Huh. From the very moment I received my diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis I carried my illness with my identity. I am ill. I will always be ill. I am living in illness. People who do not live with something like an autoimmune disease don’t get it. They don’t understand that RA, Lupus, and Crohns are… Read More »
Circa 2001 Dear Teenage Me, If I could I would reach through space and time I’d give you a hug. While I kind of laugh at your wardrobe and foibles, or just wardrobe foibles, I like you. You didn’t do anything really wrong or embarrassing in high school. You tried to be good, you tried… Read More »
For all my opinions on undershirts and crop tops I’m not a fashion blogger. Frankly, I don’t really like the style right now, but since I pretty much buy everything second-hand I’m forced to go with the flow. Yes, I’m probably one or two seasons behind everyone but as long as I don’t look like… Read More »
I am the middle child. The oldest girl. Sandwiched between two older brothers, two younger brothers–and one sister. Six of us in all, but I held the privileged position. Because even though I had two brothers older than me, I was definitely the one in charge. I never really had reason to be jealous of… Read More »
Father’s Day is coming! I personally like Mother’s Day better, but that’s just me. I mean, guys really do have it easier when it comes to the whole “how they became a father” thing. Do I need to go into detail on that subject? No. I think not. I have some pretty cool fathers in… Read More »
Dear Chuck, Geez. You have a way of sneaking into my life. No one asked me when I was four if I was ok with you being there, and no one asked me the other day when you showed up again. It was a pretty miserable church service. It was supposed to be Celebration Sunday…a… Read More »
4.) If you had to choose a Disney princess to live the rest of your life as…which princess would you choose and why? Oooh this is fun. Especially since all I seem to ever watch are Disney princess movies. I can answer this one in a jiffy. I’d be Rapunzel. I know that you’re saying… Read More »
“So you just stand there and let him do all the work?” Those words stick in my head as the herald of last year. The man who said them has NO idea that his casual remark cost me sleep, that I agonize over my actions in light of his cruel and careless observation. We were… Read More »
It’s Thursday! That means its time for another Writer’s Workshop over at Mama’s Losin It. 1.) Happy almost Mother’s Day! Share a parenting moment where you really began to realize what this mothering thing is all about. *** Motherhood is about dishing out lots and lots of grace. It’s about pushing the restart button forty million times… Read More »
This morning, I was supposed to board a plane for New York City. My husband is there now, without me. We were to have a week together split into two parts: the first half at Yale University for a conference, and the second in the Big Apple–experiencing all of its wonder for the first time… Read More »
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