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A Family Update

Hello sweet friends, This blog post is taken from my weekly newsletter, Pop of Positivity, which I send out each week. If you’re not subscribed, please do, so you won’t miss a thing! I hope you had a wonderfully restful holiday this weekend with your friends and family and those of us in the US…

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What Keeps You Doing It?

Good morning my friend! As you may remember, I started Cold Plunging back in the fall. I used my backyard pool starting when the water was in the 60s. As it cooled off and we got into winter, I kept at it, and as you might remember from this picture, “swam” all the way down…

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Something Different Today

Hello sweet friend! I thought I would do something a little differently this week as I’ve been working on my newest book, Pickleball Evangelism – How to Start, Run and Grow a Church Pickleball Program, and as I was working on it, I thought you might be interested in reading a excerpt from the introduction.…

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Are You Too Old?

Good morning sweet friend! This week I was talking with a friend about Pickleball (what else?!) and she said she would like to try it, but she thought she was just too old to learn how. (She’s 62.) Several weeks ago, I was talking with another friend about her career ambitions. She said there were…

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What You CAN Do

Hello sweet friend! Wow! What a lot of “things” are going on in this world right now. If you watch the news at all, it’s not good news for anyone. Often, when I’m surrounded by negativity, I lament, then I think, “But what can I do?” And it hit me, that the best thing we…

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An Easy Way to Add More Joy

Happy Wednesday my friend! This week as I was thinking about what I wanted to share with you, it came to mind that one of the biggest joys in my life is something I haven’t shared much about. Not because I don’t think about it, or because it’s in any way difficult, or it’s something…

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Finding Your Wonder and Awe

Happy Wednesday my friend! It’s one of those miraculous spring days here in Texas with the sun shining in a cloudless sky, the air cool and perfectly warm, with just a hint of a light breeze wafting around your body… (ahhhhhhh.) And it’s just that “Ahhhhhh” feeling I want to discuss with you today. That…

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Why I Do What I Don’t Want To Do

Happy Wednesday my friend! Let me ask you a question… When it comes to doing certain things in your life, do you do them because you want to do them, or have to do them? Let’s take something like making dinner for your family. I don’t know about you, but I’m responsible for the nightly…

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Happy Wednesday my friend! It’s 80 degrees, sunny, and the humidity is still pretty low, and I have to admit I’ve been hit with a severe case of Spring Fever! 🙂 I don’t really want to do much but be outside playing in this beautiful weather…. But, clearer heads are prevailing, and instead of being…

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How to Find More Energy

Hey there my friend! Happy Monday from sunny Texas. My 16-year-old is off on a school mission trip to Greece, and my sweet 20-year-old is covering the amazing South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin for her newspaper (The Daily Texan), so Tom and I are enjoying an unusually empty nest this week…changes all around!…

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Ready to Start Something New?

Happy Wednesday my friend! This morning I was interviewed for a midlife summit, and we were talking about things that hold us back in midlife. I actually think these things can hold us back no matter where we are in life, so I wanted to share a couple tips with you too. If you have…

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Tell Me About Your Expectations

Happy Valentine’s Day my friend! The day of LOVE….ahhhh. In 6th grade, I was in love with Russel Roberts. I thought he was just the cutest thing ever with his sweet smile and floppy brown hair that hid his chocolate brown eyes. I was definitely in the “friend zone” for him, but I was sure…

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