Life, hope, lifestyle and everything beautiful
Sticky notes will never die! No matter how connected to our multiple devices we are, there is nothing like a paper reminder. I still need them as well as other people, I’ve noted. I even see the tech departments of schools using them! These reminders are not only to the self but quick notes to […]
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Life is an unrehearsed play where we only get one chance to get it right or at least do our best. We come unprepared with no prior script because other people’s old scripts are seldom of any use to us, especially in youth when we think we actually know it all and have yet to […]
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I have just come back from Nicaragua where I chaperoned a trip with two other colleagues and 17 eighth graders. The purpose of this trip was to help build a school in the impoverished region of el Jicarito. I should say one of many. Education there is a luxury only a few children have access […]
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Today, in the rush of getting everything ready for my upcoming trips and a new chapter of my life after the divorce, I consigned the jewelry my ex-husband gave me. I was very lucky to take them to a place where they treated me so well. They made the experience less unpleasant. An amazing company […]
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I have quite a few springs behind me, yet come the season it never ceases to surprise me and fill my heart and soul with hope and enthusiasm. No matter how sad, dammed and depressed I’ve been, these longer days with the scent of flowers and sight of green have always brought my soul some respite. […]
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It’s time, she whispered. I agreed. It was time to get up and move on. Living out of a suitcase is more than fine, what’s not is staying still in time, waiting for a future that may never come. So, I packed up my mental bags and rethought my plans and situation, and decided to be […]
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There are many ways to let off steam, one is by voicing how you feel even if what you say may hurt another. What I told my father, was one of the worst things you can tell a dad, but I felt the urge to tell another human being how I was feeling and he […]
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I have 5 children. They are not really mine, I’m just their aunt, but they feel like my own children ever since they were born. I’ve already suffered their growing pains since they were little and now that they are in their teens I feel a sort of loss, every real parent must feel. But no matter […]
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At certain times in life when the path you tread is full of potholes, winding roads, steep hills where you never seem to get to the top to get a wider view of the road ahead, all you have to sustain you in this journey is hope. Without hope, you fall into the deep darkness […]
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In Spanish, the expression is not as optimistic ‘mal de muchos, consuelo de tontos,’ meaning something very different. In Spanish, it comes to mean that it’s silly to believe that finding comfort in other people’s similar problems is foolish. I don’t agree with the Spanish version, I believe in the English expression because I do […]
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