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From 10 to 1 What are your top ten favorite movies? My favorite movies number more than 10, but here goes… 10. The Expendables (any of the 3) 9. Rambo (any of them) 8. Rooster Cogburn 7. True Grit 6. Night of the Grizzly 5. We bought a Zoo 4. Yours, Mine, and Ours 3.…
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What do you enjoy most about writing? Writing for me has always been a silent voice, a friend that helps to rid my mind of what clutters its corners, what runs willy-nilly through it clouding my view. There has always been a preponderance of thoughts, emotions, ideas, and questions littering both my mind and soul.…
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What do you love about where you live? My Home is at the end-of-life a dead-end dirt road, in a rural county… I chose to move here because of its natural beauty. The place I call home, My Swampy Bottom Acres, is my sanctuary from the insanity and chaos of the everyday world. When I…
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Reflections on Enduring Positive Emotions Gratitude, with its gentle presence, runs like a golden thread through the fabric of my life. It is not the fleeting spark of celebration nor the bright crescendo of sudden joy, but a steady and abiding glow—a warmth that remains even as the seasons shift, as life evolves again, and…
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How do you plan your goals? I try to be honest always, never been good at lying really. Well, kinda good at lying to myself at times about what I’m going to do, plan to do or have to do, YES… It gets different as you age, you see the goals you failed to reach…
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Create an emergency preparedness plan. Emergency preparedness is something that I do without much thought… I’m the proverbial boy scout, girl scout… I live in the Deep Coastal South, tropical storms, hurricane warnings, and tornado warnings are on my radar. I live on a dirt road in a rural county. Power outages, loss of water,…
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The Nerve Fraying Agony of Overused Phrases Yes, we live in a world saturated with language, where words whirl past us in coffee shops, at work, and through the endless stream of digital conversations that are now everywhere you go. I admit it seems that certain phrases linger longer in my mind than others and…
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The Quiet Sanctuary of Swampy Bottom Acres There is a gentle power in the quiet places we call our own. Peace, so often sought in distant lands or through complicated means, is sometimes waiting beneath our very feet—woven into the soil, the sound of the rain on the tin roof, the whispers of the wind…
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Journalism is the profession I admire most. A much younger me, had the dream of becoming a newspaper writer, a journalist, columnist, the female version of Lewis Grizzard. In a world full of noise and misinformation, REAL journalists stand out as the people who dig for the facts and share them with everyone, even when…
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If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell? It was a dream of mine for a minute, I was nearing the end of my Master’s in Clinical Counseling, working in a Shop downtown where space was rented to vendors who sold whatever they gathered to sell. In older days it…
Dirt Road Therapy 