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How To Get A First Date: Be Shiny

by Ellen on May 16, 2012

Lani Klaphaak

Guest post by Lani Klaphaak, relationship coach. There’s an age-old saying that goes something like this:  All you need to get a date is a date.  Since that’s quite a catch-22, let’s break it down.  So what does having a date do for you that gives you the special sauce to get another date? When [...]

Aphid on rose

Spring. Gardens. Flowers. Weeds. It’s all there, those beautiful evenings you just want to sit outside until 3am, enjoying the refreshing breeze. The days you refuse to work because you just need to feel the grass on your toes. The garden you or someone you love has created, starting to really explode with color and [...]

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Spring flower

April showers have definitely brought in the May flowers, and they are more wild and beautiful than ever.   While I love noticing the new flowers on my walks with Huxley, I can’t help reflecting that April brought showers in more ways than the weather. My April felt blustery.  Unsettled.  Thunderstormy.  Lots of electricity in the [...]

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If You Can't Love Yourself

Can I get an amen? I have just finished devouring seasons 2-4 of RuPauls Drag Race (Season 1 is not available on Netflix, fail) and she has infused me with all sorts of sassy advice and catchy dance tunes.   In honor of the Season 4 finale with aired yesterday (I’m team anyone but Phi-Phi) I [...]

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Spring Fever

by Ellen on April 24, 2012

SPRING FEVER

The changing of the seasons brings a certain…restlessness with it.  Especially when it’s the exchange of winters cramped cold for the sun kissed shoulders of spring.   Below is a collection of all the articles that I’ve written inspiring your spring romance, ranging from dating differently to savoring the new (and unexpected!) to a little love [...]

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Dating Differently: an invitation

April 17, 2012
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Hey ladies and savvy gents, do you find yourself dating the same types of people, the same way, over and over again, expecting it to end differently? That one, wild hope that ‘this one might be different.’ I’ve got news for you – it’s not about them being different.  It’s about you. The definition of [...]

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What’s Your Better Bus?

April 10, 2012
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“Woke up, fell out of bed, Dragged a comb across my head Found my way downstairs and drank a cup, And looking up I noticed I was late. Found my coat and grabbed my hat Made the bus in seconds flat.” A Day In The Life by the Beatles always haunts me when I obviously [...]

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Remember You’re Still You or, Don’t Let Your Crazy Run The Show

April 3, 2012
Don't Let Fear Control You

Sounds strange, right? You’re still you. Well of course I am silly! Who else would I be? The voice in my head replies. (The voice in my head is an elderly British woman, I imagine her rapping me on the knuckles with her cane to make her point heard.) But here’s the thing, in the [...]

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MANIFESTO OF POSSIBILITY

March 27, 2012
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A visual manifesto. I created this visual manifesto because I really believe that anything is possible, you just need to uncork your awesome and go after it. What’s your manifesto of possibility? Help yourself to your own customizable copy by trading me your email address over to the right. Be inspired, always. Pin It

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The Art Of Decision Making

March 20, 2012
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In today’s world, anything is possible.  Yep.  Anything.  You can be anything you want, and you can do anything you can imagine. Let that reverberate for a moment.  Anything. Like space, it can go on forever into the distance.  I know I can feel lost in it at times. Since there are about a jillion [...]

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