Hot days. Stickiness. Sluggish. I need cold. Clinking ice cubes. Brain freeze. What I have is watermelon. A bit more searching and I have the makings for an afternoon slurpfest. Whip up a cold, dessert drink. Lay back and fan yourself. Start with watermelon. Be smarter than me and use a seedless melon. Put the [...]
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Earlier this year I went to my very first blogging conference. I was saved from wandering aimlessly in a sea of strangers by a group of ladies who had staked out a patch of carpet. Tiffany Manly of Sweet Phenomena was one of those friendly faces who invited me to hang out, chat and laugh [...]
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This is a story about riding a moment and making memories. At 5:00 Tuesday afternoon, in front of our neighborhood Starbucks, I let a strange man crawl under my hood. Girl Wonder and I make a quick stop to pick up gift cards for her teachers. My brain mapping a winding to do list and [...]
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I had plans to write about the super sweet bonding experience of cooking dinner with my daughter yesterday. But that would have been a laugh. I didn’t take pictures. And she repeatedly reminded that she was only doing it for the money. (She get’s $8.00 for cooking dinner and cleaning the kitchen. It’s part of [...]
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Today’s prompt: What is going home like? Home has never been in one place. I grew up overseas and we moved around a continent and then across the ocean to another one. Home is where my family is. Where my daughter sleeps. Where I can kick my shoes off and walk around in baggy pants. [...]
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I’m rocking a shaggy look. There’s only so much a gal can do with a clip and a ponytail holder. I found this tutorial for a fancy looking, but super easy hair-do over at Ma Nouvelle Mode. 2 quick braids. A little twisting and a handful of bobby pins. And voila! You are coiffed for [...]
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Grief. Sadness. I’m standing for a moment between the two today. I’m a pair of shoes in a muddy bank. Messy and stuck. For a moment. Waiting for the pressure to release. I have the privelege of spending my days working on behalf of those who are HIV positive. Today, I listened to someone share [...]
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Yesterday was Mother’s Day. Which is good. I had 24 hours to bask in the child who summoned me into Motherhood. It rained. I napped. I cooked a fabulous dinner. I reminsced about the Girl Wonder’s early years. Before she could talk in complete sentences. When she wouldn’t walk anywhere without holding my hand. When [...]
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Mother. Such a mighty word. Apron strings. Juggling acts and dinner on the table. Take a house and build a home. Spit clean scrapes and kiss on bruises. She’s the one I came from. She’s the one who held my hand and kissed my skinned up knees.. She’s the reader of bedtime stories. She’s the [...]
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We have Mothers. Who birth us. Who feed us. Who love us and scold us and shuttle us safely from one birthday to the next. Sometimes we get to have an Other Mother. An Other Mother can’t ground you. They don’t have to worry about anyone calling DCS if they teach you how to …
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