Coping

How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the ninth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. September was a whirlwind for me and my family — from the Chicago Teachers Union Strike to planning and pulling […]

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and I have three children. At our first MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) meeting of the school year tonight we made reusable name tags. This is a picture of mine. It was a fun and relaxing craft to do while chatting with old and new friends about our summers, our families and why we decided to […]

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It’s Thursday! Which means it my day to write about this week’s prompt over at The Today Voice. I know it has been a busy week when the last post on my blog was another “Thursday’s Voice” one and both that and this one are linking to writing that I did elsewhere. Between Sean having been […]

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It’s Thursday! Which means it my day to write about this week’s prompt over at The Today Voice. Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm since we launched our new writing project in July. I especially appreciate those of you have taken time to comment on my posts over there and share your thoughts on the prompts […]

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Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the twenty-first installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here to participate […]

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Awhile back I shared about some of the “places” I go when I need a vacation (sometimes physically and more often mentally). Over the past week I got to spend time with my family in a magical place in Michigan that holds many special childhood memories for my husband. We rode bikes, jet skis, speed boats, […]

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