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23Finding My Faith
I have searched for a God throughout my life from Catholic childhood into the present I do have faith that there is something or someone out there . I am still not sure if God as depicted in the numerous religions exists, but I have met people in my life whose eyes, shone when they spoke of him and who exuded a peace that was transferable.
34Instant Gratification - The American Way
“We want it and we want it now” and we are not waiting is the new mantra. The virtue of patience has gone the way of the eight track player and is only a memory.
28Greedy Big Business: Let’s Blame It On Obamcare
They are mad and sad and even though most have so much more, than many of us could even fathom, it is never enough and it will never be enough.
16Ripping Off Vets, Pets and Storm Victims
We often don’t think about the process of giving or where the money goes, we assume it will help those in need and just write a check or push the button on our computers and give them a credit card number and fill in the amount we can afford and push the button. Finished!
28Ten Reasons I love Canadians
I love the country, the culture, the mindset because they are like a cousin who was raised well and puts up with our spoiled, boasting, self centered behavior with a smile and occasionally tell us off when the whole thing gets to be too much. So here goes...
20Family is Special So Use the Good China
TV trays, computer tables and laps seemed to have replaced the dining room or kitchen table and families seem to spread out throughout the house eating alone and concentrating on the television, computer or telephone. The later is even carried out in restaurants, where I see more and more couples playing with their phone instead of conversing with their partner.
17Olive Oyl And Mean People
I dislike the current strain of meanness that abounds. Personally I have thick skin, a quick response reflex and I could easily dish it out as well as I can take it! But why?
10If Mothers Ruled the World
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living -- Omar N. Bradley... If Mothers ran the world.
16Adopting From A Shelter ?
I am an avid believer pets can only enrich your life and that people should head to the local shelter and adopt a new family member. So many great dogs are waiting for homes, however, I also think some logical thinking is needed in advance. Adopting a pet is a commitment...so do the research!
31Legal Abortion or Back to the Alley?
Abortion has taken center stage for many, especially women and no matter what side of the issue you are on for whatever reason there is a truth we all have to face and that is we can make something illegal but we cannot make it go away.
14Dear Son: How Can Love Be Wrong?
Got into it with my youngest son about something I shared on Facebook about the Jim Henson’s Muppets taking a stand for equality and I worry this liberal, everyone is equal, live and let live kid I raised may have gone AWOL.
71Life's Regrets!
As we get older we seem to develop the ability to look back over our lives and see where we erred. We know if given a second chance, we could do it right this round, and we would. So here’s to second chances, may they smooth over the regrets!
23Online: Facebook And The Kids…
things you should never do if you want to stay “Friends” with the Young on a Social Networking Site. The "Kids" are the people in your circle of family and friends thirty and younger.
9PCOS and Aging
The risks of complications from PCOS, such as heart attack, stroke, and diabetes, increase as a woman gets older, in fact my doctor told me the risks triple. So please if you have been diagnosed recently learn everything you can about your condition and address the future risks with your doctor now, rather than just focusing on getting pregnant.
22My Favorite Molly Ivens Quotes
Molly Ivens left us too soon, but her writing will always be contemporary, unless Politicians change and that does not look like something any of us will live to see.
25Affirmative Action: Not a Four Letter Word!
I am so sick of hearing people spit out the words "Affirmative Action". Especially women! Because if you don't think we are where we are today because of "Affirmative Action" please go back and do some research.
18It's Us Again
This poem is about a second chance and how love often survives problem, distance and time.
56One Year Later: I Am A Writer
A wonderful friend, a published writer, years ago took me under her wing and passed on the tips that she used and I thought I would share them.
32Too Much Physical Affection?
Can There Be Too Much Physical Affection In A Relationship? This is the kind of question you can ask a group of women having coffee together! Women will discuss this issue in depth and tell you exactly what is lacking in their relationship and what their greatest desires in this area are. Men will squirm and look like a deer caught in the headlights when the subject is brought up.
29Love is Wonderful the Second Time Around
You never think at fifty-nine you will experience the things you did at fifteen. When it does happen, you wake up each morning with the sun shining brighter...
24Shattered Heart
Many of us may have been in or tempted by a rebound relationship. Someone that has been hurt is often eager to get back what they have lost and a new relationship is often thought to be the magic pill and instant fix all for a broken heart and wounded ego.
14Online: Finding Our Past
The Internet has given us some great opportunities to play detective. We can reach out within the comfort of our home and find out who we are and who we came from and even family we never knew existed...
13Online: Facebook And Your Ex
The stats say 1 in 5 divorces in the USA alone are fueled by Facebook connections and a large portion of those are people connecting with someone from their past...
25Ode To The "Other Women"
The saying "if they cheats with you, they will cheat on you you" is very true as many people can verify. So just some food for thought in a poem I wrote about the subject last year! Please note since I am a woman I wrote from that perspective, but it goes without saying that both genders are equally capable of the same feelings and behaviors.
21Online: Love At First Byte
We used to talk about “love at first sight” these days however; “love at first byte” seems to be sweeping the planet
28To Be Nobody But Yourself
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955
6Flying With A Tot Made Easy
Ride-On Carry-On is a child seat and tray that attaches to your luggage and converts your luggage into a travel stroller.
12Exercising Without Effort
Going to the gym is not always the perfect exercise solution for everyone, even though he will give someone kudos for going. He added, to keep our weight off and stay healthy we must learn how to incorporate fitness in our everyday life because maybe just maybe, we can't always make it to the gym.
12Heartaches: When I Was Sad
ove and all its rapture and agony is what brings out the poet in me and many others. These are some of the poems I wrote during the break up of a long relationship and I am glad I did because now I can look back at those feelings with a bittersweet smile and say Life goes on, and so did I.
31Exercising in Bed: The Comfortable Way To Fitness
Get Fit in Bed: Tone Your Body & Calm Your Mind from the Comfort of Your Bed offers a proven-effective exercise program that draws from yoga, Pilates, karate, and stretching. With regular practice, you’ll see an improvement in muscle tone, flexibility, strength—and even sleep quality. You’ll also enjoy a greater sense of calm and well-being.
5Meeting People Without The Internet
I know people have a busy life, but much of it is made busier by endless hours attached to a computer or in front of TV. As someone said in a comment on a Hub, nothing like meeting attractive eyes across a room and there is nothing like chatting with a life person without an electronic gadget involved. So here goes my list.
16Online: Lookout for the Rebounders
Many of us may have been in or tempted by a rebound relationship. Someone that has been hurt is often eager to get back what they have lost and a new relationship is often thought to be the magic pill and instant fix all for a broken heart and wounded ego.
8Seeking the Door
All my life I have been told I have an overactive imagination. I believed and dreamed of things that could be. Maybe it is all fantasy, or maybe just maybe previews of the things that will be. This poem is about awakening and seeking further.
28Refugees: H.O.W We Can Welcome Them Home
A New Home Is Hope For Many… Webster’s defines Refugee as one that flees;especially: a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution.
14My Mother's Love
Sometimes things in your life turn upside down and you feel empty spaces in places once filled with love. It may the loss of a partner, friend or family member through death or a parting of ways. No matter what the cause the empty spaces are there and so is the sadness that comes along with it.
16Love, Respect And Admiration
To me these are the three most important ingredients in a relationship are Love, Respect and Admiration. When you lack one of the ingredients, it is hard for the others to take up the slack.
3Relationships - The Second Time Around
We all know what is like when you start a new relationship. The excitement, the discoveries and that feeling of not being able to breath until you see each other again. Being in lust and working your way to being in love. When starting over with an ex partner you may feel all of the above however, it is really a whole new and different experience when it is someone you are already in relationship with.
5Conversation With The Other Woman
When a partner or husband is having an affair have you ever thought about what it would be like to meet the other woman?
11Love’s Drama
Relationship Drama! It can be the equivalent of one of Shakespeare's play's and just as entertaining to an audience.
10Tarnished Knight
I grew up like most girls of my era, with Fairy Tales, Knights in Shining Armor and Happy Endings. I discovered early love is a wonderful filter on how we see each other. Loves rose colored glasses can soften problems and make pliant the hardest realities, however should you remove that filter you may experience a cold stark reality and nothing is as it was.
8A Lost Friend
Sometimes we are so bound up in our own problems and emotions we forget about others and then something happens to snap you out of it. For me it was an E-mail from a friend and co-worker whom I formed a real attachment to. Someone who has been gone from my life for over a year and whom I had not heard from since the evening she said goodbye.
13Online: Midlife and Dating Sites...Oh No!
Everyone my age I know is married, in a long-term relationship or had enough of marriage and avoiding the opposite sex like the plague. They must have known that and pointed you towards the Internet.
0The Time Far Away
We often dream of second chances with someone we love and sometimes, maybe just maybe fate is kind.
5It's Over - Smile, Breath, and Go Slowly
When a relationship ends you are dealing with a number of emotions and feelings; denial, anger, fear, sadness, guilt, hope, defeat and relief..
9A Piece Of My Mind
Relationships can be confusing at the best of times and sometimes the are utter chaos, but if you can find something to make you laugh or at list give you a hint of a smile, you know your sanity is still intact.
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Man Speak, Woman Speak
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” --- Robert McCloskey Here I am again, not sure what-is-what these days and talking to my partner is really like speaking to a creature from another planet or someone with a hearing impairment.
13The Daisy’s Tale
said to you I often feel Like a Daisy not quite real. My petals picked and torn away with the game you sometimes play.
0Moving For Love
The Internet has enabled us to meet people from all over the planet. We can make friends or catch up with old ones through games, chat, social networking sites and numerous other resources the Net offers and sometimes we may even meet someone special and we fall in love.
7Rebuilding Trust In A Relationship
Trust in a relationship is a main ingredient! When a partners emotional or physical infidelity breaks it, getting it back and it is not easy and often embarrassing and painful. And you think to yourself I am an adult why am I acting like this?
6Online: Facebook Relationship Status
The Facebook Relationship Status has made news and headlines since its inception. It has been blamed for a murder and suicide, led to the arrest of a man for statutory sexual assault, gotten its own mental handle (Facebook Relationship Status Anxiety? ) broken up a lot of relationships, verified the good ones and the list goes on…
11Stormy Nights
I love the cool air wafting in, pushing the warm air of earlier day out of its way. It is like a lovers fingertips on your bare skin, light and exhilarating, making you want more, the sounds, the light show, the sky opening up with a drenching wetness and all that goes with the production. I am not sure why I feel such passion for the event.
6When Your Broken Heart Breaks Your Heart!
When we say our “heart is breaking” or our “heart is broken” we usually are describing the intense emotional pain or suffering we feel during relationship crisis, after a breakup or in other stressful situations related to loss of someone or something. However, there is actually a medical condition known as "Broken Heart Syndrome".
8The Other Man – Revenge Affairs
To have another person in your live when you are at your lowest is both comforting and dangerous if you have a desire to repair your relationship and stay with your current partner.
4Midlife Crisis: It's Not About You
We are often smug when we pass a certain Anniversary of being together. Wow, we have beaten the odds! Wow, this is the longest I have ever stayed with anyone, this has to be love. Forever and always here we come! Then the whole works blows up in your face.
7Online: Emotional Cheating
Emotional Cheating online or off is when one partner spends his emotional energy outside of the relationship and when this happens they rarely have any left for their partner.
5Fathers and Their Children
We often think because we carry this being inside of us for nine months no one in the world can love this child more, and often we use words like “this is my child”. But we are wrong, and anyone who has ever seen a loving father and child together has to see the bond is just as close and the love just as deep.
6Being the Older Women
Getting together with my former partner one of the doubts I had was our age difference. I am THE OLDER WOMAN. As friends often remind me, you cannot see the difference and when you both are in your fifty’s it is almost laughable if someone does point it out. Why is this never even a thought when the sexes are reversed?
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Journey To A Healthier Me.
When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease. -- Terri Guillemets I have been battling with my weight since my fist job at a movie theater at 15 when I discovered let loose from my mother’s dietary controls I could eat my weight in popcorn without too much effort.
17When There is "Another Woman"
When there is "another woman" in your relationship life as you knew it ends! She will do anything to convince herself and you that this is happening for a reason and he will be much better off with her and you should do the right thing and step aside and let your partner enjoy his new found happiness.
