This tree can give no more

I recently made the decision a number of months ago to not write at length about my personal life or family. This decision came after discovering that the number of local folks reading this blog had grown, and while I am a big-mouth in general, being a big-mouth in a small town can be embarrassing. …

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Musings on 40…a journey

Last week I found myself at the local walk-in clinic after hours because my back decided it just wasn’t in the mood for the physical activity that I had been subjecting it to. It turns out that I had pulled a muscle. Yet while I was at the clinic, I mentioned another issue I had …

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Losing my labels

Blue-collar, white collar, chief executive, day laborer, and stay at home mom, and the list goes on. Words that we use to describe who we are and what we do; they may even shed some light on who we are as individuals. Really they are just labels; labels that many of us are deeply invested …

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