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Emotional Growth

Hello My Name Is…

by Karen Amster-Young

Did you read our update on the52weeks?  Check out what’s going on with the blog here. This is a guest post from Jami Kelly. She is happily single, lives in New York City and is continuously getting “unstuck” doing amazing, interesting things. Jami’s last post for the52weeks covered some big ideas for getting unstuck and [...]

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categoryPosted: 09/22/11 1:08 PM

Just Pick Up the Phone

by Pam Godwin

A sister is someone who knows everything about you and loves you anyway. – Author Unkown Last week I heard on the news that a woman was suing her sister and Duke University over a pair of college basketball tickets. “How could family members get to the point of suing one another for basketball tickets?,” [...]

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categoryPosted: 07/24/11 11:00 PM

What Makes a Difference

by Karen Amster-Young

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.  It’s not.  — Dr. Seuss I can’t stop thinking about Lauren Spierer,  the young woman  from Westchester who has been missing since June 3rd.   As  the days and weeks pass, hope seems to fade.  For whatever reason, her disappearance haunts [...]

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categoryPosted: 07/6/11 1:15 PM

I am in the process of moving. While my family is excited about this next chapter and the new possibilities that await us, we are going tentatively, with many, many mixed emotions. I have been thinking about how many memories and emotions are tied up in all of this.  And one such big memory is [...]

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categoryPosted: 06/20/11 12:49 PM

Lose the Clutter, Find Your Life?

by Pam Godwin

This is a guest post by Barbara Hannah Grufferman.  She is the author of  the hugely popular book, The Best of Everything After 50: The Experts’ Guide to Style, Sex, Health, Money and More.  The 52 Weeks is all about trying new things, facing challenges and moving forward; it’s about crossing things off your to-do [...]

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categoryPosted: 05/18/11 8:46 PM

com mit ment

by Pam Godwin

“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.” -Winnie-the-Pooh (and A.A. Milne) I looked up the word commitment the other day. It is defined as the act of committing, the state of begin committed; a pledge or undertaking; applying or engaging oneself. There are many kinds of commitments – for work, family, relationships [...]

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categoryPosted: 01/26/11 6:28 PM

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

by Karen Amster-Young

“It’s not you, it’s me…” “You’re giving me the ‘It’s not you, it’s me’ routine? I invented ‘It’s not you, it’s me.’ Nobody tells me it’s them, not me. If it’s anybody, it’s me.” George, Seinfeld It’s over.   I just can’t continue with you on a daily basis – even a weekly basis anymore, at [...]

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categoryPosted: 01/20/11 11:33 AM

Motivation Mindset

by Pam Godwin

Cheers to a new year and another chance to get it right. – Oprah Winfrey It’s the beginning of a new year and time for that yearly ritual when many of us size things up, make resolutions, throw out the “old ways”, promise to bring in “the new” and start all over again. Don’t worry, [...]

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categoryPosted: 01/13/11 11:47 PM

Finding My Religion

by Karen Amster-Young

My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once. – Richard Lewis Last week my father-in-law died.  It was so sudden that I need to create a new word to describe it. One minute we were lighting the Chanukah candles on the East Coast and the next minute we [...]

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categoryPosted: 12/9/10 11:56 AM

Soaring on Long Island

by Karen Amster-Young

This is our first guest post!  The following post was written by R. Sanders.  Our blog inspired her to go gliding for the first time as she faced the possible dissolution of her 25-year marriage.  This blog is all about trying new things, facing fears, shaking it up. I don’t think it gets any braver [...]

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categoryPosted: 11/25/10 9:39 PM