Reverb Redux: Greater Peace.
Prompt: How will you make space for greater peace in 2014? I have a few Reverb prompts that I just didn’t ‘feel’ back in December. Life was plenty chaotic then and now, while still at an uproar, it’s...
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A Chat on Manners with a Kiddo.
A big thing to me, probably more so than whether I am disciplining my kids over mundane things, is how they carry themselves. How they act towards others, in different situations, and I am probably...
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Skin.
A Mountain I have climbed. “Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be...
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Autuism Awareness Day. Meet my Little Prince.
Today is Autism Awareness Day. The spectrum for Autism is so new and vast for a lot of people that they will tend to unfairly lump any kid who may be struggling into it. This is sad to me. Not...
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Hair.
My kiddos don’t fit the apparent ‘hair regulations’ set forth by the universe of parenting. So, apparently, I have failed on that aspect of parent but I find it to be bonkers to be told things like,...
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RIP Maya.
Maya Angelou1928 – 2014 (86) Still I Rise You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset...
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Bloghopper Madness and Methods.
Cristina and I met in that gangsta’s paradise of writers known as twitter during Reverb in its first year. We traded barbed humor and quiet graces. Fearless in our honesty with one another but also...
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A Very Special #GuestPost: Meet Vanessa
Vanessa and I went to college together, about a million years ago. Or maybe way less than that. But to fill the void as I work out some writing kinks, she’s written something pretty awesome. See,...
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Numbers on a Page.
About a week ago, I celebrated an anniversary. Quietly. Not much ado. No big bangs going off. There’s been a lot of upheaval in our lives and there has also been a lot of negativity, especially about...
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It is on Purpose….
Have you ever kept quiet? Not in the ‘Keep your mouth shut!’ way but in the, there is so much I can say….my mind is never quiet…. So I choose to be quiet until I reach ‘IT’? That’s where I am. Not...
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Your Poverty.
Fill Your Hands. It comes to me in my quietness lately that there are so many people that really suffer who could actually do something about it. How, you might ask! They have THINGS, MONEY, POWER, AND...
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Click to view slideshow. One of the most important things I did things I did for myself during cancer/chemo/recovery was to make sure that I truly took time for myself. Whether it was a bath with...
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A TEAL Light House.
Let me tell you a story. Not all stories are fairy tales, dramas, or comedies. Some things just happen and you are left a bit battered but better. A person can be a light house. Terrible things happen...
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Tough It Out.
Before we get started, let me say this post is not about how awesome Eva is. Well, she is, but really the whole point here is comparing two extremely similar situations, two out of many such situations...
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To Whom It May Concern.
Dear World and Marketing Managers, This may bee hard to hear. Take a DEEP BREATH. But I NEED you to know this. It is NO WHERE NEAR Christmas yet. Not even Hanukkah. Nor Thanksgiving. In fact, we still...
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An Open Letter
This must be my ‘Issues Month’. This one has been rolling around in my head since it hit the news. I tossed it back and forth before I sat down and hesitantly jotted some of my ideas and feelings on...
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Counting
Counting his heart out, all the way to 20! It can be a struggle to not post the ins and outs of daily life of Owen having autism because I so value his right to grow up and feel...
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Eva 9.
‘Simple. Like a mountain is simple.’ -Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Dear Eva, You are almost half way done with being a kid, did you know that? It’s kind of hard to imagine. When I was pregnant...
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Living Grace.
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.” – Meister Eckhart Gratitude is the most important belief that I hold dear. It is the key to living a life of...
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