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Gifts of Love

Posted on January 26, 2023January 28, 2023 by paintogain_qqhjp8

What is the greatest gift you have ever received?  For me it was the gift of a child through adoption. Other than an organ donation, it’s hard to imagine a greater gift. How can you possibly top that?  A few years later, my son’s birth mom donated a kidney to Continue Reading

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A Christmas Truce

Posted on December 9, 2022December 11, 2022 by paintogain_qqhjp8

Have you heard of the Christmas Truce of December, 1914? This had to be one of the most bizarre war-time stories to emerge in wartime.  It has been documented in soldier diaries, on camera, and in movies and books. Prince William recently dedicated a memorial in the location where this Continue Reading

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Water: An Instant Fuel Pack

Posted on December 6, 2022December 6, 2022 by paintogain_qqhjp8

Which health goal do you hope to finally conquer in the new year? Mine is to hydrate more. We’ve all heard the recommendation of drinking eight glasses of water a day. After once suffering an acute kidney trauma, and later landing in the ER hooked up to an intravenous pole, Continue Reading

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Teen and Tween Travails

Posted on July 8, 2022July 12, 2022 by paintogain_qqhjp8

During my husband’s late-morning computer class, chatter unexpectedly drifted towards mental health one day. One of his students mentioned the food served in the ‘mental hospital.’ “Were you a visitor there?” a fellow classmate asked her. “No, I was a patient,” she replied. Upon seeing their puzzled face, she added: Continue Reading

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Beyond Counting Sheep

Posted on February 27, 2022February 27, 2022 by paintogain_qqhjp8

Who has trouble staying or falling asleep? Since the pandemic, I’ve heard of more and more people struggling with shut eye.  I feel your pain. In this article, I hope to outline strategies- beyond counting sheep – to hopefully demystify this activity and erase some of the dread you may Continue Reading

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She’s Going to Blow!

Posted on November 10, 2021December 17, 2021 by paintogain_qqhjp8

Are You going to Blow? What makes you blow a fuse? Do you burn slowly or erupt quickly? When author Julie Barnhill wrote a book for moms about anger, She’s Going to Blow, she wondered if anyone would want to read it. After a local radio station featured her book, Continue Reading

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The Circle of Mentoring

Posted on February 16, 2021February 20, 2021 by paintogain_qqhjp8

Who has been a mentor in your life, and who have you mentored? In this post, I hope to show you how the mentee-mentor relationship is a fluid one. Mentors and mentees help each other to become their best selves. Consistency Take Helen from Toronto, Ontario for example. She invested Continue Reading

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Where Does Your Light Come From?

Posted on October 30, 2020February 19, 2021 by paintogain_qqhjp8

When record-breaking fires recently draped the Bay Area in a layer of yellow-gray ash or an apocalyptic orange glow, I often fixated on light. I would peer outside to check the latest color hue and reminisce about my latest nature outing. Each temporary reprieve in the winds would have to Continue Reading

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Collective Suffering

Posted on April 22, 2020February 16, 2021 by paintogain_qqhjp8

How the world has changed since my last post. Little did I know, when I completed my previous entry, that I would soon receive a front row seat on grief. And now, people the world over are dealing with some form of loss. A Life-Changing Text On the last Friday Continue Reading

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