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Dear All, I took my daughters to Kinky Boots at the Hollywood Bowl the other night. It was the first time we had been there in two and a...
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Nora Plesent
- 6 days ago
- 5 min
What We Need From our Fathers
Dear All, Last night I came home from dinner with friends and walked up the front steps to my house, as I always do. I noticed the roses...
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Nora Plesent
- Jun 8
- 4 min
It's My Honor
Last night I went to my granddaughter’s nursery school graduation. The seven “graduates” walked onto the stage in adorable dressy outfits...
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Nora Plesent
- May 20
- 5 min
Does the Winner Take it All?
I loved my father's voice. So clear, so authoritative, so kind. When he would look at me with his gentle dark eyes that sparkled with...
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Nora Plesent
- May 4
- 5 min
Try a Little Tenderness
Tell me how you are doing. Really doing. I am struggling to make sense of things right now. I am mourning my dad big time and I am...
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Nora Plesent
- Apr 29
- 4 min
Selfie or Soulfie?
My 5-year-old granddaughter knows how and often takes “selfies”. Don't we all? For many of us who grew up with cameras that didn’t have...
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Nora Plesent
- Apr 22
- 6 min
I Want To Be Ready
My siblings and I were raised to revere Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. There was almost a religious quality to the role the company...
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Nora Plesent
- Apr 3
- 5 min
Nostalgia
I recently heard a reporter state that they are seeing a “return to nostalgia”. That made me laugh. Did nostalgia disappear? Are we now...
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Nora Plesent
- Mar 11
- 3 min
Be Still and Soar
Two years ago today I was celebrating my birthday with my husband, my youngest daughter, my stepson and daughter in law and two of my...
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Nora Plesent
- Feb 17
- 4 min
Please Tell Me When to Jump.
As some of you know, my dad passed away a few weeks ago. He was my hero and I am bereft. It doesn't matter that he "lived a long life" or...
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Nora Plesent
- Jan 20
- 7 min
Ten Things I Have Learned
We’ve talked a lot about the lessons we’ve learned individually and collectively these last few years, specifically about who we are in...
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Nora Plesent
- Jan 6
- 4 min
Become Engaged...
The trend these days is to choose a “word for the year”. Although I have nothing against the idea of creating an intention and living...
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Nora Plesent
- Dec 24, 2021
- 5 min
Water is a Catalyst of Life.
Today, I woke up to the sound of rain. Not gentle, drizzly rain, but harsh, insistent rain. When it rains in Southern California, it’s a...
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Nora Plesent
- Dec 2, 2021
- 5 min
Not What Any of us Expected
“It is a universal experience for life not to turn out as we want or expect.” These are the wise words of Edith Eger, a concentration...
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Nora Plesent
- Oct 29, 2021
- 4 min
Torn to Pieces...
I heard a new word this week and was blown away by it. I was rereading Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindberg and came cross the...
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Nora Plesent
- Oct 15, 2021
- 3 min
Thresholds
Less than two years ago, most of us had no idea what Zoom was. And now look at us - masters at creating tropical backgrounds, learning...
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Nora Plesent
- Oct 2, 2021
- 3 min
Not Knowing
This was a week of doubt. A week of darkness. A week of questioning. A week of not knowing. Not knowing why I felt so low and not knowing...
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Nora Plesent
- Sep 23, 2021
- 4 min
Almost...
Much of our lives is spent in the land of almost. We are almost done, almost ready, almost grown up. We observe the stages of our...
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Nora Plesent
- Sep 9, 2021
- 5 min
Everything Tastes Better with a Little Zest
ZEST is great Scrabble word. It’s also one of those feel good words that sounds like what it means; a pick me up, a spark, a little...
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Nora Plesent
- Aug 26, 2021
- 5 min
Just the sound of the word...
Just the sound of the word QUIT sends shivers up my spine. We’ve been taught to be disgusted by the concept of quitting and to be...
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