Why I Love Getting Older: 7 Reasons Getting Older is Pretty Great “I can’t die before learning French!” – me, five years ago, in a full-on panic mode, and going through a quarter-life crisis. Despite my panic, I didn’t actually miss being younger. I think that it was the number itself, that freaked me out a bit. More than the number 30, which would seem odd, if it wasn’t for the fact that by 30, I’d learned an important lesson from a very stylish, older gentleman. Whom I’ve never actually talked to. “I am not going to lie; that old man scratching his butt for the past five minutes is kind of distracting.”– I said to my husband while waiting in line with him during one of his regular trips to a completely-out-of-the-way, as in four-towns-over, deli. “Who?”– he turns around as if my gentle whisper wasn’t enough of an implication to not do just that. “Oh, that guy?”- he goes– “Well stop looking then, you perv. He’s here every Saturday. I’m pretty sure he does that every time he tries to remember something.” “Uhh…okay????”– me “Oh, come on now. He’s old. He ran out of fucks to give a […]

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7 Small Changes that Will Make a Big Difference in Your Life Making a big change in life can be pretty intimidating. It can also be a source of a lot of stress and even more frustration. With some of those big life changes, results aren’t always immediate. As time goes by, you might experience feelings of self-doubt and irritation. Especially if you find yourself not meeting those high expectations you’ve set for yourself. Thing is, your life really is what you make it. Yes, there are some things in life that are beyond your control. There are, however, even more things which you do have control over, things you can… change. We love saying: “If you don’t like something, just change it.” Thing is, it’s not always that simple, or easy to do. This is why focusing on making small changes in your life can be a great place to start. A small change can still deliver those big results. It can help you create a huge, wonderful transformation in your life. By changing as little as one small daily habit, you can introduce more positive and healthy patterns into your life and daily routine. It can bring more […]

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Digital technology was meant to make our lives easier, to make things better and improve our productivity. It’s supposed to save us time, yet we somehow waste more time than ever by getting lost in digital distractions and everything that technology has to offer. Right now, my phone is in airplane mode, yet I find myself automatically reaching for it every couple of minutes. I know that none of my notifications will pop up, but I can’t help it. I’m often not aware of just how easily I get distracted these days until it’s time to sit down and work or write. A 30-minute task can easily turn into a 1-hour task when you allow those distractions to pull you away from your work or chores… or even from getting some rest. HOW TO OVERCOME DIGITAL DISTRACTIONS DO NOT DISTURB This is an obvious solution to a problem: putting your phone in the do not disturb mode. Or, better yet, turning it off- which I have to do all the time. When you’re working on something important or very involved and you’re really “in the zone” do you allow things like an email notification or a phone call distract you? It’s hard to […]

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I was standing by the bathroom sink, washing my face and as I looked up in the mirror, I started to cry. Again. Nothing particularly bad or negative happened to me that day. I just found myself feeling incredibly lost. Again. This is something that I’ve been going through and struggling with over the last couple of years. To the point where I feel tired of bringing it up- both in my personal life and on this blog. Seriously, I am so over it. On the outside, my life is a dream. It is a life for which I feel incredibly grateful, every single day. I have an amazing, true saint of a life-partner, wonderful family and support system, a dog who’s been by my side since college and who probably understands me better than some of my friends, a beautiful house, I work with great people. And yet, there is this internal struggle that takes place in my head on most days. As a child, I got sick a lot. I remember once waking up in a hospital bed in the middle of the night, hearing someone scream in the room across the hall, not knowing where I am, […]

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It’s 2016. I am the happiest I’ve ever been. For the first time in my life, I know what it’s like to have things finally “fall into place” and I’m thriving, loving life like I’ve never loved it before. Then, at the end of the year, I experience loss for the first time. It breaks me. While still trying to pick up the pieces, six months into 2017, I get into an accident, which doesn’t seem like a big deal. At first. Within weeks, I went from giving 100% to everything I do, to being in constant crippling pain, whenever I did something other than lying on the couch. I’ve tried (and failed) to get up and do the things I’ve always loved doing, literally hundreds of times. “I’ll try again tomorrow” I’d tell myself when I couldn’t get through a workout. “I’ll try again tomorrow” I’d tell myself when I couldn’t hold my camera for longer than 10 minutes, when doing my blog work; or when I couldn’t finish folding the laundry; or when I couldn’t even get out of bed, or when I couldn’t sleep through the night, with my mind racing 100 miles per hour. Tomorrow would […]

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