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10 Ways to Be Happy

Do what you love. Spend quality time with others. Take time for yourself. Explore your dreams. Communicate honestly with others. Be true to yourself. Choose quality over quantity of friends. Have good hobbies. Beware the pull of money. Love what you do. Sam Continue reading 10 Ways to Be Happy

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Luxury Tax

I always hated the Luxury Tax space on the Monopoly game board, conveniently located between the highest priced properties in the game — Park Place, and Boardwalk.It always hit me at a time when I could least afford it, at the exact time I needed to be somewhere else, anywhere else. It killed me because … Continue reading Luxury Tax

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The Middle Place

A while ago I read this book by Kelly Corrigan entitled The Middle Place. It was all about the shifting nature of familial relationships. We are born and we become the new generation, the young whipper-snappers who will inherit the world when we come of age. But then we come of age and we’re not … Continue reading The Middle Place

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Standing Between

She stands in that space between ecstasy and agony, forced to make an impossible decision between two men who equally have her heart, or maybe not as equally as she’s led everyone else to believe. Because if it were as balanced as she has hinted at, then this, this would be impossible. But we, her … Continue reading Standing Between