It’s the first day of NaBloPoMo for July and the theme is Kids. One of the main reasons I signed up to participate this time around is that I really like the prompts that Melissa Ford came up with and am excited to write about many of them. Since we don’t get prompts for the weekend days (and I likely […]
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How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the sixth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In 2011 I lost two loved ones to suicide. I realize that there is likely nothing I could have […]
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Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the twentieth 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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I wonder how many people pause, like I do, every time someone asks me how many children I have? It should be a simple question, with an easy answer. But that isn’t the case when you have lost a child or have struggled with secondary infertility, then such questions can be painful to hear and […]
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This morning after I finished teaching my Yoga Sculpt class, I picked up Abby from the childcare room and headed to our car. I got her buckled in her car seat and found a toy for her to play with on the way home. Then I got into the driver’s seat, buckled my seat belt, […]
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I am excited to share with you my first attempt at writing a sestina style poem. Though I have played around with poetry a bit in the past (mostly limericks and another one that I am very proud of), I don’t think I have tried to write fixed form since high school and I know that I […]
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