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Hey there, New Year!

Who doesn’t love a new slate? A blank page? Okay, people who have a block for writing may not like a blank page but truthfully, there is nothing but possibility in newness. In starting over. In starting again. A new day. A new week. A new year. Of course, those new beginnings are made so… Continue reading Hey there, New Year!

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Quarterly Review

April has arrived! I am looking back over all the things I wanted to write about this year at the beginning of the year and realizing I didn’t get many of these writing “projects” done. Now, with a quarter of 2012 behind me, I am going to take a look at how I am moving… Continue reading Quarterly Review

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Get Lighter!

Get lighter!! This is the motto for 2012…lighter, lighter, lighter. We can all do it. And, it will apply to all different parts of our lives. See my goals for this new year. Body/Fitness/Health Lose 25 pounds. My son is getting married in August so ultimately, I would love to have this goal achieved by… Continue reading Get Lighter!

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Resolutions

Do you make New Year’s resolutions? What is so special, other than the term new year would indicate a fresh slate, about January 1st? I realize that having a new calendar makes my life seem like I am getting a fresh start. I also realize that tradition dictates that I make resolutions. Yet, as is… Continue reading Resolutions

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Goals or Aspirations or Resolutions

In a quick glance, the three words – goals, aspirations, resolutions – may all look and mean the same to you and to me.  This is not the case at all.  If you are sitting around trying to figure out what your resolutions for the New Year are going to be, you are probably setting… Continue reading Goals or Aspirations or Resolutions

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A Quarter Ending

No, I have not taken up reporting my taxes on a quarterly basis.  I am, though, thinking it is time to review any of those goals, or if you use the term, or resolutions that were made back in January.  Without accountability, goals and resolutions and aspirations are just words – but hopefully ones that… Continue reading A Quarter Ending

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One Month Into That New Year

I was checking out a list of blogs I follow over the weekend and happened upon an update of The Wild Mind’s New Year’s Resolutions.  Her measuring and weighing got me to thinking.  I do not bring out the measuring tape ever!  I do weigh myself about once a month and it was time. Back… Continue reading One Month Into That New Year

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Gifts and Blessings

We all have them – gifts and blessings.  As we start on that clean canvas or slate that is a new year, we are looking for ways to improve what is our lives.  We make resolutions to do things differently, to make things better for us and for our friends and families. I have read… Continue reading Gifts and Blessings

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What Is Best About A New Year?

A former colleague of my father’s put it best in a short blog entry for the first of the new year.  She entitled it “Fresh Starts.” I was so taken by it in its truth and simplicity, I shared it on Facebook.  Now I want to share it here with you, my readers. It is… Continue reading What Is Best About A New Year?

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Sex in Review?

Sex!  What is it that makes everyone and their brother blogger want to write about it?  And why, the last week of the year, the last week of the decade is writing about sex coming to the forefront? First, there are many reasons bloggers want to write about sex.  In the case of Big Little… Continue reading Sex in Review?