Author: Lisa
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Alone
Did you know that September hosts several dozen nationally recognized days such as “National Little Black Dress Day” and “National Blueberry Popsicle Day,” among some quite ridiculous others. September also boasts very necessary and heavy promotion of a few major social objectives, one that is too close to my heart for comfort is Childhood Cancer Read more
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Authentic
I entered an Adult Writing Contest promoted by the local library a few months ago (I didn’t win, so I will publish it here now.) I considered writing in the poetry category because that’s always been fun for me, and one morning instead of picking up my journal to write I grabbed a blank pad Read more
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Independence
With all the words floating around in my head, as much as I wanted to avoid it, independence seemed like the most appropriate single-word blog title this month. Not in any political sense, of course, but purely coincidental looking through a personal self-governance lens. If you’ve been socially conditioned to follow the flock (with work Read more
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Compassion
Compassion: sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it. Merriam-Webster 2025, online dictionary I was once told by an elementary school English teacher to never continue reading if I didn’t know the meaning of one word–get a dictionary, find the word, spell it, pronounce it, learn the word, review it again, Read more