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Initially, I had planned a different topic for this week, but my emotions have led me here instead. I tend to be that way…when I commit to something (like writing this blog), I will plot and plan and map it out a ways into the future, but sometimes I find something that calls to my
When I was 13, our first significant creative writing project of the year was to write an alternate ending to “Animal Farm.” Super fun! Until I got pulled aside one day. My English teacher, Mrs. Creviston, firmly believed I had not written what I turned in, and in fact suspected the author to be my
The Fabulous Miss Whitney I thought this would be easier to write than it is, but all I want to do is cry. Whitney, I love you and I will never be able to repay the role you have had in my life and in our family. For those of you who don’t know Whitney,
Diagnosis labels shouldn’t matter to people we don’t know…but they do. I wish I was able to walk into a store without having to explain so much as one of my son’s conditions…but I can’t. If you’re a parent of young children, you know…no matter how much you treasure your kiddos, store shopping with them
Happy Saturday and welcome to what will be my usual posting day 🙂 I would like to quickly say it was great to hear from everyone that e-mailed and texted me after my launch this past Monday. And thank you for making time once again in your busy worlds to read my words! This week,
This past summer I wrote a series of very emotionally raw e-mails to a group of friends that I no longer get to see on a regular basis after I started to go all Mount Vesuvius over some things I was experiencing. I’m pretty sure my occasional e-mails are the only reason they know I’m
