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I think this is a topic that we don’t hear enough about, and the decision to use medication while breastfeeding [...]
Wanna chuckle at my kid’s possible future interest in being dizzy? Maybe he’ll just like riding those octopus rides at county fairs.
This is him walking around in my reading glasses, fascinated by his feet not being exactly where he thinks they should be.
There is this 25 random facts thing circulating on Facebook right now, and one of the things a friend wrote really resonated with me. She said she almost quit using the social networking site because it reminded her of her high school angst and it made her feel uneasy.
I’ve been sort of dealing with the [...]
As much as I hate to cause conflict, I just really can’t let this day go by without saying something divisive.
I don’t want to do it.
I feel compelled, and I have been mulling this over quite a bit today. I am not even sure I have all the details worked out. But I’m forging ahead [...]
His nickname was Flash, because the handful of southern-American soldiers that came to work with him felt more comfortable with a nickname than his real name. His Iraqi name.
He translated for these four men in a remote post southeast of Baghdad. He befriended them. He joined in video phone conversations with families on occasion, laughed [...]
This morning, I cried as I read the sad story of an army doctor who died in a mortar attack in Mosul on Christmas morning. His wife had spoken to him every day during his deployment, and when he didn’t call she thought he must be working on a soldier, trying to patch him up [...]
Well, okay. It wasn’t actually my homework. It was a card I wrote for an exceptional friend, a handwritten, beautiful card, that I was so excited about mailing and having her receive. I thought the postman had taken it away, but then I found the envelope, muddy and chewed, beside the front porch.
She saw the [...]
Autumn in Virginia has begun. The first cold morning found me shivering under too-thin blankets, and even the shine of blue sky wasn’t enough to warm me. The cold slows down my blood, my thoughts. So I do what I always do when I get that feeling of change and a slow ending, or a [...]
My mate, ever the funny one, told me one time, “We love ourselves, but we don’t think we’re worth it.” He was absolutely right, about both of us. I do battle with the doubtful voice in my head daily, although I am a quitter and usually give up after the first feeling of inadequacy.
At least, [...]
I have my first public reading Saturday. I had chosen a piece of short fiction that I wrote, but my Mate indicated it might be too graphic for a mixed audience. It’s not bad, really. His limits are just, well…limiting. But I looked at it and thought about reading it out loud, in front of [...]
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