Motherhood the No Manual Life
So Mother’s Day is coming up and we as moms will be thanked for all the things that we do. But I need to take a pause on the things that we as mom get, the no manual life. There…
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Crushed the Broad Street Run
So I am going to break down my personal run. This run attracts over 40,000 runners and is the biggest thus far. 10 miles all the way down Broad Street! However the same way I trained which is my pace,…
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Ask Toi: Was I Wrong for calling my husband a child?!
Yes. For my readers women all over call their husband an “extra child.” However that shouldn’t be a serious conversation and not in front of other people. This wife made a scene at a restaurant and then called him a…
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Monday Motivation: Count you blessings
Today is April 30th. That means that the end of the month is here and we are about to step into a new month. Often times we judge ourselves on what others have done in comparison to what we have…
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Ask Toi: How Do you Tell your Friends to Watch their tone with you?
You have to just tell them. This notion of allowing folks in the name of friendship speak to you anyway suggests that you are keeping them even in an unhealthy state just to keep them around. That’s the same notion…
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Real Love: Friendship Edition
So I have been documenting my journey during various stints of my life. I have talked extensively about moving to Philadelphia from Lancaster and how hard it was for me to adjust to life in general. I STRUGGLED. There were…
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Monday Reset
Good Monday morning. I know its hard to start your week off right on days when you don’t feel you are at your best. Today is one of those super soaker rainy days when all you want to do is…
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One year down… weight loss-chronicles
Welp a year has come. I have managed to keep my weight off and in addition I’ve managed to fight through the ups and downs along the journey. I’ve lost around 70 pounds to date but it wasn’t easy having…
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Off Days
I know we all have them. The moments when things don’t line up just right. The laundry you thought you had gotten out of the dryer is still in there, wet because you forgot to turn it on. The days…
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Monday; New Challenge
So it’s a start of a new week and now a new month. Now that Easter is over which also means Lent is over, I want to propose a new challenge. The challenge is to stop negative self talk. This…