee Davis Bam! Hit me hard, am I too comfortable functioning as a lesser version of myself? This…