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Archive for the ‘Friendship’ Category

The Top 5 Regrets

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

By Guest Blogger Bronnie Ware

For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives.

People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learned never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal.

Each experienced a variety of emotions, as expected, denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually acceptance. Every single patient found their peace before they departed though, every one of them.

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Today Is ‘National Hug A Blogger Day!’ #HugABlogger

Monday, November 7th, 2011

In case you didn’t know, blogging can be quite isolating. If I’m not traveling for speaking engagements (where thankfully I actually INTERACT with other human beings), or at events, at the radio station, or coaching, I’m literally alone. Alone at home, or alone with my computer at Starbucks. Writing can sometimes be a lonely life.  There’s no flagship location where all the bloggers can come, and work together. We are virtual, online friends separated by city, state, province, country, and continent. And with the exception of a few incredible blogging conferences, I just don’t get to see these amazing women often enough. I’ve been at this new gig for two years now, and I can honestly say, I am right where I was meant to be. I am in the flow. I am in the groove. I have unlocked the PASSION badge at Foursquare (if you’re a social media maven, that would make sense to you).

So to honor these relationships, a great blogging contemporary of mine Vera Sweeney named today as NATIONAL HUG A BLOGGER DAY. It’s the day where you hug a blogger (yes, my kids hugged me this morning), and where we bloggers virtually hug all our blogging friends, and post pictures of ourselves, with them, hugging (or not).

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Wordless Wednesday

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

So, I finally did it. I attended my first “Tweet Up!” What is a Tweet Up, you might ask? A Tweet Up is when the people you have connected with on Twitter, actually MEET UP! Like, in real life.

Who knew that in my backyard of Montreal, lived such incredible, dynamic and lovely women. We met last night at 5:30 for drinks.  But drinks turned into dinner, and before you knew it, we were a group of about 10 women, chatting for hours. About everything.

Again, when things like this happen, I thank my dad for teaching me to always remain open in life. To always learn from the people you meet. And to always, think outside the box.

The Girls

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A Hump Day Chuckle

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

No Wordless Wednesday today. No Wisdom Wednesday today. Instead, let’s laugh together, shall we? :)

Two little old ladies, Dorace & Jackie were sitting on a park bench outside the local town hall where a flower show was in progress.

The short one, Jackie leaned over and said, “Life is so boring. We never have any fun any more. For $10.00 I’d take my clothes off and streak through that stupid, boring flower show!”

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Friendship and The People You Meet

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

I can count on five hands, NOT fingers, how many friends I have. Yes, I thankfully have a lot of nice friends, and they run in many different circles. So much so, that when it’s my birthday, we’re either a ton of people, or I opt to do absolutely nothing, since I never know where or whom to cut.

I have friends that we socialize with as married couples, I have friends separate from my husband, I have divorced friends, unmarried friends, all sorts of girlfriends. I always have, and I know where it stems from.  I grew up an only child, and always compensated for that sibling loneliness by surrounding myself with a lot of friends.

However, with all these incredible women in my life, I can only count on ONE hand, my truest of the true friends. Friends I could call at 3am if I were in real trouble, and they would give me the shirt off their back, the food from their mouth, the shoes on their feet.

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Your Birthday Wishes

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

You truly are like my second family. Hoping for another 36 good ones! ;)

xoxEDxox

International Women’s Day 100th Anniversary

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Today is an amazing day for women around the world. Today is OUR day. The day where we make noise, where we fight for our rights as women– to end hunger, end poverty, end domestic violence, fight for gender equality and rally around each other as women. Today is the 100th anniversary of this kinda day.

In thinking how I would honor it, I had a few ideas. But in the end, the ordinary woman won out.  Today, at Women On The Fence, we are honoring ordinary women who have done extraordinary things. Five remarkable women, all with different reasons for making it the list.

Here are their stories, and what they teach us all.

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