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I'm sitting outside on my Dad's timber ranch, when I spot in the distance a bird I've never seen before, with a tan body and pretty blue/green wings. I remember that I have a pair of binoculars in my bedroom and I rush
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I'm in the waiting room right now. You know the feeling, when you are in between point A and B but you can't get to B yet so you're just... waiting. It sucks. You've done everything you can to get to point
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My week-long road trip (moved from Seattle to TX) reset my brain. Today I cleaned up my notes app and there were so many pointers on how to reduce anxiety and increase my focus. So many writings where I went around in circles overthinking my move, my personal life, my
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Short answer: I don't. I force myself to write each day, ideas be damned. Most days, I sit down at my computer with no friggin' clue what I'm going to blog about today. At times, I agonize about it and I want to skip the
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My best friend and I live in different states and I only get to see her about once a year. Today was that day. She has known me for 13 years and she loves and accepts me fully. Being around her is the most wonderful thing, it's like
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> Ugh I'm so happy I think I'm going to cry in public It's almost midnight, I just got to Boise, sitting outside at a bar listening to live music and getting terrible service. It feels like life is normal again. He just played
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Today was perfect. Perfect weather, perfect company, a perfect walk to a park with a harbor seal (so cute!). It was the best send-off I could get. Gasworks park todayI am really glad I chose to live here last year, even though it didn't last long. The move
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I sometimes think that successful people are born with these innate gifts that us mere mortals don't have. It seems like every time I hear a great entrepreneur talk about their life, it goes like, "Oh I've been selling things since they was 7!"
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It's late at night after a non-stop day. I totally forgot about writing tonight. In the case of 'emergencies' like this, I have a small backlog of pre-written posts so I can keep up my daily posting goals. Tonight I picked a piece I wrote a
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I've never felt less American than 4th of July last year. Every time I return to the USA after being gone for a long time, I experience culture shock in a completely new, unexpected way. In 2019, I'd just returned after a year and a half
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> "Integrity means having only one self." -Glennon Doyle A few years ago, I had two selves. I dated a coworker and decided to keep my relationship a secret. I started to lose my personal integrity without me even realizing it. I got used to omitting a part
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Lately I've been writing more and more posts that I delete shortly after. In these posts, I scrutinize my behavior and point out areas where I'm weak and could improve. They're really good for helping me become a better person, but lately they haven&