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Maureen Seel

Mar 8, 20236 min read

New York and a lesson in impatience.

Something I have come to realize since moving to New York is that deep down, I've always been a New Yorker at heart-maybe even since I...

Maureen Seel

Dec 13, 20229 min read

Christmas: Guilt-Giving, Toxic Positivity, and commercialism at its finest.

Unlike many people I know, I look forward to Christmas all year round. This is not because of getting gifts or even because of amazing...

Maureen Seel

Dec 5, 20227 min read

A Christmas Carol: Learning to live in the present and change your future by learning from the past.

And here we are, at part 3 of my Christmas Carol blog. This is part of my month-long "Life Lessons From Christmas Movies"(/stories)....

Maureen Seel

Dec 1, 20225 min read

A Christmas Carol: Improving the future by letting go of the past

I had mentioned in the first part of this three-part series that I planned to write about "A Christmas Carol" not quite in order,...

Maureen Seel

Nov 29, 20227 min read

A Christmas Carol: Learning from our past so we can live in the present and not fear the future.

Part 1: Learning from the past. For this particular blog post, I wanted to cover this story in three parts. Because not only is "A...

Maureen Seel

Nov 28, 20226 min read

Life Lessons from Christmas Movies: Rudolph's Red Nose and Learning to Love Your Strangeness.

After my husband and I picked up and moved to Brooklyn, New York, with our crazy dog and two cats, I started to focus almost exclusively...

Maureen Seel

Nov 18, 20223 min read

Hitting rock bottom or digging for buried treasure?

I always thought that I understood the definition of a "midlife crisis". I pictured a 40-something person (we will avoid gender...