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Posts Tagged ‘new year

Hello, Goodbye

Posted by: dateacher on: January 1, 2009

You say goodbye, and I say hello…

Here’s hoping that 2009 will be a good year, as we walk in to this new year together…reflection on 2008 seems trite but…2008 you were a good year.  It was the year I finally found what I was looking for…I began a job that I can honestly say is [...]

Clutter Cleaning

Posted by: dateacher on: December 31, 2008

Not gutter cleaning – clutter cleaning.  How do we accumulate so much stuff?  And why are we so attached to our stuff? 
This is another new year’s resolution I have made often and not kept – really cleaning out my house.  I have a friend who said after she and her husband moved from the home [...]

Rethinking the Resolution

Posted by: dateacher on: December 30, 2008

Third in a series…
In a previous post in this series, I talked about preparing for the new year and how I do not make resolutions because I eventually end up breaking them.  Instead, I focus on what went right and try to continue on that path…while trying to change what went wrong.  Sometimes this means [...]

All those diet ads…

Posted by: dateacher on: December 29, 2008

Second in the series….
UGH!  It’s only December 29 and I am already SICK & TIRED of all the diet ads that hound us on TV the few days before New Year’s.   Slim Fast, Jenny Craig, and Nutrisystem…oh my! 
I understand the inability to resist certain foods.  Really I do…at one point in my life I tipped [...]