I’m Still Here

November 11, 2010

I've had a really bad week.  I've been grumpy and stabby and snappy and whiny.  Just ask my husband.  I've been no fun to be around and no fun to live with.  I've been mad, some of them for justifiable reasons, and then because I just wanted to be mad. Basically I got overwhelmed, and [...]

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30 Days of Truth-Day Eight

November 4, 2010

Day 08 → Someone who made your life hell, or treated you like shit I'm cheating and sending you elsewhere.  I wrote this for Violence Unsilenced a few years ago.  It is still one of the best, hardest things I have ever written.  Especially since I told my parents about the blog days before the post [...]

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30 Days of Truth – Day Seven

November 2, 2010

Day 07 → Someone who has made your life worth living for This one could not be easier, or cheesier, but the answer is very simply my husband. Doug and I have a fantastic marriage.  We are partners in every sense.  I was very lucky in that he was my best friend even before we [...]

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30 Days of Truth-Day 6

October 27, 2010

Day 06 → Something you hope you never have to do Well, this one is a barrel of laughs, huh? I never want to bury my child.  Who does really?  I just don't know how you recover from something like that.  And the interesting thing about having an only child is that people frequently say [...]

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30 Days of Truth – Day Five

October 25, 2010

Day 05 → Something you hope to do in your life I hope, one day, to be something other than a lawyer.  I used to LOVE MY JOB.  Like all geek out, LOVE.  It was the very definition of who I was.  And then, I just kind of stopped.  And I started looking for other [...]

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30 Days of Truth-Day 4

October 21, 2010

Day 04 → Something you have to forgive someone for Man these are getting hard, can I cry uncle? We already discussed that I am not so good at forgiveness.  There are things I would like to discuss that I can't because they fall beyond the things that are blogable. So: I forgive the first [...]

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30 Days of Truth – Day Three

October 18, 2010

Day 03 → Something you have to forgive yourself for I couldn't breastfeed Michael.  I tried.  I did.  But he didn't latch and then I tried to pump and my milk never came in and I'm pretty sure I've told this story before. I actually thought I had let this go.  Michael is five and [...]

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30 Days of Truth-Day 2

October 13, 2010

Day 02 → Something you love about yourself I am a really good friend.  It is probably my best quality.  As I said in my day 1 post, I am loyal to a fault.  I will do anything for anyone, give the shirt off my back, and am unfailingly generous, with my heart, and with [...]

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30 Days of Truth – Day One

October 12, 2010

So, let's be honest here, shall we?  Lately, my blogging has been kind of off. I sense it, you sense it (at least I notice it in your comments, or lack there of) and I need a kick in the pants.  So I'm starting this 30 days of truth thing that is going around the [...]

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