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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Sometimes we see them at the exact moment we need them… Tonight these two welcomed me at the hospital when I arrived for my perinatal bereavement support group meeting.
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Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the twenty-second 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 […]
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This weekend has been wonderful, busy and at times bittersweet for my family and me. We got to spend quality time and had a lot of fun with loved ones, some of whom we hadn’t seen in a while, at a family reunion. In light of the family reunion, we didn’t spend much time in […]
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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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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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