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The Great Debate [In My Head]
I hear Lola stir in her crib upstairs just as I’m half way through an article on the Today Parents Website. She’s cooing and talking joyfully at first and then her pleads became more urgent. I know as...
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Timing My Online Life
My friend Elaine of The Miss Elaine-ous Life recently posed the question: how many hours do you think you spend online each day? My response was as follows: Hard for me to say, a good solid two hours...
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I’m Not Cut Out For This Shit
One of the goals I set for myself this year was to submit my writing to different Web sites to gain some greater exposure and I finally, not only found the time to write a post that I felt was worthy...
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Being Busy
Before I even got out of bed the other morning, I reached for my phone and cancelled lunch plans, a gym date, movie and dinner with a friend and a doctor’s appointment. I also decided I wasn’t going to...
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My mother died seven years ago but I have always missed her. I think about my mother a lot during the holidays. She adored Christmas with a childlike glee, made the best chocolate chip and sugar...
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The Waves Of Motherhood
One moment calm and quiet. Still and serene. The next vicious and cold. Loud and puzzling. We crash into one another like angry waves. It is powerful, vast and engulfing, completely out of my control....
View ArticleFrozen: Six Options
My six-year-old son doesn’t remember hanging out with me for countless hours in our fertility doctor’s waiting room. Much more patient than I ever was, I might add. He doesn’t recall the separate, much...
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One Week
For several minutes, I could hear the steady bounce of the springs on the trampoline. I could him karate chopping the air and yelling “Hi-Ya!” as well as other combative nonsense. Then suddenly I heard...
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Warts & Body Image – NaBloPoBo
My son has warts. They are located in four of the nail beds of his fingers and other various places on his hands, sprinkled across the bridge of his nose, above his top lip and along one side of his...
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Done! – NaBloPoMo
So much for owing myself six more consecutive NaBloPoMo posts. Agh!! Well, I tried. This time of the year is so rough with lengthy to do lists, shorten tempers and trying to squeeze it all in. Just...
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