Changing Your Email Address

How I Changed My Email With a Plan & Follow-through Ever think about changing your email address? I actually have off and on and have even made a few extra ones for email newsletters and for my LLC. But making an entirely new one in place of the one I've been using personally for 15-20 …

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Forgiving Our Past

Moving Past Those Things Which Haunt Us It seems appropriate being so close to Halloween to blog about those things which have haunted our past and, more than likely, our dreams - wide awake or when asleep. You know, those things which either we did, or someone did to us, and we just can't seem …

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Scams, Texting & Email Fraud

Beginning this month, I'm adding back a blog post each month on current events. This month my additional topic is on scams and email fraud. It's been a while since I wrote about being safe in cyber world, and I can't think of a better topic to start out with. I've included texting in this …

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Forgiving Our Mothers

This month, my momma celebrates her 76th birthday. Hubs and I were able to make the three hour trip to visit her. We didn't do our usual flea market and Mercado haunts, but we did treat her out to lunch at a place she hadn't been before and then another time to a favorite of …

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Forgiveness: Learning to Let Go

As I re-read my first post of the year on forgiveness, I realized one of the ways I didn't cover to better develop a forgiving heart is that of letting go. We so often want to hang on to all those things that hurt us. Why? Perhaps, so that we can see when it's happening …

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Aging & Forgiveness

As I sit here today with a few unexpected minutes to write this blog post, I'm drawn to share with you my thoughts about how forgiveness is a vital part of the aging process. It seems with each decade I'm reminded more and more about our immortality and mortality as humans. There isn't a day …

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Forgiveness As a Lifestyle

When a person chooses not to forgive but to hold onto slights against another, they choose isolation, sadness, heartbreak, and even more. Whether feeling slighted and choosing to hold onto the hurt is of merit or not, withholding forgiveness simply seals us into being miserable forever. We may deny the effect of not forgiving others, …

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Three Keys to Forgiving

Three things which have helped me forgive others, and also the past, are learning to let go, move on, and start fresh. From the time we are young, we are presented with moments where we have to choose to forgive or not to forgive. A sibling or classmate knocks our stack of blocks down. A …

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Forgive Now Not Tomorrow

Forgiving today or when an injustice or misunderstanding occurs is not always as easy as it sounds. But the passage of time can be an enemy to resolving issues and establishing a better relationship with a loved one or colleague. Tomorrow doesn't guarantee that we will have the time or the courage to deal with …

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