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Archive for January, 2007

Setting Roots

In this season, against all that I’ve become, it is my responsibility to teach my children how to put down roots in one place. Some people probably think… so what’s the big deal?
Well, for fifteen years of my marriage it was our season to move. My responsibility was not to show my children how to [...]

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Late night

Why am I doing this? I wonder if I have some deep-seated desire to be a writer. Or maybe this is just my way of dealing with my mother never listening to me when I was growing up. Here in the blog world I can pretend that tons of people are listening to me. Even [...]

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"Mommy, I want to be myself"

Said to me as we were falling asleep last night. Huh? Well, if you aren’t yourself then who are you? Fortunately, I didn’t say that out loud and ruin the moment.
“You make me dress up all fancy whenever we go anywhere.”
Flower Child wants to wear whatever clothes she wants. She doesn’t care if [...]

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How do they do it?

Those folks who can crank out amusing or thought provoking blogs every day… how do they do it? I can think deep thought late at night, just as I’m about to fall asleep, but there’s no way I can remember them in the morning. I can only remember this vague thought that I was supposed [...]

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Aspirations for 2007

I have decided to go ahead and write out my aspirations for this year. The more that I’ve thought about this, the more I’ve been reminded that people who actually write down their goals are far more likely to keep them. This also would have value because if we get caught up in another crisis, [...]

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