Tag: priorities
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Lightening Up
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Passion to the Third Degree. I am lightening up. It’s a process of elimination, either of what has been holding me back or what has been weighing me down. Much of this past year (and more) has also been about losing some of the things (and people) in…
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Driven to…Wanting to be Distracted
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Love in the Third Degree. One of the things I’ve struggled with all my life has been my drive. I’m not sure when it started—probably grade school or before. It was definitely in play in high school and I was well known for it. By the time I…
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High Maintenance Homes and Girls
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. It’s strange where a woman on her own will focus her financial priorities. With the real estate market stale here since Hurricane Katrina—as in no one wants to live near the coast anymore—I’ve seen my assets decrease substantially in the past year, especially…
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Regrets for the Life Undone
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Life in the Third Degree. “Let’s go out sometime,” he says yet again on the phone, and the earnestness in his voice says he means it even though it never happens. “I just need to get my schedule figured out so I can have some time off…,” he…
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Solstice Reflections: Growing Up and Just Growing
“And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me, He’d grown up just like me… My boy was just like me.” –”Cat’s in the Cradle,” Harry Chapin From the Bookshelf Unapologetically Happy — 23 lessons from a life reimagined. Available direct from the author → A week ago, I was talking with one…
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Turning the Tables on Controlling Comments
Isn’t it annoying when you have a list of 5238 things to accomplish and you’re chugging along nicely, feeling proud of yourself for getting so much done, when someone steps in and tells you all the things you should be doing, many of which are already on your list? Ultimately, I find that people who…
