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Living Your Best Life
Diary of a Newbie
Acrylic Pouring Artist

Susan 4.19
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I wasn't expecting anything
life-changing to happen
when I attended an
​Acrylic Pouring workshop....
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Could Home-Based Selling
Work for You?

Susan 2.19
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Could a home-based sales
business be the ticket to freedom?
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It's Good to Lose your Bookmark
Every Once in a While

Penny 2.19
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Sometimes looking back can
help you to move forward....
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Authenticity & Body Positivity

Susan. 12.18
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Real talk on Authenticity &
The Skinny on Body Positivity
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Could It Be?
Penny 11.18
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Could happiness be
​ right under your nose?
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Diary of a NAPA #2
and Sheila Showcase

Susan 4.19
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Updates from the Acrylic
Pour Guru and Grasshopper
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The Good Life
Susan 2.19
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Words of wisdom on
​happiness....
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Humility, Humanity
Susan 1.19
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What does humility have to 
​do with empowerment?
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Beauty & the Beast
Susan 12.18
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Beauty and the beasts of
definition, perception and aging
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Mothers of Reinvention
Susan 11.18
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Sometimes, it feels like you
just have to sweep everything
​ off the table and start over.  ​​
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Diary NAPA #3
Acrylic Pouring Swipe Technique

Susan 5.19
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Loving the swipe technique
for artistic control....
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February Blues
Susan 2.19
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Who loves February?
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Resurrection of the Crone
Susan. 12.18
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A project by a local photographer
designed to change societal
perceptions of mature women.
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Winter Solstice
Susan 12.18
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A time to reflect as the
​year draws to a close....
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​Don't Borrow Trouble
Penny 11.18
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Don’t borrow trouble -- three
simple words strung together
to make a statement that, on
the surface, is relatively easy
to understand. 

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Retirement Road
Susan 3.19
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Does the inner you
have a vision for
​retirement?
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Wavelengths
Susan. 2.19
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Connections,waves and circles
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Victoria's Secret vs. Inclusivity
Susan 12.18
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Recent protests against
the non-inclusive policies
of Victoria's Secret....  
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Being Accountable to Me
Guest:  Suzanne Forster 12.18
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Do you ever feel like you’re
not living the life you really want? That you’ve gotten lost
somewhere along the way ...
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​The Gift of Time
​Penny 11.18​
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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
Weight Loss Primer
​Susan 11.18
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Simple tips for your
​weight loss journey
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Weight Loss Climate
Susan 11.18
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Trendiness and
misinformation online, 
​extremism in nutrition....
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Rock Your Resolutions
Susan 11.18
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On the road to a new, healthier
​lifestyle this January?
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The Stress Scale
​Susan 1.19
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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
Susan's Musings
Letter to November
Sheila 11.18
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Dear November,
I feel I owe you an apology.
​For years now, I have spent
October dreading your arrival. 
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Life Is Hard
Patricia 11.18
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Here is an experience I'd like to
share. I was at the Greyhound
bus terminal in Buffalo, NY ...
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9/11 - Choose Love
​Penny 11.18
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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...
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This Little Piggy
Patricia 11.18
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​These little piggies
went to slaughter.
 I was able to touch their
wet snouts this ​morning
​at a vigil  ...
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​What's In A Name?
​Susan 11.18
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When I first decided to launch
this site, I had a few domain
​names in mind. 
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Good, Better, Best
Susan 1.19
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Best is a subjective term,
and one that should not
​be used indiscriminately.........
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Reporter's Reminiscences
​Susan 11.18
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​The Temiskaming Speaker
was a community newspaper,
a weekly, with some impact
in the community.
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​Urbanite's Reminiscences
Susan 11.18
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My second apartment was in
High Park, just north of Bloor
and close to the subway.... ​
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Family​
Advice For My Daughter
Penny 11.18
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Seek out the people and places that resonate with your soul
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Only One Mom
Amy Giles 11.18
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Sharing a social media post from
​a wise and loving daughter.
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My Child Has Autism
Patricia 12.18
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I didn't begin to notice he
was different until he was
​three years old...
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Christmas Encounter
Patricia 12.18
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​I wasn't thinking about how
spooky it was to be in a
dark cemetery close to
midnight, even on
​Christmas night. ​
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Outdoors & Travel 
Dipping our Toes
Lisa 11.18
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My first foray into a “real” hiking-backpacking-Canadian-outdoor-experience was a disaster.
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My Iceland
Sheila 11.18
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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.  ​
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Teaching Italian Men
Sheila 11.18 
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"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.
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Christmas in Italy
Sheila 12.18
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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. 
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Fun with Numbers
Lisa 3.19
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 In 163 days, our family will
be putting our canoe in the
​water for our annual wilderness camping adventure.
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Este Caballo
​Sheila 11.18
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​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.
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Judith's Journey
​Susan 11.18
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​She chose an excursion that combined her passions
for ​ learning, history,
genealogy, adventure, art,
food, wine and friends into
​the trip of a lifetime.  ​
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    • Sue Dickens
    • Anne Marie Taylor-Powney
    • Justine Vikse
    • Shebat Legion
    • Jessica Wedden
    • Cassidy Tizzard
    • Laurie Anne King
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    • Tanya Wills
    • Karie Jackson-Hall
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