Aug 29 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Special to the NEWS heathercathleencox@gmail.com Every time I saw an ambulance pass by, in the direction of my parents’ house, my heart sunk into my stomach. I just knew it was for her. To live a life always waiting for bad news—waiting to hear your Mama died, somehow, as if you …
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Aug 22 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Special to the NEWS heathercathleencox@gmail.com Excellence is a disciplined habit, rather than a learned skill or quantifiable goal. Little choices each day add up to big life changes in the future. Each life decision we habitually infuse with true and genuine excellence will trickle down into every other area of our …
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Aug 15 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer HeatherCathleenCox@gmail.com Have you ever felt like you’re trapped in an unsavory existence, like life is zooming by while you’re stagnantly sitting in a stale-aired cubicle, staring at a computer monitor, praying for the weekend to arrive? Well, recently, something similar happened to me. Suddenly, I began to think. I …
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Aug 08 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com I recently took a social media quiz titled How Big of a Player Are You? My results were as follows: “You are a respectable dater, the opposite of a player. You either don’t try to play the game, or you’re failing miserably at it.” Truer words have never …
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Aug 01 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Like many folks in our society, I utilize the World Wide Web to search for interesting tidbits, informative articles, inspiring quotes and amusing photographs—both for personal enrichment and work-related reasons. A few days ago, I stumbled upon a photo which I found so interesting, I shared it with …
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Jul 25 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com I did a Google search for the word uncomplicate—just the word, with nothing following or preceding it—and 101,000-plus related articles and websites popped up. The following topics were included on the first page of results: 28 ways to uncomplicate your relationship; 100 ways to uncomplicate your life; 100 …
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Jul 18 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@portisabelsouthpadre.com When asked by my high school career counselor what I wanted to do with my life, I said, “I want to leave the Valley.” What I really meant was I wanted to be free. Free from the constraints of academia, of my parents, of religion, of all the …
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Jul 11 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com If we listen to society, no matter how successful someone becomes, a person can do no right. From the restaurants we visit to the way we dress, absolutely everything we do is subject to someone’s scrutiny. But those who scrutinize us from their soapboxes of self-admonition are rarely …
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Jul 03 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com We definitely need to establish a plan for our lives if we want to be successful. There’s a well-known ideology that states if a person does the same thing repeatedly, they will get the same results. So, in order to obtain something different, a person must do something …
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Jan 14 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Special to the NEWS I do a lot of things. I’m not someone who really can say, “Oh, I’m a (blank),” and have it be the whole story. Sometimes, when people ask me what I do, I really get uncomfortable because I don’t think what I do is definable, unless I …
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