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What Is Love? Nolan Speaks.
Nolan is my husband. When I’m not highly irritated with him, he’s pretty good at being a guest poster on the blog. Since we are in the month of love, I thought that a few of us could write about it....
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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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Guest Post: The Edge’s Flame
Find her here- http://streetlightsimagination.com/ Cristina is my gemela. She is fire and I am water. We think and walk in much the same way but also in ways that would cancel each other out if we...
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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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Skin Deeper.
Sigh. Let me whine. I get this disconcerting series of comments regularly lately. They usually go in about this fashion, pardon me if I get it a bit off…. “You always look SO cute and put together! I...
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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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Hey Mama!
It’s my mama’s birthday and I wish I had a more recent picture of her and I, but alas, one from her wedding a few years ago will have to do. This girl deserves the best day and the best year...
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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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The Blue.
What Dreams May Come. “Thank you…for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.” -Richard Matheson I always thought that when I died, I would...
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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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Learning Without A Teacher Is Hard Work: Nolan Goes TEAL.
Death is something that has always frightened me. In a world filled with ephemera, pop fads, and 140-character life updates, death has a permanence to it that terrifies me. Cancer is something I...
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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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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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To White Shores.
I hope that Ms. Maynard has found her peace. As I have always wished for anyone in death, J.R.R. Tolkein wrote it the most eloquently: ‘End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another...
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