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  • Celebrate Summer: Making the Most of Your Staycation

    Celebrate Summer: Making the Most of Your Staycation

    Summer is here, and it’s time to embrace the season and make the most of your time outside the office. If you’re a newly single empty-nester like myself, vacations abroad, long-distance travel, or even a road trip might not be feasible. This is where the staycation comes in and makes perfect sense! You can use…

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  • Compassion Made Easier

    Compassion Made Easier

    What Helps You Feel Useful? I ask myself this more lately. With one of my daughters an official, legal adult by all definitions and my second one not far behind, I find myself at a loss as to what my primary purpose is now. I’ve engaged in some direct, and expensive, educational soul searching on…

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  • Major Mom Shift

    Major Mom Shift

    I am 45 years old. My oldest daughter is on the cusp of graduating from high school. In five months, my household will change forever. My role as a mom will shift in some major ways. I will have daughters in the first year of new school situations–college and high school. I have watched from…

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