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I think, therefore I am on the Verge! Founder of WomenontheVerge.net
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Soul Spelunker, Spiritual Guide. Author of award winning books about who you really Are and your relationship to scary things in the world like money. It's not a book to 'read' it's a book to 'do' based upon a new foundation of Being
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Learning about life and spirituality from nature and those around us. To be open to change, learning and growth.
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My blog is about my life, likes, loves, friendships, poetry and other writing. I am also a feminist and women's issues activist.
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Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction
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Not always pretty, not always polite, but always political, even when I don't mean to be.
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I am asking that as a question, because I am going to tell you the way that I do, however, I am no expert, so I am also curious about how you do it, too.
During this month's Spa for the Soul, Judy K
2 days ago
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Books, Health, Super Power, Self
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mom, change, life, power, book, author
Many people now are reinventing themselves after 50. Although I am only 49 (but so close to 50!), I feel that my life has gone in a totally different direction. I have had some of the best jobs that a
3 days ago
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Lifestyle
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COMPASSION, KINDNESS, CARING, WONDER WOMAN, SUPER POWERS, MAGIC
Years ago I had a part time job as a magician’s assistant. During the final act I went into a box and was cut into three pieces. After being put back together, magically I was transformed into Wonde
4 days ago
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Lifestyle
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DEATH, CRUELTY, SUPER POWERS, FAMILY, LIES, MANIPULATION, LOSS, GROWTH
As many of you know my oldest sister is near death. She has bowel and colon cancer and was taken off her nutrients a little over fifty days ago. The nutrients were feeding her cancer and not her. Si
I was reading Terry's post this morning and started replying to it when it hit me. The theme this month is super powers. Like Ana, I shy away from compliments. I mean, super powers? Me?
Then I realis
11 days ago
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poetry
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blogging, child abuse, cruelty, healing, letting go, poetry, women
This is the last time I will tell this story.
I need my mother’s love.
I knew this all of my life and It is still true today.
I need my mother’s love.
She was beautiful and I would have told h
17 days ago
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Super Powers
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women on the verge, super power, discovery, sisterhood, support, kindness, appreciation
Why is it so easy to look at the people around me and so easily see their super power, while at the same time, I am challenged to see my own?
No matter how many times someone tells me that I am wo
18 days ago
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Health
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healing, super powers, inspirational, child abuse, depression, healing, women, mental health, stockholm syndrome, systemic abuse, women on the verge
Slashing became a part of my life at 21. Shocking behavior, some might think, but not so to me. I'd been two decades in a severely-dysfunctional family and I could only guess at what healthy was. Cu
18 days ago
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Lifestyle
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womenontheverge, believing, dignity, healing, memoir, mental health, respect, speaking out, survivors, trauma, women, true story
I am reprinting several articles I wrote in the late 80s and early 90s. All of these are true stories. In fact, the things that happened to me, chose my life's mission--to fight against all kinds of v
19 days ago
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women
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child abuse, confronting perpetrators, fighting back, healing, rape, rapists, strong language, warning, women on the verge, women
All names are changed to protect the guilty. This was a second gang rape.
Dear Tom,
I’m sure you remember me. We both lived in the same town at one time and you and I were in the same grade s
or, really thinking inside the box. I moved recently & at the same time downsized which is a very poetic way of saying I was forced to get rid of my junk. I believe junk falls into 3 categories
21 days ago
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women
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child abuse, courage, criminal justice, fighting back, sexual abuse, trauma, women, womenontheverge
A year ago I wrote a story on my use of anti-depressant drugs and my experiences in the mental health system.
My subsequent choice against anti-depressants has led me into a different arena–the crim
Sometimes, Putting one Foot in Front of the Other is the Hardest PartWhether you are 18 or 80, you can be faced with a moment when you need to re-invent yourself like Danita did. Our childhood experie
25 days ago
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Entertainment Blogs
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funny, entertainment, etiquette, social niceties, politeness, Paranoia, poetry, women
What do you want? What is it you want? As your amethyst eyes Slither over my face Paw my neckline Denting my nonchalance My demeanour so cool – You’d swear I drank milk.
What do you want? What i
At the beginning of this month of laughter and letting our inner fool out. I went to Judy Kinney’s Spa for the Soul. It was a wonderful experience and in many ways I learned much. One of the most im
30 days ago
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Entertainment Blogs
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aging, funny, humor, Jenny Joseph, poet, poetry, Warning, women
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me,
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for
Trash tv, just what the doctor ordered.
Well, I'm not a fan of television, but...
What do you do you do when you have no energy?
I want to get up and do but there's no vava voom.
So what then?
Anywa
I really thought when I saw the link to this article I would agree with it. I do, in some ways. Unfortunately the woman who wrote is so focused on her lost dream of being a mother she ends up critic
32 days ago
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Health
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MS, multiple sclerosis, cancer, triple-negative breast cancer, TNBC
Last year I was fighting for my life. This year I'm celebrating life by walking to raise funds for the National MS Society.
You see, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2004. My husba
I hope you will stop by my blog,honeylazar.blogspot.com, and meet Aunt Ruth.
Six years ago, I asked Aunt Ruth if I could photograph her for a book. I have no idea where the notion of "book" came fr
I would like to thank you all of you, readers, friends everywhere and friends on Facebook, Twitter and of course Women on the Verge.
Thank you so much for your kindness and your support.
I’m so touch
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