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Blog #752: I Couldn’t Look Away

I was flipping through TV channels...until one of them stopped me cold. I didn't know the singer.I didn't know the song. But I couldn't look away. ______ It wasn't his voice that caught me. It was how completely he gave himself to the moment. He wasn't just singing.He...

Blog #751: I Pressed Send Anyway

#750 is behind me.#751 is right now. Still going.Still showing up.Still giving it my best. Every.Single.Thursday. ______ #751. That’s a lot of Thursdays. More than I ever imagined when this began. And although I'm acknowledging #751... I'm celebrating #1 more. That’s...

Blog #750: What Are You Leaving in Them?

At first... This blog was about a frog named Camino.Then it became a question. Ready to see where this leads? ______ First story... There’s a little frog that’s lived outside my front door in Sacramento for as long as I can remember. I call him “Camino.”Named after...

Blog #749: The Email Said She’s a Ghost

I read her email.I stopped breathing for a moment. "People don't say things like that." ______ The email read: "I’m a ghost. People don't see me. I don't even see myself anymore. I read your blog and maybe I'm not changing, but at least I see I don't want to be a...

Blog #748: It’s Time to Go

Moving forward. Not because it's easy.Because staying changes who you become. ______ The past has a powerful pull. A favorite memory.A former relationship.A great success.A missed opportunity.A different version of ourselves. It's easy to revisit what was. Especially...

Blog #747: Where Did You Stop Creating?

“Get creative!” That thought that never leaves me. The trail I walk.The travel I take.The conversations I have.The work I do. Stale living and I don’t get along. ______ Forty years ago… I introduced telemarketing to businesses. It wasn't common.I thought I was on to...

Blog #746: Why Does This Keep Happening?

Check my thoughts.Change my thoughts. ______ There are mornings when I wake up already ahead of myself. And there are mornings when I wake up already behind my thinking. Same life. Different direction before the day even starts. I’ve learned this the hard way… Nothing...

Blog #745: My Tighty-Whities Moment

Let’s talk about getting engaged. Not married.Engaged. To your life. ______ Most people aren’t disconnected from life. They’re just not engaged in it. A slightly perturbed email landed in my inbox: “It’s easy for you to have a life. You have money to do things.”...

Blog #744: What I See Every Thursday

I think my signature sign-off is sticking.Many emails coming back now close with: “Gratitude…" ______ I love the people who read this blog. Not because they see me. But because they are kind—even when the world isn’t.They are passionate—even when life drains them.They...

Blog #743: When Showing Up Starts Costing You

Some questions don’t need advice.They need clarity. Especially when your heartis pulled in two directions. Like this one. ______ “I keep showing up for someone who keeps taking from me. Am I right to keep hanging in there with this person?” ______ My answer: Dear...
#482: Loving the Getting There

#482: Loving the Getting There

Achieving a goal is not what I love the most.It's the trying to get there part. In writing today's blog... It's wasn't hitting "SEND" on the finished product I loved the most...it was chasing an idea and then searching my brain for the words as I wrote it. For each of...

#481: Sitting with Polar Bears

#481: Sitting with Polar Bears

I love a good story.This one's a He Said, I Said. And it's about white polar bears. He said: We live in an ocean of negative sewage! The lies, hate and selfishness... there's so much everywhere that it's hard to not feel bad, mad and sad all the time! I said: Then...

#480: Like Vickie T. Did

#480: Like Vickie T. Did

Last Thursday's blog "Not Dead. Not Done."...generated an email that nudged my heart. I've read it five times. Dear Shawn, It is thanks to you that I have not rolled over thinking I was dead. I started walking last year. I only could walk a little ways down the road...

#479: Not Dead. Not Done.

#479: Not Dead. Not Done.

I walk every day. But now...I'm getting ready to really get my walk on. For those who have opened Extra Mile Thursday for a while, you know I'm not one to shy away from adventures far bigger than me. And as soon as the coast is clear, I'm gonna' walk across country...

#478: Bumps, Bats…and Bras

#478: Bumps, Bats…and Bras

I've pedaled a bike acrossNevada on Interstate 80. Two times. The 411 miles across Nevada's I-80 is one of those rare places where a bicyclist can legally pedal on the big road because there is not a suitable alternative. On a bike, the route is not for the faint of...

#476: Zero Shame. Monster Courage.

#476: Zero Shame. Monster Courage.

The second that the thought hits me...I grimace. I cringe. I swear. "I went the wrong freakin' way." In walking across seven countries, the words and I have met a few times. In the fading daylight in Spain and Portugal...I missed seeing yellow arrows that would've...

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