Category: loss
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Yesterday: Friend or Foe
Life offers an endless range of opportunities for success and failure, courage and cowardice, and survival and victimization. Some experiences are carried from one juncture to the next and influence latter outcomes, but other experiences are better left behind in a corner of our memory which has no control over our tomorrow. Perhaps it is a…
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One Dream Closer
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Friends, First, I must apologize for such a long absence–not that I am disillusioned that my silence affected your life, but it did mine, I miss writing. Regardless, let’s play catch up. The last three years has been consumed with pursuing a dream: the law. My passion for the law began long before my passion…
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Overcome Loss
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in comeback, decisions, dedication, dreams, failure, God’s plan, hope, LeslieRae, LeslieRae decisions, loss, love, success, worryPain grips dreams and hopes until the life is gone and the only thing that is left is a memory of what could have been. I don’t always make good decisions, but I make the best ones I can, and I live with each. Regret lurks around every corner beckoning be back, beckoning blame, beckoning…
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The Info You Need to Read to Believe
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in competing, diet, fitness, healthy food, LeslieRae, loss, training, vitamins, weight loss, workoutEveryone is looking for the secret to the perfect body. We all want to know the key. Sometimes that key (or one of them) is perpetrated by friends and loved ones, but we dismiss it because “what do they know”. There are a few tips that we should all adhere to regardless of the method…
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Road Blocks: Learning How to Bend
Life offers a series of twists and turns that seem unrelated and like directionless road blocks. It never fails, when everything is going great, something happens to ripple the calm waters. We often blame the moment on “it figures” or “this is my luck” type references. But the truth is, not many people experience many…
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Weighing in for a New Start
Taking your life seriously means taking all aspects of it with pride, the inside and the outside. An education and what you know is very important, it will keep you in the door, but what gets you through the door is who you know AND what you look like, not just on paper. The visual…
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3/06/10 Today I lost a father. Not by legal terms, but by life terms. I lost a man I respected and loved. A man who treated me like one of his daughters, with firmness and love. A man who displayed compassion and authority in moments of teaching. He taught me accountability and the value of…