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What Now?

“Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.”  ― Mandy Hale The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass Think about your life in the future. Imagine that everything has gone as well as it possibly could. You have worked hard and succeeded at […]

One Life

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?- Mary OliverBefore, I was an achiever. My #1 strength in strengthsfinder, I was always working towards something. When I reached my goal (which I always did, finding ways around the roadblocks, when I fell, picking myself up to try […]

Mother, father, child

You made me a mother. From the second I saw the second line, you were mine and I was going to share this world with you. Your daddy stared at me in shock when I told him, and over the two weeks you were with us, we talked about what life would be like with […]

Love, Freedom and Independence

More than once, when I talked to someone about this journey and answered the question “is your husband going with you?”, the response was something like this: “and he let you do this alone??”. Sometimes this would be followed by a comment about how the speaker (always a man) would never let his wife do […]