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You’re Gonna Respect Me, Ya’ Hear?

by | April 16, 2025 | Personal Growth, Relationships | 0 Comments

Most people with a beating heart want to be loved. Oh yes, I am certain that psychiatrists would be quick to point out there is a certain tiny percentage of humans who feel no love and have no need to be loved. But overwhelmingly, most of us crave the feeling of warm...
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Divorce and Dealing with your Ex

by | April 9, 2025 | Communication, Marriage, Relationships, Wisdom | 0 Comments

Years ago, right after I began CoffeeTime Column, a friend suggested I write an article addressing ‘Dealing with your ex after the divorce.’ Now, I don’t know much, but I do know that a writer is foolish to attempt to write about an unfamiliar subject. And as I have...
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Sleepless and Not in Seattle

by | April 2, 2025 | Inspiration, Self-Care, Wisdom | 0 Comments

Way too often finding yourself lying awake instead of getting your beauty sleep? As many know firsthand, that is an extremely common problem for a lot of people. I won’t bother boring you with the national statistics of this plague, you won’t be interested or...
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Old Man Pain is Determined to Win

by | March 26, 2025 | Inspiration, Personal Growth, Self-Care, Wisdom | 0 Comments

You are aging, every second you are alive, that is an inescapable fact. And right along with that joyous and party-mood-making pronouncement is another fact. Multiple years of aging most always brings on a certain amount of physical pain. Ready to invite me to your...
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Just Put it on my Tab

by | March 19, 2025 | Cautionary Tale, Relationships, Wisdom | 0 Comments

Two elderly sisters, one widowed and the other never married, were living together. They had decided the year before that because the oldest owned her house, the younger should leave a rented apartment and move into her sister’s second bedroom. After the initial “Move...
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Green Bean Cans and Eternity

by | March 12, 2025 | Faith, Wisdom | 0 Comments

Where does a person go after death? We need to understand one thing from the beginning.  When you draw your last halting shallow breath on this earth, from that point on, you are winging it on your own, with no one to run interference for you.  Family ties mean...
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