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By Tamara Elizabeth Fabulously Fifty and Reflecting It! – Discovering My Lovable Me is my story, a story of a woman who has discovered how through my reflections, the truly fabulously lovable me; the authentic me that I was born to be. Today I am a confident, lovable courageous woman who realizes that fairytales don’t always have the ending of children’s books, but they can have the ending and continuation of what we truly want and believe. I have sass, courage, spunk, determination and attitude. This book is the result of hard work and perseverance on a self-love journey. It is the reflection of my life and from these reflections I have created a workbook for women traversing their own transitions to help them keep focused and heading in the direction of success. Each essay will strike a cord with the reader, as I have been where she has journeyed.  I am your voice. I speak as you. I have been where you have travelled. I have finished licking my wounds and jumped back into...

Today, at Writing Daze visiting author Robert Orfali makes a compelling case for legalized physician-assisted dying after he watched his wife die from cancer. We had the chance to ask him the following question. Q:   Our spouses become so much a part of us that it is hard to go on with live after they pass. Imagine you find a letter from your wife, Jeri, and it said, “Thanks for the adventures now go have your own adventures.”   What would some of those adventures be?  Robert Orfali and his wife Jeri A:   Actually, Jeri left me with an assignment that has thrown me into a new adventure.   On her dying bed, she told me, “I waited too long.”   Being a cancer patient, Jeri was in support of physician assisted dying as it is practiced in the states of Oregon and Washington.   Sadly, that was not an option for her in Hawaii where she died.   My “adventure” is to help pass “Jeri’s Bill” in Hawaii to lift that cruel prohibition, and make it eas...