Category: Tampa
Notes from Tampa — the relocation experiment, the daily texture of the place, and what shows up when you put yourself somewhere new on purpose.
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Locational Astrology (Part 2): Living My Best Life with Astrocartography
For the first time, I moved because a place felt right—not to escape something. Here’s what astrocartography reveals about seven years of living inside the lines that fit.
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When the Black Butterfly Totem Appears: Hidden Change
Every once in a while, a totem animal or insect shows up carrying a secret. Imagine a large, black butterfly drifting into your life. At first glance, it may not dazzle with bright colors, yet its dark wings edged in gold carry a deeper kind of beauty — mysterious, profound, and edged with light. This…
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The Wisdom of Playing Dead: Lessons from the Opossum Totem
There’s something about the hours just past midnight when the veil between ordinary and sacred grows thin enough to step through. Last night, I heard a noise outside my office window, sharp and unsettling, the kind of sound that makes your spine straighten and your mind immediately catalog potential threats. Someone trying to force their…
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Advice to Brides: How to Get a Man OUT of Bed
So many of my younger women friends are getting married for the first time, and quite a few of my female peers are getting married again, so I thought I’d offer a little “bridal advice” I was offered in my early 20’s. It still holds true, but you should be prepared for the consequences. And…
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Keeping Savings Accounts vs Paying Off Debt
This post on savings accounts vs paying down debt is post #4 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. Once I had paid off my monthly bills and the ones due in the next month that were on my Capital One card, I was ready to take a stab at paying off my car,…
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Trading Credit Cards with Rewards Programs for Cash-Flowing Bills
This post on cash-flowing vs credit cards is post #3 in my series on financial freedom and spirituality. When I decided to pay off the car, then the house, I sat down and came up with a plan…naturally…and found a few chinks in the plan right away. First of all, I didn’t have extra cash…
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Bullies, Outcasts, and Suicidal Thoughts: Why 50 Is Better than 14
In the last couple of years, blogging about victims of bullies–particularly those that result in suicides or “merely” suicidal thoughts–has become downright trendy, and perhaps that’s why I’ve resisted. It’s not an area of my life I talk about much, because I’ve discovered that being 50 is a hell of a lot more fantastic than…
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Second Chances and Last Chances
We often get second chances. But what do we do with them? First, we have to recognize a second chance when it comes along. By virtue of an issue coming up again for us or our seeing a pattern that’s not good for us, the Universe if presenting us with a second chance. It’s too…
