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The Singular Mission

The Beauty of The Singular Mission

Posted on October 25, 2021October 1, 2025

Regular life has a lot of shit going on, doesn’t it? Too much really. And having a job and paying the bills is more than enough to deal with, but trying to parent in this digital age is an added burden I didn’t anticipate when I signed up for this whole parenting thing. Trying to…

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When All Vanity is Gone

Posted on October 19, 2021April 2, 2025

I never thought myself guilty of vanity until I had my health taken away from me. Before all this drama with nerve damage, what people thought of me was not a major concern because I didn’t worry about other people’s standards, just my own. As long as I was living up to my standards, I…

Positivity Can Get Old For Everyone Else

Posted on June 24, 2021January 7, 2026

Tick-tock. Tick-tock. Tick. Tock. Tick… Tock. The hours and days and years have dragged on. For 1356 days I’ve been living with electrifying pain in my esophagus and spine, making it impossible to eat without pain. Impossible to sleep laying down. Impossible to exercise — even walk — without spasms running up my back. And…

brown wooden blocks on white table

Fight for the Smiles, Life Is Happening Now

Posted on May 5, 2021October 20, 2025

Things go wrong in our lives and sometimes we wish we could just get away for awhile. Erase the past and get a redo. Take a timeout. Retreat. I know for me, chronic nerve pain has been a noose around my neck that has made me wave the white flag of retreat more than once….

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