Dawn Marie's Audacity

Stop Apologizing for Having Emotions… Being Authentic

“Be yourself, everyone else is taken” I read this quote years ago and uttered it to myself, and who else will listen whenever I can. Recently I had a friend stop by. She had just...
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Outliving Our Children. The Club No One Wants To Be In

Death is always a guarantee. This sounds so easy to comprehend but extremely hard to imagine. Easy to say but hard to wrap your mind and heart around 8,765 days ago my baby girl died....
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Words Are Infinite

Going back to journals of my past. I read an entry from when I was a teen. November 13th, 1989. "Well, it's finally happening. The Berlin Wall was taken down after 28 years of communist...
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50 + 1

MY BIRTHDAY Every year, I analyze the things I am proud of and the things I would like to change. Of course, we have all heard the “where do you see yourself in 1, 5,...
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New Season

Retirement Starting to Pull Back and How it REALLY feels Awwww… retirement. That word that we hear all our lives. That word that seems to be at the very end of the yellow brick road...
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Mental Health… Let us all be “aware”

My son. My gorgeous sweet smoochy face cherub baby boy. This is what I remember all so well over 21 years ago. . My son. Now taller than me, with more leg hair than my...
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Ciao, Bella!

After a month of immersing myself in Italy... drinking and eating my way through farmlands, unsettled coastlines and a few days among people to see touristy things, I am home! Refreshed, grateful, blissful, and a...
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Inner Beauty and Boudoir Photography

Looking back at this photo taken of Brock and me. Lands End Cabo. 2004 Brock is 3 and I am almost two decades younger. Brock looks so serious, nestled on my lap, he looks safe....
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Spring! The seasons are changing, and so are hair trends

As the season changes, this may be a good time to change your hair. I myself, LOVE change, so I'm just the girl to do it. With proper consultation and education on the ease (...
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