2024 in the Rear View Mirror! 3 Life Lessons Learned
After a daunting year, I’m sharing three lessons to help you weather life-challenging storms.
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After a daunting year, I’m sharing three lessons to help you weather life-challenging storms.
2024 in the Rear View Mirror! 3 Life Lessons Learned Read More »
I’m happy to report that in July I recognized 20 years since the cancer misdiagnosis that caused me to change careers to begin working with all of you. And what a wonderful 20 years it has been! What I didn’t anticipate was
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Back in the ’80s I started my first business. I was doing “desktop publishing” in those days. I marketed my services by calling on businesses and printing companies who hired me to do design and layout work for their marketing
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My daughter, Rebecca (Becca) Simpkins passed away February 4, 2024. She was only 47, but she lived a life in the first 37 of her years that many of us might wish WE had led. However, no matter how magical
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I don’t know about you, but each time I turn on the TV, or access my news feed on my devices, I see another article about losing weight, getting stronger, exercising, etc… all fitness tips for my body. It’s the
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It’s December! On the heals of “How did that happen? Isn’t it still July?” we realize that it might be wise to do some clean up for this year and planning for next. To outline this post for you, I
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(Not sure what CHCAO is? See below*…) Health care and patient advocates convened in September for a conference about – advocacy! I did not attend, but am told that those who did felt well served by the many speakers, topics,
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Readers who know me know that my daughter is very sick, and that I’m balancing my work on advocates’ behalf with being her advocate, too. For the last five months, we’ve been dealing with hiccups in her major health/medical issues.
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