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May 20, 2008 11:48 AM EDT -- Exercise 4 Are you troubled by your past—mistakes made, sins committed, bad decisions acted upon? Most of us (if we are human) have taken short cuts to happiness or grabbed at something . . . more
May 15, 2008 10:57 AM EDT -- "Hey, sweetie, you're falling down on the job," Robin says, snapping me out of my daze. "Sorry," I say, though I can't remember where we were in our conversation, or . . . more
May 07, 2008 03:15 PM EDT -- Excercise 3 So you've made time to be away or you've decided to go off with a few friends for a weekend of contemplation. How do you start centering down and putting the focus on . . . more
May 02, 2008 01:56 PM EDT -- Since that very party is today, Robin has insisted that we get the twinkle lights up on our picket fence. "C'mon, sweetie, we've got to do something seasonal," he says, urging me off . . . more
May 01, 2008 09:48 AM EDT -- Exercise 2 If you were to go away or be left alone would you know what to do with yourself? Most women are doers, not be-ers. As such, we haven't been trained to listen to what our hearts . . . more
April 29, 2008 02:37 PM EDT -- It's always been my nature to defy convention. Tell me that's the way it's done and I will surely choose another way. My taste for such behavior goes back to my formative years and the attraction . . . more
April 25, 2008 01:28 PM EDT -- The Second Journey is a second chance. Most women have lived the first half of their life in a prescribed manner. By the time she approaches the midway point she is more than ready for her turn. The . . . more
April 24, 2008 02:28 PM EDT -- Early December Traveling is not just seeing the new;   it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors;   also closing them, never to return.   But the . . . more
April 21, 2008 03:28 PM EDT -- It's time for the unveiling—not of a newly decorated house or a piece of art, but my body which has been covered in layers since late Fall. Winter has come and gone and with it resolutions . . . more
April 15, 2008 12:49 PM EDT -- Most of us, halfway to a hundred, confront a need for greater   self-awareness. We reach a point when the power of youth is gone, the possibility of failure presents itself, and the dreams of . . . more
April 15, 2008 12:07 PM EDT -- A while ago, before the "change of life" was a reality I fully understood, I was sitting in my best friend's backyard ruminating about the prospect of our lives with our children grown and . . . more
 
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