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who loves the kids?

February 4, 2012

Parents in a situation like ours have a ROUGH LIFE. There is no easy way to separate something that was never intended to be separated. We didn’t live our lives with the thought that someday we would have split it up. Parents have an incredibly hard job. Divorcing parents can make a hard job EVEN [...]

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two years ago

November 17, 2011

“Good night, mama.” My 7yo hugged and kissed me and we went through the rituals of bedtime. “I know what tomorrow is,” she said, with her arms arms still wrapped around my neck. Thinking she was talking about the dentist appointment she had, I said, “Oh yeah?” “Two years ago you had your strokes.” And [...]

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more deep thoughts (and posting twice a day)

May 20, 2011

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. [...]

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was there ever a choice?

March 4, 2011

I got a message from a friend the other day. She’d been stuck with one arm for a week and couldn’t believe I did it. There really wasn’t any other choice. I think back to the beginning. I could have decided to just accept that I would never get any better. I had every right [...]

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I believe

January 2, 2011

Very few times will you see or hear me force-feed you the things I believe in most. But this is one of those times. Prepare to be force-fed. I believe in my relationship with God. I believe in my love of family. I believe I’ve been blessed with friends. I believe in the power of [...]

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a day spent reading the interwebs

October 13, 2010

I would love to tell you something that is meaningful and deep. Tell you how I spent the day doing things that changed the world. I really spent most of my day online. Now, I did some fairly important stuff. But a large portion of the day was spent going from article to article. On [...]

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how i learn most things, just not math

October 10, 2010

I tend to feel like it’s natural to be afraid of anything new. I have these thing that I’ve had to force myself to do. And I won’t lie.  They scare me.  They’d scare anyone. I’ve forced the parts of my body that don’t want to cooperate to do exactly THAT. Moving the parts that [...]

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i got a new talent and it doesn’t involve cherry stems and knots

June 29, 2010

I was surprised when my whiny (YES, WHINY) post encouraged non-commenters to comment.  I don’t even know how to tell you that I wasn’t expecting people to actually come out of the woodwork to be REALLY kind and say lovely, squishy things that kept me going on a day when I just wanted to roll [...]

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