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Let’s go back in time. Way back. To February 2012. I had a three-month-old baby, a pile of my husband’s student loans, and zero friends living within a 200-mile radius. My husband and I had moved when our baby was six weeks old so that my husband could take an awesome job and we could be closer to my parents. I was looking for ways to make money and still be able to stay home with my son. So on that chilly Alabama day, I decided to buy a domain name and start a blog. My idea was that I could use...

Curled up in my cozy nest with only the glow of the screen illuminating the world before dawn, I write, I read, I understand. The words flow from my fingertips and my mind grasps what was previously unknown. Mornings are for writing. The darkness, my shroud of secrecy as each thought arises and settles to be considered as worthy to be accepted as my truth, my present and perhaps, my forever. Intuitive Journaling Six years ago, I had retired a bit early, changing my life rather abruptly and leaving me with a feeling of disorientation that I couldn’t quite shake....

  It’s one thing to bloody an old friend, quite another to end them. It’s been two weeks since I murdered Ian. No regrets yet. Ian and I grew up together, but I pretty much ignored him until May of 1984. That was the month Beth and I used the L word and turned a long-distance friendship into a long-distance romance. Beth and I had connected in Yosemite back in January of ’82 when she was invited to the nineteenth Birthday party of some Australian college student on a working vacation. Luckily for me the seniors on her high school...

This is the final blog in the 3-part series on decluttering and organizing your holiday cards. The first two blogs were on October 14th and 18th.  Make sure you check out all this month’s blogs for a stress free holiday. This blog will focus on ways to save money and reduce stress when doing holiday cards. Organize-Holiday-Card-GivingPhoto by Giftpundits.com on Pexels.com Ways to Save Money When Organizing Holiday Cards to Send Out We belong to Costco and if you order photo cards early, you can save money.  You can create customized cards inexpensively with Costco as well. You can always...

Tests, essays, projects, work and social activities - the list goes on. College students deal with a number of things that can cause stress every day, and pressures from school are among the top reasons for stress, according to the Jed Foundation. As these responsibilities begin to build up, it can be hard for students to find ways to care for themselves. To combat lack of self-care among students, the Ball State Counseling Center began the Self-Care Challenge, a four-week, email-based tool that provides students and faculty with more than 30 different strategies to help develop positive self-care. The strategies of the...