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Friday Flashback: When Hope Ends and Somehow Begins Again
Featuring Natasha Bedingfield — Soulmate There are songs that don’t just remind you of a time period. They remind you of who you were emotionally when you lived inside that season of life. Soulmate was that song for me. Around 2010, I listened to it constantly while an on-again, off-again relationship finally, definitively ended. And…
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National Get Up Day: The Quiet Strength of Getting Back Up
National Get Up Day lands at an interesting time of year. January ends, winter still feels long, and many people are already tired of pushing toward goals they set just a few weeks ago. The ice-skating connection makes sense because skating teaches something most of us resist learning in life: that falling is not failure.…
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Wednesday Wisdom: A Parent-to-Parent Heart-to- Heart About Roblox
Let me start here: if your kids have played Roblox, you didn’t fail as a parent. Most of us said yes because it was 2020, the world shut down, our kids were isolated, and Roblox looked like creativity, connection, and harmless fun wrapped in bright colors. We were doing the best we could with what…
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Why ‘Vienna’ Encourages a Slower Pace in Life
There are songs that feel like they were written for adulthood, even if you first heard them much younger. “Vienna” is one of those. It waits for you. You don’t fully understand it at first, and then one day it quietly taps you on the shoulder and says, “You’re tired because you’ve been rushing.” Billy…
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Slow Sunday Feature
Keeping It Real (and Really Vintage) with Kelly Szabo A conversation on calling, caregiving, and the sacred work of secondhand Editor’s Note There are creators you watch for tips, and then there are creators you return to because they make you feel grounded.Kelly Szabo is both. I’ve known Kelly online for years now, long before…
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Manic Monday, Time, and the Spaces We Can’t Control
After today, there are only a couple of Mondays left in this year, and it feels like time has been moving as fast as the Millennium Falcon jumping to hyperspace. One moment you’re planning, the next you’re wondering how the calendar flipped so quickly. Somewhere along the way, the days began to blur, and now…
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Tuesday Tip: Getting Personal — Faith in a Broken World
I was in college when I first began to seriously wrestle with faith. Raised in an atheist household, I had become a Christian in high school, much to the dismay of my father, who warned me of the dangers of organized religion. He believed faith was a crutch for the weak. I believed something deeper…
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Manic Monday, Rewritten: The Resolution That Changes Everything
We talk a lot about Resolution Blueprints for business. The goals. The strategy. The quarterly plans. The scalability. But what about your personal life? What about the space you wake up in, work inside of, and try to rest within when the laptop finally closes, if it ever really does? Working from home can be…
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Create Your 2026 Resolution Blueprint Today
HELLO YOU, YES YOU WITH BIG DREAMS AND ZERO TIME. LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR 2026 RESOLUTION BLUEPRINT Joe Goalberg would walk into your living room, see the overflowing laundry basket, the half-written content calendar, the cold coffee on the counter, and he would tilt his head the way he does when he knows you are…
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ThrowbackThursday | Keyboard Warriors & The Cost of Disrespect
Mike Tyson once said:“Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.” As a Gen Xer, I can’t help but nod in agreement. We grew up in an era where you had to say things face-to-face. You knew there were consequences if your words cut…
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The Algorithm of Outrage: Not Every Headline Deserves Your Peace
We live in a time where outrage is currency. Social media feeds us headlines designed to spark emotion, arguments, and clicks. The more heated we get, the more the algorithm wins. But here’s the truth: not every headline deserves your peace. Parasocial Relationships and the Illusion of Intimacy With the rise of social media, we’ve…
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Tuesday Tip: When Identity Becomes Religion and the Revival That Follows
I’m 51 years old, a Gen Xer who grew up believing in liberal ideals. For most of my life, I thought I understood what it meant to be a Democrat: fighting for fairness, standing up for the underdog, and pushing for progress. But over time, I began to see a shift. For me, the change…
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