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  • My So Called Life,  Living Single

    2020 – Hindsight and the New Year

    December 26, 2019 /No Comments

    2009: unhappy marriage, SAHM, church choir. 2019: divorced, dream job, five cats, paying my own bills. Feels like I am doing better. Room for improvement, but that's ok.

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    Merry Christmas to Me – the Gift of Peace

    December 25, 2019 /No Comments

    I didn't invite my mother and brother for Christmas this year. My mother tried everything to get invited. I woke up at noon and felt nothing but peace. Merry Christmas to me.

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    The Home Ec Files

    The Furniture Wonderland – My life and IKEA

    May 1, 2019 /No Comments

    IKEA loyalist since age 10. Forty-something years later it's still the place I go to make a house feel like home and pretend everything isn't falling apart.

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    Midlife Musings

    Achievement Unlocked: Back to Work and Getting My Shit Together

    April 9, 2019 /No Comments

    I applied on a lark, did the phone interview half asleep, and somehow landed a job at my dream company. Here's what getting my shit together actually feels like.

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    Midlife Musings,  Living Single

    Why I’m Missing Out – Stuck on the Edge of the Dating Pool

    April 8, 2019 /No Comments

    Six years divorced and I panic at the chance of a gas station meet cute. I want to get back in the dating pool. I just can't let go of the edge.

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