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How Driving A Vintage Car Can Improve Your Life
My first car was a 1972 Volkswagen Super Beetle. It was a great car for a 17-year-old, barring the fact it had no airbags, no power steering or brakes, and was about as durable as a tin can. It was a fun car to drive and served its purpose, but as I got older and…
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Are You Choosing Busy Over Happy?
Everybody is so busy these days. Running here, there, and everywhere in an effort to get things done. In a world that tells us it’s important to have more, to do more; we find ourselves spread thin trying to do it all. When I look around at all this ‘busy-ness,’ I wonder if I am…
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Connection
Connection. To find a way to you. A bridge. A bow line. A tunnel. A link in a daisy chain. That is why I write this blog. To connect. To connect with you. With people I love. With strangers. With myself. With the universe. I feel that is why we are put on this planet.…
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Having The Confidence To Just Be
I am going to get real for a moment. A little bit vulnerable. You may or may not have noticed, I haven’t posted in a while. Nothing. Nada. Haven’t even written a word. In all honesty, I surfed 5 out of the last 6 days. Something I rarely do anymore since I’ve started writing and…
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It Starts With Yes
Here is an acoustic version of one of the songs he played. Last Sunday I got a phone call. It was 8:20 at night. I had just put on my pajamas and was ready to settle down to binge watch House Of Cards. The voice on the other end was my girlfriend Kristy. “Come…
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Why I Started Getting Tattoos in my 40s
A few years ago, I got my first tattoo. It was a birthday gift to myself. I cannot remember a time in my adult life when I didn’t want a tattoo. I loved everything about them. Or, I should say, I loved everything about the ones that were done well. The beauty. The color. The artistic…
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Feeling Grateful?
A few years ago I was taking life for granted and needed a wake up call. Luckily, I got one . . . literally! Join me over at Best Kept Self today where I am talking about how with gratitude, we can truly be our best. Salty Kisses, Karen
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Turning Your Passions And Dreams Into Reality
How do we turn our passions, what we love, into our dreams, what we desire, into our reality? First off, let me give you my salty definition of passions and dreams. Passions are the things you would spend all day doing if you could. Things that makes your heart soar. Turning a passion into a dream makes…
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Putting The Broken Pieces Back Together: A Visit With My Siblings
A few weeks ago I was reminded what a special bond adult siblings hold. No matter the baggage, carried from a lifetime of disagreements and disappointments, this bond is like no other. It’s an interesting connection we form with the people we grow up with. The people who are intimately involved in the circumstances that…
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What Are You Doing With Your 30,000 Days?
If we are lucky enough to have a normal life expectancy, we will live into our 8os. That is approximately 30,000 days. Days! Our life can be reduced to days! This number, 30,000, made me start to think about my life differently. Life is not infinite. I know sometimes we feel it is; we feel…