This is Charlsie. 💗 My mother. This is Charles. My father. 💕 These gorgeous people started dating in high school… 1949-ish. They married in 1951. They were together until 1977. My sweet momma died 20…
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Why We Do Christmas Differently Here
Watching others experience Christmas differently in 2020 taught me how differently I’ve always done Christmas. Well… not always always. I did have those earliest years of a wishlist and a Santa fulfilling it if I…
The Hummingbird’s Message
This time of year especially, when a hummingbird perches and stops the miraculously speedy flapping of its wings, it’s a more emotional hello from Charlsie, my sweet mother, who passed away December 28, 2000. ✨…
4 Years Sober
Those first days of sobriety were the hardest. Not just because of the physical absence of vodka in my system for the first time in maybe a decade, not just because I was still wrapping…
Baseline Criteria
Hello beauties. Hope you’re hanging in there with all the cray going on. Keep breathing. Keep re-centering. Keep remembering that you are enough! Today, I’m going to share a bit about one of my most…
Heat Holiday: An Investment in Self-Care
Another Heat Holiday in the books. Got a lot of Creative Cave work done. Slept well. Stayed sober and Whole30 compliant and didn’t have too high a pain spike. 💖 I am so grateful we…
Does Altruism Exist? TRANSCEND Homework
“When free of anxiety, fear, and guilt, most people tend to not only move in the direction of the realization of their unique potential but also of goodness.” — Loosely quoted from p. 264, Principle…
How to Deal with Haters
Today was interesting. I got up at 5:45am to attend a millionaire mastermind (this is a mastermind the epic Rachel Rodgers hosts monthly for her members who are knockin’ on a million but can’t seem…
Today the TicTac Turns 31! Vroom Vroom!
On 11 August 1989, a teenaged me made her near-daily visit to Rick Case Mazda in Atlanta to see if the 1990 Mazda Miata she’d ordered more than a month before had made it to…
Next, build THIS!
Thread: For 10 days now, I’ve been undergoing an experiment. I do whatever the fuck I want. Let’s back up and let me provide context. I don’t remember a time — like, maybe back when…