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Tales From the Homefront – Count Down

This is my 200th post – How appropriate is that! As we prepare for my husband’s upcoming deployment, I am never more cognisant of the value of applying the principles which I share with my readers on a regular basis. Life is a journey of peaks and valleys and if you only hope for, focus [...]

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Real Age Wisdom

A tip from RealAge.com. Thanks to Tanya for sharing this tip with me! To Feel Content, Just Take a Stand Has something in the news gotten your ire up? Taking a stand on it could boost your quality of life. New research shows that not just believing in a cause, but actively supporting it, tends [...]

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Don’t Give Up on Your Dreams

If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer. There is clearly [...]

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Becoming Wise

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages is you’ve been. –  Madelyn L’Engle Life is a progression.  We are a work in progress and an accumulation of experiences.  Everything that has previously occurred in our lives has happened for a reason and is an essential part of [...]

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