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Carrying Water
When I used to go with my mom on her epic 2 weeks of groceries at multiple stores PLUS coupons grocery runs (a frugal queen), my main source of entertainment was reading tabloid covers while waiting in line. Alien babies, the Sun about to explode, bat children discovered in caves, etc. All very exciting and […]
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May There One Day Be No “Other”
I took my kids to a coffee shop in a nearby town I used to work in. It’s in an old house and full of local art and has a huge wrap around porch. I remember coming here with a woman who chain smoked and we would sit outside and have our sessions there, sipping […]
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Memoir
Perspective
Just Like Christmas
For all kinds of reasons, and especially this year, the holidays are a mix of wonder and heartbreak, magic and stress, togetherness and loneliness. One Christmas Eve when I was young, in the house at the top of our family farm’s gravel road, my grandmother slipped from this world into the next while my cousins, […]
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Life Lately
Mental health
I’m Usually Pretty Good in a Crisis
So much has been happening so quickly. Last week, I began working from home part time and going into the office part time. I took the kids hiking on a nearby trail. I let the big one play with fire and try to melt crayons for art and I let the little one use all […]
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Feel Good
Gratitude, Positive Thinking, Reframing
Health and Wellness
Mental health
Uncategorized
10 Ways to Reset Yourself When Everything is Going Wrong
The human experience offers us a variety of experiences and opportunities throughout life and one of those experiences is the everything is going wrong experience. There have been times in my life that I was offered the experience so often and so frequently that I sometimes just had to laugh at the ridiculousness of […]
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