Happiness Is A State of Mind

Here’s Something To Feel Good About Today… At the grocery checkout this evening, the cashier smiled and asked me how I was doing? I smiled back. After ringing up my sale she looked at the credit card receipt and thanked me personally by mentioning my name. “Have a wonderful evening, “she said as I loaded my cart. “The...

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Relationship Building

Here’s Something To Feel Good About! What matters most to me in my life are my key relationships. While I do connect on facebook, I consider it fun but rather superficial. I want and need to connect regularly on a deeper emotional level with a much smaller group of intimate friends and family members. I regard these people as my...

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Open to Receiving

Here’s Something To Feel Good About Today! We never know who we will meet or how they will touch our lives. That’s why it’s so important to be open to allow their goodness to find us. It was that way for me when I connected with a stranger and after a brief heartfelt conversation received an amazing gift. When we met there was...

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Lasting Friendships

Here’s Something To Feel Good About Today… I have a circle of girlfriends that I connect with once a month via conference call. When we formed our supportive circle we all lived in close proximity. Now half of us live on the west coast and half still live in NYC. We’ve been connecting now for almost 10 years never missing a...

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Connecting

Marlene’s Mid-Life Diary As an artist, everything comes to life for me when there is a visual attached. I love a good story but when there are photographs or illustrations I immediately sneak a peek before I read any text. That’s why it’s so exciting for me to begin to post images with my blogs. Nothing is more important than...

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Group Support

Marlene’s Mid-Life Diary After returning from a weekend retreat with like- minded people it’s important to reach out and stay connected. Someone sent the email addresses of all the attendants and we began to correspond via e-mail. It’s interesting to see who responds. I’m hoping to make a few new friends through this...

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