There seems to be that one day out of the week where I look towards my husband, head down, eyes at an upwards angle, like a puppy and say, “I feel like I’m more depressed than most people. Do you think there’s something wrong with me?” To which he replies, “There’s nothing wrong with you! Stop saying that or you’ll make yourself depressed!” Directly pointed, but nevertheless good advice. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so...
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When I was little my best friend and I were very different. My favorite game was “jungle” in which our plane had crashed in the forest behind her house and we were the only survivors. We would make weapons out of sticks to fight invisible attackers, make forts and pretend fires, and explore the terrain on our perpetual search for civilization. My best friend, on the other hand, was happiest when we kept our games indoors...
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I lie in bed, my eyelids pressed tightly together, the drawn out thump pushing in through the half open doorway. A heartbeat in my ears- blood in, blood out- like a finger striking the wooden coffee table at midnight, knocking a coded message, tapping out bullet points of decisions I’d rather not face. There were lazy summer mornings when the sun spilled through the glass windows, heating them warm to the touch. He’d tilt his head up...
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There’s a picture I remember, from a storybook read to me when I was a little kid. In the picture a baby is being held upside down while two prostitutes look on- one in panic, the other in compliance. The story is this. Two prostitutes each had a baby. During the night, one rolled over her baby killing it. She traded her dead baby with the other woman’s and pretended the live baby was her own. When the situation was brought before the...
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One of the things I am most grateful for is the ability to dream. We live in a time frame where there is more opportunity, than in any other historical period, to be anything we can envision. Today, entrepreneurs rule the world, with ideas formed in garages and built on the confident spirits of someone with the ability to pull others into their orbits of success. No matter who we are, we all have a dream, something we are...
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