Smiling is fun…really! You should try it. Yeah yeah yeah…we all hear about how smiling is good for you. How being happy is good for you. It’s true…it really is. However, I’m not here to talk about all the health benefits of having a positive attitude (and I’ll try to refrain from getting to all the scientific research that shows
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Almost Six Months It’s been almost six months since my mother passed away. I can honestly say this is by far the hardest thing that I have ever gone through. I’m coping, I’m managing, but understandably I still have my moments. I feel very fortunate to have a very loving family and a very great group of supportive friends that
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My mom has taught me many lessons throughout life. Obviously when I was a young child she taught me the basics of life. However, as I got older many of the lessons that I learned from her were not “taught” per se but more of observations on my part…observations on how I should live my life in order to be
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I’ve obviously been a bit tied up for the past couple months as my mother deals with pancreatic cancer. I just sent an email off to a friend (we call him the Egg Man) and he had asked how she was doing. I sent the following…and realized just what an inspiration this woman is. I almost wish she was a
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Ah yes…there you are my fellow Wax Porhetoric readers. I know, I know, I’ve been gone for a while. So so sorry for letting you all down but I’ve got my reasons. Some of them good (dog/cat/house-sitting for a friend and working on getting an old computer to work) and some because I’m just plain human (ie, stressed as hell
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I had a great day yesterday and was pondering why it was such a great day. I didn’t get a great new job offer or anything. Didn’t win the lottery. Didn’t achieve some new goal in life. So what was so great about my day? The fact I spent it with great people…from the moment I woke up to the
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Hello and happy day to you fellow Wax Porhetoricers (I’m going to keep making up words here and there…some have already taken hold over the years…rock on, rock on…). I apologize for my absence lately. A few things have come up, one of which will spawn another posting once I’m ready. Until then, we can revisit the notion of “putting
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Welcome back fellow readers and lovers of life. Today we talk about getting your day started right and enjoying a good day as a result of that. Have you ever noticed your good days seem to be entirely good? “Oh my…I just had a great day. It started off right and everything just fell into place.” Awesome…awesome. Conversely, have you
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In good times and bad, we’ve got to keep the faith. Often that is easier said than done, especially in the bad times, but it’s true. Hello again my fellow wanderers through life. It’s time for us to yet again slow down, take a breath, and recollect ourselves. Times are a bit rough out there (still no full-time job for
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