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Living Your Best Life
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Diary of a Newbie
Acrylic Pouring Artist Susan 4.19 
I wasn't expecting anything
life-changing to happen when I attended an Acrylic Pouring workshop.... Could Home-Based Selling
Work for You? Susan 2.19 
Could a home-based sales
business be the ticket to freedom? 
Sometimes looking back can
help you to move forward.... Double Header -
Authenticity & Body Positivity Susan. 12.18 
Real talk on Authenticity &
The Skinny on Body Positivity Could It Be?
Penny 11.18 
Could happiness be
right under your nose? |
Diary of a NAPA #2
and Sheila Showcase Susan 4.19 
Updates from the Acrylic
Pour Guru and Grasshopper The Good Life
Susan 2.19 
Words of wisdom on
happiness.... Humility, Humanity
Susan 1.19 
What does humility have to
do with empowerment? Beauty & the Beast
Susan 12.18 
Beauty and the beasts of
definition, perception and aging Mothers of Reinvention
Susan 11.18 
Sometimes, it feels like you
just have to sweep everything off the table and start over. |
Loving the swipe technique
for artistic control.... 
Who loves February?
Resurrection of the Crone
Susan. 12.18 
A project by a local photographer
designed to change societal perceptions of mature women. 
A time to reflect as the
year draws to a close.... 
Don’t borrow trouble -- three
simple words strung together to make a statement that, on the surface, is relatively easy to understand. |
Retirement Road
Susan 3.19 
Does the inner you
have a vision for retirement? Wavelengths
Susan. 2.19 
Connections,waves and circles
Victoria's Secret vs. Inclusivity
Susan 12.18 
Recent protests against
the non-inclusive policies of Victoria's Secret.... Being Accountable to Me
Guest: Suzanne Forster 12.18 
Do you ever feel like you’re
not living the life you really want? That you’ve gotten lost somewhere along the way ... 
I think what I'm most thankful for
is time. It's the writer of history and the healer of old wounds. |
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Health & Fitness
Simple tips for your
weight loss journey |
Weight Loss Climate
Susan 11.18 
Trendiness and
misinformation online, extremism in nutrition.... |
Rock Your Resolutions
Susan 11.18 
On the road to a new, healthier
lifestyle this January? |
The Stress Scale
Susan 1.19 
Back in the 1960’s, a couple
of psychiatrists put together a scale rating the impact of various stressors in life. |
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Opinion & Creative
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Susan's Musings
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Letter to November
Sheila 11.18 
Dear November,
I feel I owe you an apology. For years now, I have spent October dreading your arrival. 
Here is an experience I'd like to
share. I was at the Greyhound bus terminal in Buffalo, NY ... |
What I do know is that I choose
love over hate. You may say that it’s easy for me to invoke this platitude from my comfy chair in Canada... 
These little piggies
went to slaughter. I was able to touch their wet snouts this morning at a vigil ... |
When I first decided to launch
this site, I had a few domain names in mind. Good, Better, Best
Susan 1.19 
Best is a subjective term,
and one that should not be used indiscriminately......... |
The Temiskaming Speaker
was a community newspaper, a weekly, with some impact in the community. 
My second apartment was in
High Park, just north of Bloor and close to the subway.... |
Family
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Advice For My Daughter
Penny 11.18 
Seek out the people and places that resonate with your soul
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Only One Mom
Amy Giles 11.18 
Sharing a social media post from
a wise and loving daughter. |
My Child Has Autism
Patricia 12.18 
I didn't begin to notice he
was different until he was three years old... |
Christmas Encounter
Patricia 12.18 
I wasn't thinking about how
spooky it was to be in a dark cemetery close to midnight, even on Christmas night. |
Outdoors & Travel
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Dipping our Toes
Lisa 11.18 
My first foray into a “real” hiking-backpacking-Canadian-outdoor-experience was a disaster.
My Iceland
Sheila 11.18 
It was summer when I
fell in love with Iceland. From the moment I stepped off the plane into the midnight dusk, I was permanently and forever enchanted. |
Teaching Italian Men
Sheila 11.18 
"I'm an annoying Italian man,
please just ignore me," were the words I planned to teach my English language class made up solely of young men from the Naples area. Christmas in Italy
Sheila 12.18 
For my first Christmas
in Italy, Gino suggests a trip to the mountains of Abruzzo, a definite change of scenery from our life on the Gulf of Naples. Read Now |
Fun with Numbers
Lisa 3.19 
In 163 days, our family will
be putting our canoe in the water for our annual wilderness camping adventure. Este Caballo
Sheila 11.18 
Este caballo es muy lindo,
this horse is very beautiful, was one of the useless Spanish phrases I learned before flying to Uruguay, South America for a seven-day equestrian holiday. |
Judith's Journey
Susan 11.18 
She chose an excursion that combined her passions
for learning, history, genealogy, adventure, art, food, wine and friends into the trip of a lifetime. |