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“Ahas” are the golden nuggets of self-discovery. The eureka moments when you recognize that this Wisdom Lesson is something big.
Again my nose was my source of misery. Read This Burning Head Pain is Familiar for the background story on my phobia.Although it seems the pregnancy had kept the bugs out of my body, now the bugs wanted back in. My eyeballs felt like they were going to pop out of my head and hit…
I love books. I love to escape into books. They’re like a free vacation and I even think of them as friends. Who can argue the pleasure of a free vacation with a friend. When you find a good one, you can’t wait to return to that good feeling you have being there. Last week,…
When we go to the beach, I end up with a bag of shells. I’m a collector, therefore I am. In random drawers in my house you’ll find little bags of unmarked seashells. When I stumble upon these , I am sometimes sad to not remember where each bag is from. And then I had…
I have a joke about my dining room chairs. I say they took me four naps to re-glue and paint. Although that was seven years ago and they just need to get thrown in the dumpster now. The point was that, when you have a baby, you have to dare to grab the moment and…
We were planning to attend a party on a Saturday afternoon. I remembered from a previous year, and a previous weekend, that my son had been the littlest guy there and the monkey in the middle. Wanting to be of “help”, I said that I too felt like an outsider in groups sometimes and secretly…
As one week rolls into the next, we find ourselves standing somewhere new. No we didn’t plan it. And yes, we must accept that despite our every loving plan to correlate, coördinate, and coöperate to control our destinies, there’s always something right outside our peripheral vision sniggering at us for our naiveté. In the middle…
It is probably one of the hardest things I’ll ask myself to do other than birth that baby. To throw out my dear friend word processor. And here’s the rest of the story. I wanted to write. Always. And at some point, my Mom and Grandmother and maybe my Sister all chipped in to buy…
This article was first published in August, 2009 on Divine Caroline. This is pre-blog and the second article I wrote and published on-line. It speaks to what I mentioned in my yard sale pieces about that last yard sale I had after I shut my shop down. As a housewarming gift, our friends rented us…
I try hard to not care about your thoughts, really I do. But there’s an underlying understanding that I need your approval. I need to be thin enough for you. Or pretty enough. Or smart enough. And you are everyone and you are everywhere. Even when I’m alone, you are still there looking through my…
My problem is that I never liked a popularity contest. I wasn’t popular nor did I care to be. I find it hard to care whether anyone “likes” me. Jimmy Crack Corn. I’m stubborn and figure, either you like me and you get me or you don’t. And this little attitude would be fine if…
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