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Checking In With Myself: 2014’s Goal For Overall Balance In My Life And A Look At The Past Few Years When I Wasn’t All That Balanced

Posted on July 3, 2014 by DMW

Now that the year is half over, I find the need to check in with myself. I had big expectations of myself this year. The last few years I have felt were great and what not, but they weren’t all … Continue reading →

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And Then He Proposed: An Unlikely (And Modern) Love Story – Mine! (Part Two)

Posted on June 16, 2014 by DMW

Even though I am the right-brained creative ‘artist’ I have always craved security, having a plan, organization – order. Maybe it comes from taking care of myself since I was a young teenager. When you have to juggle high school … Continue reading →

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And Then He Found Me: An Unlikely (And Modern) Love Story – Mine! (Part One)

Posted on June 15, 2014 by DMW

Tomorrow is my two-year wedding anniversary. When I think about how Roy and I happened, I do a little inward laugh. He was not what I expected, we did not happen how I could have ever guessed and all of … Continue reading →

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This Memorial Day, I Remember… (Part 2)

Posted on May 26, 2014 by DMW

Yesterday’s blog memorialized the three people in my biological family that are in my thoughts often, but wanted to pay special tribute to this holiday weekend. The three people in this post are family, but that of a different variety. … Continue reading →

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This Memorial Day, I Remember… (Part 1)

Posted on May 25, 2014 by DMW

I have observed Memorial Day since I was thirteen, after I lost my Aunt Linda. I would put flowers on her grave. Now, fifteen years later, I have quite a few more names to add to that list. I’m not … Continue reading →