Category Archives: Emotional health

It’s Not About You

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Hi I’m Vera, and I’m a list lover. Yup. Totally addicted… to making them, following them, ticking items off of them. There’s no shame, is there, in being a list lover? Lists are helpful. Making a list is a tidy … Continue reading

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Happy After Christmas & Before New Year Everyone!

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It’s the most … time of the year. Fill in the blank. Joyful? Stressful? Busy? Cold? Depressing? Exciting? I have read blog posts lamenting the sad passing of Christmas festivities. I can understand that. I too feel a touch of … Continue reading

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Songs and Psalms and Stuff

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When I was 20, my family – parents, brother, sister and I – went ‘back to the old country’ for a visit. It was a joy to see my grandparents again, and we had some fun visiting relatives, especially my … Continue reading

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More than Halfway Through November

Help! I’m drowning… well, not really. But I am feeling kind of schizophrenic – as a writer, that is. On impulse, I signed up for the write-a-novel-in-the-month-of-November challenge without planning to. I had no delightful ideas of what to write, … Continue reading

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Funeral (Themed Writing Contest Week 23)

She said she had to find out, and I agreed to help her. I was one of the guys who had loved her and left her. But when she could have told my secret and ruined me, she didn’t. And … Continue reading

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Liar, Liar

Are you an honest person? I like to think I am, and you probably do, too. How then do we account for the statistic – presented by Robert S. Feldman, PhD, author of “The Liar in Your Life” – that … Continue reading

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First Line Writing Contest: She blew in a day early

She blew in a day early. No big surprise; it was typical Trish. You’d think I would have learned by now – with Trish it paid to expect the unexpected. The problem was that there were usually two or three … Continue reading

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10 Habits of Optimists

Have an attitude of gratitude – or as the Bible puts it “give thanks… in everything”. Share your stories – testimonies of good things and cautionary tales of bad things, the key is to communicate with others. Forgive – it’s … Continue reading

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Death Crawl (Themed Writing Contest: Suspense)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHPhVTw3YgM Urged by slivers of morning light, Coach Taylor slipped out of bed, careful not to disturb Brook. He crept out the back door and headed for the birch grove. He felt a moment’s peace as sunshine warmed his face. … Continue reading

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Do you have a beautiful attitude (beatitude)?

My small group is reading a book together – The Good and Beautiful Life, by James Bryan Smith, a student of Dallas Willard. Chapter 3 talks about Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the Mount commonly known as the Beatitudes. … Continue reading

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