“{A mother} discovers with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
♥
Are you or were you friends with your…
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“Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who’ll love you…
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“Writing is thinking on paper.” – William Zinsser
{Check out that pencil grip!}…
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Mom,
The other day, I walked into Big Girl’s classroom to pick her up and there you were. You were seated in one of those tiny Kindergarten chairs, clutching your big black purse, and my girl was sitting there next…
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You take notes. Real ones. Imaginary ones. You pay attention. Notice things. Connect dots. Your aim, if unconscious, is to better understand yourself, the world. Your goal, if hazy, is to prepare yourself, to stockpile information, to grow.
But one…
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Since Monday’s Happier Hour with Gretchen Rubin, I’ve been thinking a lot about happiness, what it means, what it looks like, feels like. And I’ve realized something. Being busy, busy doing things I love – writing, mothering, spending time with…
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Maybe you’ve noticed that my posts here have gotten a bit shorter? Well, they have. And there are several reasons for this. One reason, one important reason, is that my novel needs me. I know that sounds silly, maybe even…
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I learned something yesterday. Something I already knew, but seem to forget. I learned that it can be really rewarding to tell a truth. I am not talking about the truth, that elusive, Platonic thing we are all implored to…
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Today is my birthday. At 3:38 this morning, I turned 34. Not young. Not old.
Today is my birthday. And I will spend it doing the things I love: drinking coffee, writing words, wrangling girls, talking and laughing with people…
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Okay. So it’s officially official: I love doing these Friday Loves. I’m not sure why. It’s something about the show and tell, the sharing and caring, the hunting and gathering, the reveling in things silly and serious, goodies physical and…
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