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Mother Ship Down!
Funny thing, illness. As inconvenient and frustrating as it can be, it has the unique redeeming quality of being able to...
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A Tale of Countless Pregnancies
It’s National Infertility Awareness Week. It’s a topic of which my husband and I are all too aware. Having spent years trying to conceive...
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Adorable, Right Up Until...
The world is full of mundane things. Things to which no one gives a second glance. But when you make those tiresome things smaller, they...
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She
There come these moments in every mom's life (or so I assume, if only because I steadfastly refuse to accept that it is only in mine) whe...
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View of a Struggle - Letter to a Loved One
No matter what you are or what you feel, I love you and I always will.
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A Dose of Perspective Upside the Head
I was feeling a little overwhelmed and frustrated this morning until our doorbell rang and it was our neighbor requesting a jump for...
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Reflections on these United States: A Pandemic Problem
As a first-generation American, I’ve been fortunate enough to have the rather unique experience of seeing my country in split-screen view...
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Summer Storm - A MicroStory
Raindrops slammed into the ground as if fired from a shotgun, each drop exploding like a land mine, carving its own crater in the dirt...
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How to Help a Person Suffering a Mental Health Crisis
While I looked fine on the outside, and generally WAS when with others, the rest of the time I was terrified, frustrated, exhausted...
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A Soul Bared
In the early Winter of 2009, in the midst of what should have been the great joy of expecting our son, I was in a very bad place. I was...
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Congrats, Graduate!
Here we are, folks, about to enter another fantastic season. Not Spring, of course, when Mother Nature shows off glorious cherry and...
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Played Like a Fiddle
Tonight at dinner, The Lass busted her dad and revealed that he made a jump for them on the big sledding hill last year. "On the steepest..
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Once in a Lifetime
“Once in a lifetime” is a term often used to describe individual moments, snippets of life. Perfectly timed photos. Lightning strikes...
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Goodbye, Old Friend
I find myself in a quandary. How do I say goodbye to someone I haven’t spoken to in twenty years? “Gosh, Jen,” you might say. “Twenty...
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The Tale of Tattling Trixie*
Originally Posted: 2019 *Names have been changed to protect the guilty. As I subbed in a Kindergarten classroom this morning, I...
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Remember the Me I Am Today
In October 2012, my hubby and I decided to take a quick get-away to Captiva Island, Florida. We’d never done anything of the sort, and a...
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Sense This
To say the past several months have been rough would be to tell a half-truth. No, it would be to tell a one-sixteenth truth. Or maybe...
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Tending the Garden of My Soul
In 2018, my daughter innocently passed on words of wisdom that have reached much farther than she will likely ever know. Our conversation...
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The Day the Heavy Seven Met Their Match
A blog post that always provides a good dose of perspective and a handy "Well, it's not as bad as the time..." story.
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