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The First Thing I Would Do After Getting Wonderful News…
Whenever I have had wonderful news in the past, I have reached out to others to spread the news. It might be my husband or my mother, but I have reached for the phone to tell them whatever the news has been. But there has been something I have done…
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The Influence on Your Perspective of Life After Significant Life Events
In August 2009, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. By the time it came to the formal diagnosis it was more of a hope it wouldn’t turn out to be cancer, but the initial referral to the breast clinic was wholly unexpected. To say it had an impact on my…
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What is my Mission?
This question was a writing prompt the other week and it really called to me. As I started to think about it, though, I thought – what IS my mission? Do I even have one? Does anyone if they truly think about it? And it got me thinking. If we…
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I Am (Not) Sailing…as the song doesn’t go.
There is one thing I am the most scared of doing. Something that does terrify me at a really deep level. That thing is sailing. I love watching the water, I could stare at the sea or at rivers for hours and hours on end. It’s so powerful, it can…
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What I Would Do With A Lottery Win
Who hasn’t ever thought what you would do if you won the lottery? I know I have, and if I’ve been bored I’ve even looked at multi-million pound homes and dreamed of buying one in the event of a lottery win. But beyond that…I don’t know what I would do…
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Food, Food, Food, Food….
I have the most gorgeous Newfador – cross between a Newfoundland and a Labrador – in the world. He’s gorgeous, he was my baby now he’s my (not so little) old man. At eleven and a half years old he’s doing extraordinarily well as he is still relatively active and…
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Living a Very Long Life – Blessing or Curse?
The daily prompt question for today is your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life. And it did really get me thinking. There are, for me, so many factors attached to this that it doesn’t make it a binary answer. My life experiences have highlighted for me…
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Mired in the past and the future – what about now?
There is that old saying that the past is done, the future not yet set which is why now is a present. Or something along those lines. Basically, the past is gone and we can’t change it and the future hasn’t happened yet, the only time we can control is…
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Performing on stage and giving speeches
Like most school children, I performed on stage for school plays and the like but I also had to perform on stage for the elocution lessons my mother used to send me to. All of which, I am sure, set me up for the amount of times I have had…
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Poverty, Judgement and Gratitude
There is an advert on British television at the moment about the steps a mobile phone provider is taking to help those who are in data poverty. It really hits home to me because I have been there, and it reminds me all the time of how it felt. How…
