Birthday Cupcake from Crestock Stock Photos

Today my daughter turns 16.
How can it be that 16 years have passed since the day I brought her into this world?
It just seems like yesterday…
So much has happened in those 16 years. I had such hopes and dreams for our lives.
Things changed.
Boy, did they change!
I hoped to [...]

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notebook -write your text- from Crestock Stock Images

I was looking through an old notebook this morning and found something that struck me as funny/sad all at the same time.
I turned a page and it said, “My Strategy 11/29/06.” Sounds like I was on the right track, eh???
Uh… Wrong answer!
The problem was, there was nothing on [...]

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Welcome to crunch time…

Tax forms from Crestock Royalty Free Images

I’ve had my site for several years now, and I just found out from my accountant that I have to make a profit this year to keep from having it go into “hobby” status.
What does that mean to me?
Well, that means that I can’t [...]

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Last night on my way home, I got run off the road by a woman texting who almost sideswiped me. She was oblivious to what she was doing. I guess the thought since she had her phone up by the steering wheel it was fine.
It was until she didn’t negotiate a turn and ended [...]

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After a period of long and agonizing soul searching, I came to the conclusion that my current situation was no longer in my best interest. Too many obstacles that had always been there that I thought I could handle such as:

living 30+ minutes away from my daughter’s school (and driving her back and forth on [...]

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