When it comes to my own dreams, I am the queen of procrastination. I need deadlines and milestones to keep my dreams on track. I've had milestones on the calendar for a year - small, medium and large milestones all neatly set up. However, the infernal calendar keeps letting me know how quickly ...
While I am on vacation in the northwest, I am leaving you with something I wrote for you while I am away playing with my husband - Last month I had to deal with some dream setbacks. Girls, this can really get a dreamer down. But to stay down is not the Laurie you know - right? I mean, bi ...
This week we are featuring an email from one of our readers who requested assistance with her dream. It has been our plan on 8 Women Dream to further involve our readers (and other dreamers) in this process - and in our website here. I believe this email is a good place to start. It is m ...
Most comics have a few mom jokes but only one has made a career letting others laugh along with her regarding her loving, ever-vigil, almost always worrying cheerleading mom. Amy Borkowsky used to toss her filled answering machine tapes -- 99% packed with concerned messages from her mother -- i ...
Why is it when we most want to connect, we're apt to feel vulnerable and withdraw by putting up an emotional wall? If you are like me and dream of dating again after being off the dating market, then we need to take a look at our emotional walls - or the REAL reason we haven't been out on the dat ...
A few summers ago I started watching the Tour de France. Back then, I didn’t even realize how much I didn’t know about pro cycling. It looked like a bunch of riders who were out to cross the finish line first. It looked haphazard and unorganized, and quite frankly, I didn't get it. Aft ...
Welcome to July and National Ice Cream Month! The heat of summer comes and goes here in Northern California. Living close to the ocean has its perks along with thick, cold fog. But the warm days have officially started, and the office is finally hot enough to turn on the fans. The heat (and ...
Anne Jordan, screenwriter, editor, creative writing and screen writing instructor truly isn't aware of the positive impact she has made on so many. She has probably lost count of the vast number of people she has taught and mentored over the years. As we sat down for the second part of my inte ...
Everyone was kissing in the streets, and cheering, and dancing, and singing, "Olé, Olé, Olé, Olé . . . " and "¡VIVA ESPAÑA!¨ Fans had Spanish flags wrapped around their shoulders like capes, faces painted with stripes of red and yellow. I was wearing a red dress for "La Furia Roja," ju ...
I don't need no GP(fuc**in')S for driving. That's a Global Positioning System. I am on a three week road trip with my husband Tom. I forgot how incredibly fun this can be. O.K., road trips aren't necessarily a dream come true for me. I've done the hot, crying, barfing, when-are-we-gonn ...
I know you. I see you in my neighborhood. I see you at family functions. I see you in the grocery store. I see you when I buy coffee. I see you every time I step out my front door. You are the people who aren't living your dreams. And you're are not even trying anymore. Oh, you have ...
How many times on lunch breaks or over drinks had I listened to friends worry aloud about their moms getting older? One friend chewed her fingernails to nubs over her mother’s diminishing eyesight. Would her mother have to give up quilting? Then what? Another lamented Midwest winters a ...
Recently I accomplished the level of business success which allowed me to get a home for just me and my sweet animals. I was living at my business - now the two are separated. Along with this change came cleaning, painting and sifting through boxes and boxes of stuff. I did say boxes and b ...
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