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Hello, welcome, and if you’re new or it’s been awhile… a couple things

True or false?

  • work life balance role models don’t exist
  • balance is impossible
  • someday never comes
  • stressed to the max

All false.

A parenting challenge accidentally led to discovering the secret ingredients necessary to achieve work life balance, which ultimately frees us to not waste another day in chasing our wildest dreams.

Please scroll down for the daily posts, or read the bit in the right-hand column for more clarity.

What makes Sunday bloody Sunday?

old sayings
As a child, I remember hearing adults say, “He pissed his life away”.

What makes Sunday bloody Sunday?

That haunting feeling we have from not living the life we had dreamt of as a child.

The only thing that makes this worse is telling ourselves this is permanent.

With all the local buzz about the Walt Disney World marathon, we can’t help but fantasize about better health. Not to be a downer, but we need to come to terms with this reality.

In Memory, by Lorie Sheffer, Guest blogger

photo of ceremonial arch at beach
What a wonderful gift today is and will be (photo: Lorie Sheffer)

My friend died this week. She and I had lost touch over the years, as people often do. We met years ago, when our daughters were eight or nine years old and cheered for a local midget football program. She was fun and easy to get along with, and after all these years I can’t picture her any way but smiling or laughing.

Today, when I read her obituary, the similarities between us were striking. We were almost the same age, our daughters have the same first name, and our grandsons have the same first AND last names, save for one letter difference in the spelling. She loved to garden, she loved the beach; she loved spending time with her family.

Today, I have a boring list of errands to run. I want to get my flu shot, belated as usual. The monotonous task of scrubbing residual wallpaper paste from the walls of my adult son’s childhood bedroom lies before me. I’m already thinking of something easy to make for this evening’s dinner. I can’t help but think what a wonderful gift this day will be.