Tag: Kindness

• WOMEN: How to Use Our Voices

  Women’s voices are silenced, dismissed, discounted, questioned, and not believed.  Our contributions to history and accomplishments are erased.  We are often the exception to the rule, and almost never the majority.  It’s no wonder that to be heard, we feel we need to shout at the top of our lungs.  If you want a great…

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  August 22, 2025

  Opinion

  Compassion, Equality, Family, Fundamental rights, Girls, Hear, Kindness, Life, Listen, Love, Mental Health, Respect, Support, Understanding, Voice, Woman, Women, writing

• Around the World, Part 3

  To read Parts 1 and 2, see the previous posts. There is so much to tell, but I’ll focus on some of the most notable and meaningful experiences from our Around the World by Private Jet with National Geographic Expeditions. PERU We stayed in Cusco and our hotel there was amazing!  Because Cusco is over 11,000…

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  May 16, 2025

  Experience, Reflection, Travel

  Angkor Wat, Around The World, Compassion, Diplomacy, Expedition, Great Barrier Reef, Humanitarian, International Travel, jordan, Journey, Kindness, Machu Picchu, middle-east, morocco, National Geographic, Petra, Taj Mahal, Tiger’s Nest, Travel, World Travel

• Your Worst Day

  When was your last bad day? I mean really bad, full of despair, ugly-cry bad day? Mine was February 5, 2018. Nine days before (January 27) I had surgery to fix a recently broken ankle and a torn ligament. I was spending six weeks of non weight-bearing recovery in Seattle (to be closer to the…

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  September 3, 2018

  Experience, Opinion

  Blessing, Compassion, Fortunate, Giving, Inspiration, Kindness, Life, Struggle, Thankful, Worst Day

• Friendship

  Have you ever lost a friend but didn’t know why?  You just wake up one day and realize they are no longer in your life.  From a decision not of your making.  For no reason, from no incident, or misunderstanding, or fight; nothing you can recall.   Some time ago, two female friends vanished from…

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  May 28, 2018

  Experience, Opinion

  Batman, Broken Ankle, Care, Comicon, Compassion, Friends, Friendship, Kindness, Loss, Love, Seattle, Selfless, Surgery, Thoughtfulness, Wonder Woman