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essentially_solo

I am a registered nurse, mother of two grown sons, and I am looking to learn to live for myself for a change.

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How did you get to where you are now?

Hard work, determination, strength.

How do you see yourself differently now than you did 10 years ago?

I am no longer the seeker, now I am the teacher.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

Blissfully retired, and doing only what I want to do.

a postcard to my younger self

Try to relax, life rushes by and you don't know what you are missing just trying to survive.  But good for you that you are surviving.

my role models

My mother, naturally, George Sands, and Sigourney Weaver, my favorite actress of all time.

my posts

bipolar disorder

Posted in health & fitness on June 13, 2010

Ok, at my advanced age, I am diagnosed with bipolar disorder.  Sort of threw me for a loop.  Anyone out there who is successfully dealing with this insanity?  I am taking meds,…

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making the right choices to remain healthy.

Posted in health & fitness on March 20, 2010

I wanted to share with all of you, that I made the necessary choices.  I was told I had type two diabetes, and that if I wanted to live, I had to…

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in the gospel of St Thomas….

Posted in spirituality on February 06, 2010

It is said he wrote that Jesus said that God is within us all, and in everything around us, that God cannot be contained in buildings of brick and mortar, thus no…

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the empty nest….

Posted in family & relationships on January 22, 2010

My sons are on their own at last, tho the youngest still has all his ‘stuff" here, he lives elsewhere and pays his own way.

Now what?  As a nurse and a…

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my comments

Response to: Most People do not love themselves, do you?

Comment posted on June 13, 2010 at 5:51 pm:
"perhaps because she got few answers.  I am learning to love myself, I am learning to see that I have worth and value, and I am beginning to like who I am becoming.  we, each of us, follow our own path to our own goals, and define ourselves ..." (read comment)

Response to: looking younger?

Comment posted on June 13, 2010 at 5:48 pm:
"settle, don't settle.... I gave up looking long ago.  My thought is that if I am intended to have a significant other, he can bloody well find me.  For now, I simply work on myself and my lfie and do not even attempt to go looking for someo..." (read comment)

Response to: under eye make up

Comment posted on June 13, 2010 at 5:40 pm:
"I use and love "well rested" by bare escentuals, takes away all the flaws and literally makes me look well rested...." (read comment)

Response to: loneliness pie

Comment posted on June 13, 2010 at 5:35 pm:
"lonely sucks, and I am in a similar position, in my case, I chose it.  I am going thru treatment for bipolar disorder, not discovered until I was 54... no wonder I could not maintain a normal relationship!!  At any rate, when I feel ready, ..." (read comment)

Response to: those high heels

Comment posted on June 13, 2010 at 5:30 pm:
"I feel sorry for all those young ladies who wear those stilts they ruin their ankles, nothing prettier in my opinion that a nice slender ankle, and what high heels do is enlarge the ligaments in the ankles, by the time you are forty, your ankles comp..." (read comment)