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It’s a new year. 2026. I never thought I would see it. But here it is with all its potential for being the best year yet! Every year has this potential. It’s like January arrives and we suddenly are filled with all the ideas and thoughts about things we want to accomplish in the new year. And then, about a week or a month later a whole lot of people either forget about their goals or simply do not have the drive or ambition to carry through with their plans. According to Dr

A few years ago, I wrote about my friend Stacey Kananen. She and her family lived in the Clarissa area, and we were classmates for a few years—from about second grade until around fifth or sixth grade. After Stacey and her family left without saying a word (her mom, Marilyn, had worked in the office at the Central Todd County Care Center), we kept in contact for a while, but eventually we lost touch. Another friend helped me reconnect with Stacey years later when Jerene (Pe

I turned 60 on Sunday. For the most part it was just like every other day of the last year it just had a different name. What was different was the mindset that came with the event that wasn’t very eventful. I spent a lot of time thinking and pondering what, if anything, turning 60 meant. Was I supposed to have some big epiphany and suddenly see clarity? Was I supposed to evaluate my entire life and my decisions and come to some groundbreaking conclusion? Turns out, 60 is

I just returned from some training for my oils business that took place in Nashville, Tennessee. It was awesome. More than the training,...

I was part of a special training that took place this past weekend. It was for the business I do in my spare time (I know! What is spare...

I think if I see or hear one more advertisement for GLP-1 injections, I will quite possibly scream! I watched one GLP-1 weight loss...

This one is a hard one to write... There is a lot of feeling and pain behind it. You see, I shouldn’t be here writing this, sitting at...

Fear-1 Self-0 I was planning something big. I was planning something HUGE. But I let fear stand in my way. You see, I should be writing...

Consequences... Have you ever made a decision that maybe you shouldn’t have made? And then, after you made it, you had to deal with the...

New Beginnings… There always seems to be something new happening, even when we think nothing is changing. I had a garage sale this past...