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My High Schooler’s Stress About Failure And My Blogging Anniversary
Last night I stayed up late talking to my rather upset daughter Meg. She is a senior in high school and based on the amount of ice cream consumed in the past couple of days, she is a very stressed...
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Seven Years Later A Hurt Can Still Draw Blood
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway Above: Hemingway’s writing studio in Key West, FL. Christmas morning, 2005 The first presidential...
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When Halloween and Thanksgiving Collide
When my kids were growing up I made a rule that once they were out of elementary school they could no longer go trick-or-treating. It wasn’t my plan to be mean momma, not at all. I just always thought...
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Ted And A Heap, Excuse Me, Four Cubic Yards, Of Gravel
Yesterday we had four cubic yards of gravel delivered as part of our backyard remodeling project. This morning as I looked out the window and was wondering how many shovel fulls it was going to take to...
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On The Necessity Of Checking Your Child’s Medical Records
Ted is back on medication. He hasn’t taken a prescription drug since July 2004 when I weaned him off of Zoloft after being told by one practitioner that the dosage of Zoloft another practitioner had...
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It’s Graduation Day!
Milestones. Achievement. Moving forward. A day shared. Happiness. Just a few of the thoughts bouncing around my head that is oh so full of thoughts. But right now, today, I don’t feel like trying to...
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Imperfect=Empathy
My daughter Meg puts a tremendous amount of pressure on herself. While she was growing up I always said I didn’t need to punish her much because she punished herself much harder than I ever could or...
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On Motherhood and Why I Didn’t Mourn an Asperger’s Diagnosis
All I knew for sure was I wanted to get pregnant. I REALLY wanted to get pregnant. It was like this compelling, hormone-driven need had over taken me. There was no reasoning with this need. It had to...
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You Need to Read This. Seriously, You Do
Okay, so yeah, I said you should read this article and seriously you should. Especially if you are the parent of a child with any kind of disability or difference you should read it. I liked this...
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Something a Good Mother Instinctively Knows
“It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.” Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the United Nations, 1953-1961 image...
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