Life: unmasked
Critics Don’t Count. Dare To Get Out There.
I heard this quoted by Dr. Brene (‘breh-NAY’) Brown on an episode of Oprah’s “Super Soul Sunday” show. The entire show is well worth your time, especially if you’re like me, dissatisfied with shallowness and pretending, but afraid of failing or being criticized.
Read MoreStress Weight Gain and Loss and Finally Getting Healthy ~ Life:Unmasked
I’m telling a very personal story today for this month’s Life:Unmasked link-up: about my weight. (If you are like me and forgot, I decided to change things up and only host this link-up once a month on a Saturday. I forgot to do it last month and realized today that this is the last Saturday…
Read MoreNot Naked, and Not Ashamed ~ A Guest Post
Many of you have asked me good questions about my posts on writing naked: what to share and what not to share, when to share, and what to do with the parts of those stories that aren’t yours. These questions do not have easy answers, but my friend Alise has some very helpful thoughts that…
Read MoreWhen You’re Scared To Write Unmasked (and You Host #LifeUnmasked)
I’ve been hosting a link-up I call “Life: Unmasked” on Wednesdays for over a year now, in an effort to encourage you and I to stop pretending and be real… to write naked. A few brave souls link up each week, sharing the always complicated, never perfect, often messy truth about themselves, their lives, their…
Read MoreIn Defense of Steady | Life:Unmasked
Steady isn’t very flashy and exciting. Steady is enduring and stable. It’s the straightaway. No loop-the-loops or corkscrews or stomach-in-your-throat drops. Just forward, and not very fast. I can be a bit of a thrill junkie. I love the adrenaline rush of being part of something new, something dramatic, something big and important. Having a…
Read More@%!* People Say On Facebook About Politics ~ Life:Unmasked
My Facebook newsfeed gets nearly unbearable during a presidential election cycle. Many of my friends and I don’t even read it anymore, or we block our more extreme friends so we don’t have to see all the vitriol. This week, we decided to find the humor in all of the name-calling, gloom and doom predictions, and…
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