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2022-02-04 Checking In and Checking Out… ✅
We’re one month into 2022 and it’s a good day to check in on those goals and resolutions. 10 items on my list and 10 things to report on… Read a book a month. Unless you count the winter issue of Rattle, this was a total fail. ❌. I think my problem is not having…
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2022-02-03 I Need to Write This
When I say I need to write this, what I mean is that I need to try and work through my thoughts and feelings. I need to come to terms with what’s happened, document my perspective for posterity, and try to find some internal resolution and peace. That’s what this is. Yesterday I had a…
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2022-02-02 Let’s Do the Time Warp Again…
Time warp? Where to? How about oh-two, oh-two, two-oh, two-oh? It’s not too far. Only two years away. Only two years away? You don’t say! Yes, Two years from this day was the day little Miss SugarCookie finally got her way. Which makes today… her two year anniversary!! That’s right people. I’m celebrating my 2…
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2022-01-28 Giving Birth is Hard Work, Especially When You’re Distracted
I’m pushing hard to get that next “baby” of an issue for my lit mag out into the wide world. This one has a big head. It’s what’s on my mind and I keep getting distracted by the rest of life. My husband is off work today which started at 6:30 am with a work…
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2022-01-21 What’s Done is Done
Two days ago I was writing about my uncle in the hospital and today my dad had to make the tough decision to pull the intubation tube out of him, presumably the only thing keeping him alive. His body just could not take all the trauma of surgery and apparently he’s suffered many tiny strokes…
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2022-01-20 Waiting.. and More Waiting + Thinking About Death
A week ago my uncle was taken by ambulance to a hospital in CB. Same day he was transferred to a hospital in Omaha and prepped for surgery for a subdural hematoma—bleeding around his brain. Now it’s a week later and he’s awake but has been unresponsive. Still intubated, as I understand it and my…
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2022-01-17 Much Ado About a Monday Status Update… ✅✅❌
We’re now over half way through the month of January so it’s about time I check myself before I wreck myself. In other words.. how am I doing on the New Years resolution front? To be fair I think I only officially declared my set of goals a little over a week ago so anything…
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2022-01-16 Where’s the Magic? 🪄
I promised myself yesterday that if I couldn’t switch gears and write something new here at the Lied Lodge, I would not be hard on myself. I want to be kind to myself and make space for some grace. While this place has historically been pure gold where generating new work is concerned, this 1-day-only…
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