The Resolute Woman

Category: change

  • You can’t control everything

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    I prefer to be organized, in control. That tendency can be a great strength. It also can be a weakness. For me, spending weeks in a wheelchair or moving with a walker because of my broken leg has been a good reminder that I can’t control everything. Even laundry. “Please don’t put my bras in…

  • It’s time for resolutions

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    As you may remember, Fayteen and I think it’s best to wait until after the hurry of the holidays to make resolutions for the new year. However, now that it’s almost February, we’re going to be Resolute Women and make some goals for 2015.In the next few blog posts, we’re going to share some tips…

  • Changing a bad habit

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    Now when I wake up, I make myself a cup of English Breakfast tea—and drink it without artificial sweetener. During the day, I drink water—plain from the tap or sparkling—instead of diet soft drinks. When I think about my favorite drink—diet Sunkist, I remember that I am determined—Resolute!—to change a bad habit. I have survived…

  • I’m doing it

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    As I explained in a recent blog post, I am no longer drinking diet soft drinks or putting artificial sweetener in my tea. It might not seem like a big deal to you. But, it is a big deal to me. I have a tendency to be addicted to food—and to drinks—diet Pepsi for a…

  • A day at James and Jeany’s farm

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    My brother James just broke a chicken’s neck. He killed it, and now he’s plucking its feathers. My sister-in-law Jeany is working at the Los Lunas community garden. Yesterday I helped Jeany and her friend Suzanne make salsa using tomatoes, onions and green peppers from Jeany’s garden and garlic from the community garden. We canned…

  • Making an October resolution

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    For a decade now, I’ve been counting Weight Watcher points—which means a limited number of French Fries and chocolate candy. And, for a year or so, I’ve been counting carbohydrates because I’m pre-diabetic—which means no orange juice for breakfast. Now, I’m giving up diet soft drinks and artificial sweetener in my tea—because the latest research…

  • Self helpless

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    “Self helpless. You’re always one perfect advice book away from a much better you.” That’s the great headline and subhead for Kristin van Ogtrop’s essay in the July 21, 2014, issue of Time magazine. The editor of Real Simple magazine, van Ogrop confirms a message that Fayteen and I agree with completely. “Everyone wants to…

  • The struggles of a lifetime

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    Sometimes when I need inspiration, I find it. Why do I keep fighting the same battles? Why do I have to constantly remind myself that I really do want to eat vegetables instead of chocolate, that sometimes I talk too much, that feeling depressed doesn’t solve my problems? When I flipped through a book by…

  • Begin anywhere along the way

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    I’ve been thinking about Barbara Scheiber’s novel We’ll Go to Coney Island because, just like the characters in the book, I’ve been feeling stuck—stuck in a swamp of old feelings of depression, old feelings that make me want to eat chocolate, old feelings that make me want me to give up and stay stuck. And,…

  • Continuing to begin

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    Rachel, finally, realizes how her marriage has been colored by the hurt and disappointment of her parents’ marriage. She had merged her husband with the image of her father—“that image of abandonment and betrayal,” explains Barbara Scheiber in her novel We’ll Go to Coney Island. At last, however, Rachel’s insight helped her to get unstuck,…