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Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

Regina Brett

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Regina Brett
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 31
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Ravenna
Ohio
Bows
Tied
Gift
Stills
Still
Life

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Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked in one pocket, which wasn't sanitary, but was comforting to the child who needed a tear or nose wiped.
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Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.
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It takes tough love to order kids to step away from the iPhone or iPad during dinner or to take the devices away if they're interrupting and interfering with everyone else's pleasure at a movie, concert or other public event.
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Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
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Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
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We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we're sending out into the cybersphere.
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Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.
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When in doubt, take the next step.
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Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
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Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?
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No matter how I feel, I get up, dress up, and show up for life. When I do, the day always serves up more than I could have hoped for. Each day truly is a slice of heaven. Some days the slices are just smaller than others.
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Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.
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No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.
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Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.
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We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering machine, just a dad who barked, 'Who calls during dinner? If it's important, they'll call back.' He was right.
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When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
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It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
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Forgive everyone everything.
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A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
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Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
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