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Gym-spiration: Lessons Learned While Lifting Weights
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
I am the daughter of a gym rat. My dad was a lifelong athlete and became a Golden Gloves boxer in the Navy who said he remembered sparring with Charles Bronson back then. Not sure who won, but I can imagine my tenacious father giving it all he had. When my sister and I were…
All the Colors of the Rainbow
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
A mama story. This shirt always reminds me of my mother. It isn’t because she was a tie-dyed crunchy granola tree hugging hippie like her daughter. When she was in the hospital back in 2010, I was visiting her in South Florida where she and my dad had lived since 1989, having retired and…
Enough Is Enough
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Tonight after a sweaty ‘playout’ at the gym, I was washing my face and a woman about a decade older than me limps into the bathroom, smiling and grimacing simultaneously. Knowing nods passed between us and she commented the her legs felt like noodles and I added something about the proverbial line of feeling…
Answers From The Great Beyond
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
A few days ago, I experienced what author and speaker SQuire Rushnell refers to as a God Wink (a confirmation from the Divine that we are on the right track) as I was driving on the very same road (Route 309 in Montgomeryville, PA) on which this event took place in 2008. Four years…
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