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Learning To Forgive, Update #2
AGENDA ITEM #1: FINALLY FORGIVE OLD SLIGHTS The set-up: I think I’ve moved on. But when the person’s name comes up or I’m reminded of how I’ve been hurt by anyone, in any way, at anytime, my anger flashes. What’s that Oprah says? Not forgiving someone is like taking poison and expecting the other person…Continue Reading
Being A Better Person: Learning to Forgive Update #1
This is part 1. AGENDA ITEM #1: FORGIVE (UPDATE) Well, this first agenda item is going OK. I spent a lot of my Road to Oprah time working primarily on forgiveness for my mom. I think that one’s the jim dandy and if I can forgive that, then the rest will come…Continue Reading
Unicorn U.
This morning, my daughter tells me, “I really, really, really want to be a policeman.” Thinking this sounds like something she’s really thought over, and not wanting to discourage her from the dream, I say, “Yeah?” “Yes,” she answered resolutely. “Or a unicorn.”
This Will Be A Serious One
In September of 2007, my sister underwent an emergency c-section and subsequently gave birth to her beautiful daughter, Katelyn. Katelyn was born at just over 23 weeks, far far away from her due date of January 14, 2008. At birth, Katelyn weighed a tiny 1 lb., 3 ozs. and was barely 11 inches long. …Continue Reading
If Only a Picture Could Hack, Cough and Spit
There’s no picture today because this post is about my neighbor, who is so close that if he had a telephoto lens, he could see what I was writing right now. (In fact, he doesn’t even need a telephoto lens, he just needs eyes.) In truth, I did try to snap a picture…Continue Reading
Best Song Ever (For now)
Answer by Sarah McLachlan is simply the most lovely song I’ve ever heard. Makes me cry every single time. I would play this at someone I love’s funeral. (I just blew the vibe, didn’t I?)
Living, and Dying
TO ANGIE And this is the way you tell me you’ve grown tired and I say you’ve been tired all along I tell you I won’t light your stone avenues, point at landmarks unseen, or the map still folded I rise against your close-eyed sickness not by closing, but not stopping to look…Continue Reading
Sweet Like Sugar
SWEETIE PIE (written for my daughter, Alexa) How do you make a sweetie pie Is it something you can bake? Are there special things that go in it Do you frost it like a cake? What are the ingredients That make it taste so sweet? I imagine there’s no dirt or…Continue Reading
Monkey On My Back: The Continuation
I am strong, like a Powerpuff Girl. Except I’m not a kindergartner. But that’s open for debate. Read Part I first here. The anxiety: it’s overwhelmed me, made me laugh, ruined relationships, made friendships, and inspired my writing. It’s funny, really, that this is one of the first times that I’ve called it…Continue Reading
Momma Love
I have a lot of kid’s books. This one is my favorite of all time. It’s silly (as the title so helpfully suggests) but not in that annoying way, maybe like, say, Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? read 100 times at breakneck speed. I could read The Seven Silly Eaters again and again and…Continue Reading
Super Pour Sunday
These are the kinds of days I love. It’s the Chicagoan in me, I think. (Although I’m betting Chicagoan’s don’t like these kind of days.) I’ve always run melancholic, so these scenes give me the atmosphere to match my mood. Super Pour, Part Deux Super Pour, The Third Installment
