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#StandTallandStrong

#STS Is about raising our heads, facing the day, with strength, with our shoulders back, ready, capable, willing and able. This motto has weaved its way throughout my life for the last 13 years. Inspired by an incident where I was doing everything opposite of these notions and words for years. I realized in this

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Oh Can-a-da! (And then…)

We rolled into Canada straight off the heels of Highway 101 where our first moment of awe occurred at Ruby Beach, right during sunset, no map in hand. Then the next day we saw the crystal clear waters of Lake Crescent. Then we hopped the Black Ball Ferry named COHO in Port Angeles, WA to

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VoiceCatcher: Rotten Eggs

Hi Friends! One of my creative non-fiction pieces titled Rotten Eggs has been selected to be featured in the Spring 2018 Issue for online literary magazine VoiceCatcher!   I spent several months working on the piece intermittently with my coach/editor and then went through several other rounds of revision with an assigned editor from VoiceCatcher. Pretty

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The Four One One on the Process of Grief in my Life

By Lara Foster Four Eleven never escapes me. When we planned to go to Hawaii in April (Strawberry Mango Lemonade is a recap) I didn’t even realize we’d be on the island for 4/11. Weeks later, looking at the dates on the calendar, the numbers struck out 4-1-1… Exhaling slowly with acknowledgment the truth settled

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Strawberry Mango Lemonade

Oahu is majestic from the air. Sounds of Hawaiians from earlier days travel through my ears fishing, foraging, swimming, surfing and enjoying life together. The lush green landscape still over powers the expansion of 21st century homes and buildings. I come from a quaint town in Oregon. Even when I travel small, cozy, creative villages

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Life: Is This Destiny or Is This Fate?

Sometimes going backwards is the only way I can find myself enough to get footing to take a step forwards. I’ve gone back into old relationships. I’ve gone back to old childhood dreams to try to make them come true. I’ve gone back on my own word to find brighter days. And I’ve gone back

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8/8/2017 – 5 years of a Spiritual Partnership

I never thought I’d have a partner who would SEE me. And I mean really See Me. Not just the parts of me that I want her to see, or the things I’m projecting, but the moments when I’m not paying attention to Who I think I am or Who I think I should be.

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Fostering Fitness Now: The Why

Fostering Fitness Now: The Why By Lara Foster Have you ever gotten that feeling? Looking at your days with wonder, thinking, can there be more? Can I be more? At one time or another everyone goes through a shift like this. We all wonder Why. Why do we do this? Why are we here? I

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