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Remember When I Used To Write?
I remember once, when I was visiting my hometown — I don’t recall which phase of my nomadic life I was in, so I don’t know if I was home from Waco, Nashville, Spain, Mesquite or seclusion — and I was walking into Wal Mart with my Dad, and whatever the topic was, I said…
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Metamorphosis
March 6, 2014 I’m putting myself out there by taking myself away. When I used to blog often, I was single, and I was searching for ways to fill my time — work, friends, family, movies, events, travel — and after I got married and was fully immersed in graduate school, motherhood, work, etc., my…
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Holidays & Mayhem
We bring it on ourselves, you know. I keep seeing all these panic-stricken messages about last-minute holiday shopping and wrapping and shipping and over-spending. Why do we do it? Is it unfiltered social learning? Well-formed habit? Is it others-centered? Or is it the ultimate self-centeredness? Of course, giving a gift out of the kindness of…
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5 Minute Friday : Growing
The clock is ticking. The word for the day is “growing.” Growing is going on all around me. My pants are growing too large for me. My son is growing at an alarming rate — he is 26 months old, and I swear, he is almost the entire length of his toddler bed. We will…
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The Help
Sometime last year, I started reading Kathryn Stockett’s novel, The Help after learning that my friend Candis had read it in two days and loved it. Although I tried desperately to keep art in my life in the exhausting year after my son was born, also working full time and going to graduate school a couple…
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Mother Nurture
On this, the two year anniversary of my precious child’s birth, I came across this website called Nurture Mom. At first glance, it seems amazing. The process of being pregnant, birthing, breastfeeding, and raising a child thus far have really impacted me, mostly resulting in the positive because my son is becoming an amazing person.…
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Violent video games and morality « God Issues
Violent video games and morality « God Issues.
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Content, Timing of TV Can Take Toll on Kids’ Sleep – US News and World Report
Content, Timing of TV Can Take Toll on Kids’ Sleep – US News and World Report.
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>This time a year ago
> Atticus June/July I cannot believe this little punkin is about to be two years old, or as he would say, in answer to your question, “I’m almost TWO!” What a journey he has taken me on over the past two years. Although he has been the easiest child in the world to care for…
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