Do you know what happens when a painfully shy kid who was picked on grows up and acquires the tools to fight back? You get an advocate who feels a moral imperative to stick up for what is right. You get someone who rallies against bullying when she sees it. You get someone who isn't afraid to stick [...]
Tag: understanding of self
Speak even when you aren’t spoken to…
Freedom to speak one's mind - it is a luxury that many do not have. You may remember that line from the Lewis Carroll classic novel Alice in Wonderland, wherein the Queen snapped at Alice, "Speak when you are spoken to!" Of course Alice, in her logical way argued the reasonableness of the Queen's request (that Alice [...]
Day-in and day-out.
If you have just stumbled upon The New Forty you may not have yet realized that this is a daily blog. By that I mean that every day since my first day of blogging here on Area Voices I have created a blog post. Today marks day eight hundred and eighty-two of The New Forty. [...]
I’ll be dancing…
"I will dare to just do what I do. Be just what I am. And dance whenever I want to." ~ Beverly Williams This is day two of being moxie-liscious and the quotation I share above illustrates my appreciation of the limits I feel on my life...none, nada, zippo, zilch. I am living this [...]
I don’t want to be anything other than me
I have a new favorite mantra...it comes from Gavin DeGraw's song - I Don't Want To Be. I don't totally subscribe to all the words in the song, but the lines that resonate with me are: "I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately All I have to [...]
“Willful girl”
I was commenting on Facebook the other day about the fact that someone told me that I was a "willful girl". Now - I realize that there are folks who might be offended if they were labeled as such (be it the label "willful" or the designation "girl"), but I don't mind it at all. [...]
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