I had a really, really, really, really good month last month. I met up with some old friends I hadn’t seen in years, found a great campground, had a good month work wise, found a new group of friends to go fishing with this month and all in all - just had a great month!
But I also took on more than I could handle in a couple of areas and learned once again that if you juggle enough plates one or more WILL come crashing down.
It hurts when that happens. …

Hi Jim.
Recently you reached out to me, someone who downloaded your Blurb book software, and asked for my opinion on a survey about your product. I love the software. But the survey didn’t give me anywhere to write about that. I could click radio buttons to indicate an answer and enter myself into your free iPod giveaway, but I really wanted to give you some feedback and tell you how utterly awesome your site is. I’d love to win the iPod, but really I was looking forward to was giving …

I really enjoy reading other people’s blogs. And one of my favorites is Peggy Pepper Wilkerson’s blog. She recently asked her readers if Self-Love was Self-ish. Her answer was “No.” She says, in part:
“… not loving and caring for ourselves first, is the fastest path to one of the biggest and most insidious, self-destructive traps we can fall into—-also, seemingly unique to women. Martrydom. I know you know what I’m talking about. So, when’s the last time you loved being around a martyr? All that self-less-ness, …

I’m never going to have a happy childhood. And guess what? If you didn’t have one, you aren’t going to have one either. If you were abused, betrayed, abandoned, beaten, ignored or set aside so your parent(s) could tend to a terminally ill sibling that’s what you got. It sucks. But that’s what we had. As adults we have two choices about what we can do now. We can wallow in our pain and become a victim, blaming the world or our partner for our loss, and trying to recreate …