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I'm a freelance writer and editor specializing in Law of Attraction and humor, which is probably considered one-and-the-same to some people. I've been a humor columnist for newspapers in Orlando and in Oregon.

I discovered Abraham-Hicks a few years ago,

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Health & Fitness > Diet & Weight Loss Tips for weight loss: 8 of 28
The process of reaching your ideal weight is the same as required to manifest any desire. 1) Make peace with where you are right now. Find things to appreciate. Become as happy and content with where you are as you can possibly be, even to the point of (almost) saying, "If nothing changes, it's still OK." It's so important t... More..
Health & Fitness > Personality Disorders Pursuit of perfectionism: 2 of 7
Let's hear it for perfectionism! To clarify, I'm not referring to the kind where a person goes berserk if they don't make straight A's in school, if they gain a pound or two, or if someone spills Kool-Aid on the carpet. I'm not recommending that sort of perfectionism. (Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, but it had some ... More..
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Teenagers and cell phones: 2 of 7
Calling for Help My teenage daughter got a new cell phone, and I'm utterly confused. It's as if my brain is saying in a recorded woman's voice, "If you'd like to think a thought, please hang up and try again." I cry out for olden times, when a phone to a teenager meant having his/her own extension in the bedroom. Now things ... More..
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Cars: 19 of 64
Driving Miss Crazy A friend told how her mother moved to a large city and was panic-stricken when trying to merge onto the freeway. "How could anyone be so clueless?" I responded, choking on the words. For I, too, was once afraid of traffic My phobia stemmed from high school driver's ed, where we were required to compile a s... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Heaven, Hell & Afterlife Understanding the concept of eternity: 10 of 33
A friend was on her way to our Friday night Abraham-Hicks discussion group last week when she received a frantic phone call from her daughter-in-law. Our friend's son had suddenly become very ill and was having trouble getting his breath. So she rushed to his home over on the coast, and she was with him and his wife and two ... More..
Computers & Technology > Internet Security & Safety (Other) How to avoid Internet scams: 7 of 23
Identity Crisis Averted Each day, I receive sob-story emails that appeal for help and offer to make me rich. They arrive from unknown people around the globe with names such as Namimbus Ferrari, Joseph Nabatu, Mrs. Mary Lynn Fincter, and Horace Addlington, Esq. In most emails, someone close to the writer has met a horrible e... More..
Celebrations & Holidays > Christmas Christmas disaster humor stories: You know things are going badly when...: 6 of 18
Christmas From Hades It seemed like a simple, enjoyable Christmas tradition - trimming the tree. But even the best holiday ritual can turn ugly. It began when I retrieved our artificial tree from the attic. (O.K., so it's not a freshly cut Norfolk pine, but ANYTHING can be transformed with a little artificial snow and some f... More..
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Christmas greetings: 1 of 3
Getting Carded at Christmas For years, I sent out photocopied Christmas letters with my Christmas cards. The letters contained the usual updates on each family member plus zany hand-drawn, crayon-colored (I'm low-tech) illustrations. My elderly mother, now in heaven finding ways to criticize the harp playing of the angels, w... More..
Home & Garden > Home Repair (Other) Tips for painting a room: 10 of 29
My Brush With Painting I have a new skill to add to my talents of expert microwaver and prize zucchini-grower: I can paint walls. Well, sort of. When my feller, Mark, and I bought our house, I said, "Let's paint the interior ourselves!" Mark complied, eager to save money after we learned our gargantuan mortgage payments are ... More..
Health & Fitness > Depression What thoughts run through your mind when you are depressed?: 17 of 47
The way in which we become depressed is to think depressing thoughts. Long-term. Repeatedly. Some people maintain that depression runs in their family and thus they have a biochemical predisposition. More likely, though, they have picked up their habits of thought from family members. Genetics is a tiny influence compared to... More..