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A near miss

Tuesday, November 23, 2010 By 3 Comments

I think my children are trying to kill themselves or see who can be the first to give me a heart attack. They were in the den, on the couch. I heard the thud. I heard the cry. It settled to a quiet sob fairly quickly then a yell at a sibling. I was slow(er [...]

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Today

Monday, November 8, 2010 By 8 Comments

“Mama, no, no, no! Don’t go in deh kitchen; dere’s someting inbisible in dere! It’s a MONSTER!” I thought he was just playing around with his brother and having fun “retending”. I tried to play along a bit until I realized he really was scared about something in the kitchen. He grabbed my hand and [...]

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Mortified Pride

Saturday, August 21, 2010 By 3 Comments

We have crossed into a territory that is new to me. I am a woman. I experienced many things as an adolescent, a teenager learning about my body and what was happening to it, how to handle it, what to do, what not to do. All of my experiences from two perspectives – my own, [...]

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Glory Baby

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 By 1 Comment

Thanks to friends on facebook and twitter and emails and dms and links and I could go on, we feel loved and blessed to have the friends we do; the Internet can be totally amazing some times. More than one friend shared this with me and so I post it now. Glory baby you slipped [...]

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A season of winter

Sunday, June 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Dear children, I love and adore you with all my heart. Your are all growing and changing in so many ways. There seems to be a lot of hardships these days. Each one of you is being tested. We all are. Things are changing and moving out of your control. Life is shifting. And this [...]

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