The more I travel the more my boundaries are pushed and the smaller the world becomes. Despite my (sometimes) heart stopping discomfort of flying I still force myself, from time to time, to get on a…
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culture & community relationships & love sisterhood
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It seems I cannot write unless it is something I am passionate about. My post is a day late because of this. I was going to post some poetry I had written over the…
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Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do. ~French Proverb For the longest time I was a talker, a dreamer. I was…
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I have marking to do, report cards to complete, a blog to write, a house to clean, a lawn to mow, a garden to ……
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Before apps, there was playing outdoors. And as I think back, “go, go, stop” seemed like about grade two for me. But lately, life (wonderfully) has been feeling like an eight year olds’ game…
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culture & community pregnancy & parenting relationships & love sisterhood
Getting On With Your Life (or: Kindly Keep Your Questions to Yourself)
“So when are you going to get on with your life?” Reading Briana’s post last week brought up a litany of emotions that were wholly familiar. I was reminded of comments I received back in the…
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I wrote this list to cheer up a friend who seemed anxious about a particular birthday we both faced this past February (despite this friend being a man who receives precisely zero amounts of…
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You’ll have to forgive me as I haven’t experienced a proper fall in roughly seven years, and when I say “fall,” I mean that period of time when forests of trees bleed all manner of crimson…
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pregnancy & parenting relationships & love travel
Music, Forks and Life (or: How I Kissed Another Guy)
I don’t think the husband or I would admit to being overly romantic. We just (as in, last week) established a regular date night after 8 years of parenting. (I consider the years of…
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I don’t particularly look forward to birthdays. Nor do I dread them. They’re just kind of “meh”. This year was different: I was genuinely excited. It was my golden birthday. My boyfriend and I…