I was so honored to have my article published in the March/April 2018 issue of The Desert Shamrock Magazine. Thank you for allowing me to share the article with you. Here is the full copy of the magazine just in case you want to read more from our local Celtic community… https://issuu.com/desertshamrock/docs/desert_shamrock_mar-apr_2018_e-maga
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Write with abandon, but don’t forget the very last step in authorship, and it involves being kind to your audience: Edit. Grammar has always been boring for most of us, yet when applied correctly (a lot like applying make-up), it disappears. And what’s left? Engagement with your phenomenal ideas. After all, isn’t that what you
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YOU ARE ALWAYS ON THE CLOCK. You were born at a certain moment in time, and time moves you along just like a merry-go-round—without your help and whether you like it or not. You can’t speed it up or slow it down. Here’s a question: If you had to select one age you think is
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Great art is creative and free, yet seven elements are present in each piece. At any age, your life is also a work of art, and in order to understand what that means, let’s look at it through the lens of these seven art elements. LINE A line is a narrow mark that is longer
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Dear Beauty, How do you feel about your age? It’s really fun to look at age from a philosophical, far away, pie-in-the-sky, exalted perspective—but when your own birthday approaches, the reality of age can be an emotionally challenging event. Movies have a way of showing us reality. A few weeks ago we watched an old
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Dear amazing woman, So what is the the PERECT age?  If you’re 10, you have unlimited possibilities ahead of you. If you’re 90, you have no worries. At 20, living on your own is adventure packed, yet at 70, a host of life-long friends support you. Maybe it all depends upon the individual woman and how
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Dear Beauty, Years ago, when we were having a bad day, Grandma would say, “Well, the first 100 years are the worst.†And then she’d laugh to assure us that better times were coming. When I planned this series, I wanted to celebrate a woman who had actually lived those 100 years. Even though the 2010 census tells us that
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Dear resilient woman, Last night, my brother, Dr. Len Whalen who lives in Florida, called me about our series on age. As an avid supporter of the Whalen Voices blog, he made an interesting observation about people in general, inspired by the inspiring women we’ve been featuring this summer. He said that there seems to be two types of people
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Dear wonderful woman, The years speed by, just like this journey we’ve been on, celebrating women who are turning a new decade. I hope you are able to catch glimpses of your own life as reflected in the lives of these gracious women. Looking back, when I was 15, I wondered if I would ever
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