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Roxanne’s Reflections

After writing a column for my small town newspaper for 6 years, I want to continue sharing my reflections on life’s lessons through metaphors and analogies that are realistic and relatable.

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What are you counting: the good or the difficult?
  • Roxanne
  • April 21, 2024April 21, 2024

What are you counting: the good or the difficult?

This is an important truth of which to be reminded. There is goodness and mercy available to us all the days of our lives. It’s all about the perspective we have and whether we are counting the g

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Did anyone notice? You’re not alone in your struggle.
  • Roxanne
  • April 4, 2024April 4, 2024
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Did anyone notice? You’re not alone in your struggle.

I haven’t written in a while. No blogs have been posted this past month. Did anyone notice I was gone? When someone is struggling, I think this is a common type of question. A person may ask if w

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Do you ever think, “This is too hard, I quit!”?
  • Roxanne
  • March 9, 2024March 9, 2024
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Do you ever think, “This is too hard, I quit!”?

This blog is being written later than usual because I felt like I didn’t have anything positive to share. Hiding, disengaging, and running away felt safer, easier and more appealing.

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Be open to wild grown love
  • Roxanne
  • February 17, 2024February 17, 2024
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Be open to wild grown love

I planted a wild flower garden last summer. It was exotic and beautiful. It was wild and unruly.

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Being alone can be scary but empowering.
  • Roxanne
  • February 9, 2024February 9, 2024
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Being alone can be scary but empowering.

Someone once told me that I am the only one with me when I am born and when I die. No one can experience my entry into or my exit from life except me. I know my parents were there when I was born a

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Posture and Mindset Matter
  • Roxanne
  • January 11, 2024January 11, 2024
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Posture and Mindset Matter

My son reminded me that the posture and the mindset is important. When doing a squat, he told me to look up and to think about “exploding upward.” Trust me, there was no exploding happening wit

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No one has ever died from a snake bite
  • Roxanne
  • December 6, 2023December 7, 2023
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No one has ever died from a snake bite

I have never been bitten by a snake. I am not scared of snakes, but I definitely startle when I see one even though one has never bitten me.

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I took the hard, scary leap!
  • Roxanne
  • November 29, 2023November 29, 2023
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I took the hard, scary leap!

My son said to me, “If it isn’t scary, then you aren’t living.” He said this to ME, the one who has skydived, jumped into a blue hole at the base of a waterfall, and leaped from the tallest

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