One-Word Theme for 2012: Up
The ultimate optimistic word, UP will guide me through this year’s challenges and opportunities. Plus it’s the Year of the Dragon, and I happen to be a dragon. Whee! What’s your one-word theme for 2012?
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Finding Love, Peace, and Joy During the Holidays
My Christmas wishes for you this season include finding love, peace, and joy — and much more.
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Meeting Disappointment with Friends, Gratitude, and Apple Pie
I’m grateful this Thanksgiving for another opportunity to learn from disappointment, to appreciate my friends around the world, and to celebrate another day in a place I love with the man I love (who also happens to make a mean pizza).
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What’s Luck Got to Do With It?
We all have good and bad luck, but that’s not what defines us. How we handle good as well as bad luck is who we are.
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Living Deliberately: When Your Loved Ones Don’t Get It
People who only offer conditional love can suck the energy, inspiration, and dreams right the hell out of you if you let them. So don’t.
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Michelle Kaminsky is an American attorney-turned-freelance writer who lived in her family's ancestral village in Calabria, Italy for 15 years. This blog is now archived.
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