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2024-05-01 Time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin…
Welcome to May. May 1st. Mayday, May poles, and May baskets for those who believe in the magic of history and tradition. Mayday is probably one of those historical traditions that was lost with my parent’s generation. I have vague memories of it from my childhood, putting together baskets and leaving them on doorsteps of…
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2024-04-12 What it Means to be Seen and Heard…
I need to tell someone. But I don’t have anyone to tell. A therapist might say this need comes from my childhood when I was mostly ignored by my parents. I was a child doing a thing a child thought was the right thing to do – be seen and not heard. Turns out, I…
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2023-12-23 The Antidote
About a week ago I posted about all the things that get my ire up. It wasn’t necessarily a grumpy post but I can see where someone might find it particularly glass-is-half-empty. Since then I’ve been thinking, which is a prickly business but very human of me. There have been several events that have transpired…
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2023-12-17 This One IS About Sandwiches 🥪
The word of the month is “sandwich” and every variation of the word — sandwiches, sandwiched, sand witch, and sandwicher. Why? Because I said so. Ok. So it doesn’t have to be every person’s word of the month but if I have to “observe” something as dumb as Valentine’s Day, then I for sure can…
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2023-11-30 Designated Daughter
Late winter 2021, in February I think, my mom came over to the house for a visit and sat across from me and said “My bowels are acting strange. I think I might have cancer.” I looked her straight in the eyes, while trying not to roll mine and said “Don’t be ridiculous. You don’t…
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Protected: 2023-10-21 Stop the Ride…
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Protected: 2023-10-12 Not Your Ordinary Thursday Struggle
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2023-10-07 Entering Stealth Poet Mode, but To What End?
Hey guess what?! Turns out I’m anti-social. No kidding!! Ok… so that’s not new news but I did a creativity workshop this morning and one of the bullet points staring at me from the barrel of that PowerPoint gun was this:❀ Opening ourselves to new experiences opens the door to creativity ❀ No kidding?!! Yeah……
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