July 2011

Men Speak, Women Weep

by Carol Hess on July 29, 2011

Funeral services make no sense to me.  Why do the men do all the speaking, and the women do all the weeping?  When we come together to celebrate a life and mourn a death, why do we turn to the men to tell us who we have lost and how we feel about it?  Why [...]

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Yes You Can

by Carol Hess on July 26, 2011

(Today I was looking for something on my computer I never found, but I found this instead.  The inspiration for this piece of writing was the inauguration of President Obama on January 20, 2009.  That seems like a lifetime ago, and it was.  In the time that’s gone by, I’ve opened and closed the doors of [...]

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Categories Personal Empowerment, The Art of Star Polishing

Geographic Cure

by Carol Hess on July 23, 2011

I haven’t been able to sleep the last couple of nights, and it’s because I’m so excited.  Remember when you were a child and you were so excited you couldn’t sleep the night before something big – Christmas, your birthday, the family vacation trip? Well, that’s how I’ve been the last couple of nights.  Why?  [...]

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Categories Healthy Lifestyle, Personal Empowerment, Self Care, The Art of Star Polishing

Keep Your Cool

by Carol Hess on July 21, 2011

This would be about the time when I should be publishing a new blog post.  But you know what?  It’s just too darned hot.  My brain is fried, and my creative juices have evaporated.  So I am hereby giving myself permission to not do my blog perfectly.  I hereby give myself a pass on this [...]

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Categories Self Care

I Wish You Would Do Something About Your Weight

by Carol Hess on July 14, 2011

“I wish you would do something about your weight.”  Boom!  Ruth just dropped the weight bomb on me.  “Really, Ruth?  And I wish you would do something about your mouth.”  Of course I didn’t say it, but I wanted to.   Ruth is an old family friend who has always been a big fan of mine [...]

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Categories Personal Empowerment, Self Care, The Art of Star Polishing, The Mind Game, Weight Loss

If Not Now, When?

by Carol Hess on July 11, 2011

For Neil  We spend 99.9% of our time on this planet in denial of the fact that our time on this planet is finite.  That’s just plain nuts.  I don’t have a clue what does or doesn’t await us when we get done here.  I prefer to believe that I live on in some form [...]

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The Absurd Weight Loss Numbers Game

by Carol Hess on July 6, 2011

I have never been a fan of numbers.  It started when my mathematically gifted father didn’t pass his gift on to me.  To add insult to injury, I am somewhat dyslexic with numbers – a condition that went undetected and wrecked havoc with my relationship with numbers.  I got so discouraged when I saw “Careless [...]

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Categories The Mind Game, Weight Loss