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Making Room in My Life for Me
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Making Room in My Life for Me

ByShalagh Hogan February 24, 2023April 30, 2024

I have been emerging back into my life as I fight to be needed less by others. I fight more to show up for myself where I am needed which currently involves time in my craftroom. The craftroom being an analogy for my creative life. I believe this withdrawal into myself is the product of…

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The Mother Buffer Zone
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The Mother Buffer Zone

ByShalagh Hogan March 2, 2018February 26, 2021

I’ve always said she wants to be my hat and sit on my head. When my daughter is feeling needy, she can’t be on top of me enough. Everything that she emotionally needs is drawn from me and it’s more than draining. The give and the take between a girl and her mother is exhausting…

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My Small World
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My Small World

ByShalagh Hogan July 11, 2014March 12, 2021

When I lived in the city, my world was Big. I had anywhere and anything I wanted right there for the taking. Art galleries and fabulous food, stores galore, parks, and music venues all at my whimsical disposal. Then I moved here to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the Land of Pleasant Living, and a…

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On Being Here Now
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On Being Here Now

ByShalagh Hogan March 7, 2014March 10, 2021

As we plow into another weekend, I take a moment to say, here I am. I’m being here now. I’m busy but I’m being here now, for myself and for my family. He asked me why I look so busy all the time. I said because I had four people to take care of. And…

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What My Nose Taught Me
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What My Nose Taught Me

ByShalagh Hogan June 28, 2013January 31, 2022

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…

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Life is Organic
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Life is Organic

ByShalagh Hogan March 12, 2013January 14, 2022

As I began this pregnancy, I recognized a future coming in which my new baby and my blog would be sharing my attention. And I contemplated what that would mean this time around. Nearly 8 years ago, I was a  first time Mom and I was freaked out, sure my personal identity would be swallowed…

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