We know it’s been a bit quiet. Over a year has passed since we conceived the52weeks.com and we are still working hard to get “unstuck” and checking things off our to-do list! We quickly realized that doing something (even something small) and writing about it weekly was much easier said than done! But our concept […]
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Posted: 09/20/11 11:12 PM
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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Posted: 07/24/11 11:00 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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Posted: 06/20/11 12:49 PM
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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Posted: 05/18/11 8:46 PM
“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-three today and we don’t know where the hell she is.”~ Ellen DeGeneres There is a nature preserve and a trail beyond the backyard and past the deer fence of my weekend getaway house. I look out the kitchen window every time […]
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Posted: 04/20/11 11:40 PM
Life is like a game of poker: if you don’t put any in the pot, there won’t be any to take out. – Jackie ”Moms” Mabley, comedian A dark smoky room filled with men, the muffled sound of chips hitting the felt table, and silent tension hanging in the air is what one usually imagines. […]
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Posted: 03/22/11 9:58 AM
“There’s one thing that’s really great about waking up early, and it’s not jogging or greeting the day. It’s just that that’s when they make doughnuts.” – Kathy Griffin, comedian Some people are, by nature, early risers: best work done before 9am. Me – not so much… I am generally not what you would call […]
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Posted: 02/17/11 9:45 PM
“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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Posted: 01/26/11 6:28 PM
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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Posted: 01/13/11 11:47 PM
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” – Miss Piggy It’s ironic how you can set out to do one thing and it can take you in an entirely different direction. Sometimes things change course […]
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Posted: 12/21/10 1:07 PM