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A turret and some (alone) time

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Living Authentically, Writing & Career, tagged , , , on November 15, 2011 | 12 Comments »

I’m sitting in my new Writer’s Turret, as I am calling it. It’s actually just a small room we recently created by putting up a dividing wall in our son’s large bedroom. It is a north-facing room and I was concerned that I would feel the lack of light. But with my desk directly next [...]

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We plan. Life laughs.

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Life, Home & Community, Thinking Positively, tagged , , , on January 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Well, here we are. Five days into 2011 and I am finally getting to my computer. I had big plans. My goals for work, school, housework, and this blog were all spelled out in my January 1 journal entry. I had my running shoes on and I was just waiting for the starting gun, i.e. [...]

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Recycling my babble for Earth Day

Posted in Writing & Career, tagged , , on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In honor of Earth Day I am going to do some recycling. Not my #2 plastics – I do that everyday (unless there’s too much gooey peanut butter stuck and then the jar sits on my counter “soaking” for a few weeks until I get sick of it and just chuck it. So sue me.) [...]

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Gratitude, even while leaning over the bowl

Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Thinking Positively, tagged , , , on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I believe in gratitude. I try to be thankful for everything, to find something to be thankful for even in the midst of a blitz of ugh. I won’t deny this is very hard for me. I love to complain. Love it! Too cold, too humid, too hungry, too tired, too poor, too, too, too. [...]

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Saying goodbye

Posted in Life, Home & Community, tagged , on October 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Today I took down the crib that cradled my two children through nights and naps from infancy into their toddler years. And today I cried. It’s not that I want another baby. It’s not that I’m attached to the 3rd-hand crib or the space it was taking up in the kids’ room. It isn’t even [...]

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Squeezing me in between

Posted in Living Authentically, Writing & Career, tagged , , on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The honeymoon’s over. Me and this blog, we don’t talk so much anymore. My life has radically changed from when I was a stay-at-home, wannabe writer. Even though the last of those days are barely a month gone, I have already made them into golden nuggets. I catch myself thinking, remember when I could put [...]

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The Sound of Silence

Posted in Life, Home & Community, tagged , on September 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

It’s 6AM and I’ve been awake since 4. Ike (Tropical Storm Ike, that is) has been blustering around the house all night, licking us with hot, sticky tropical winds. It’s 6AM and almost 80 degrees outside… in Vermont… in September! It’ll probably snow next week. Once in a while I don’t mind not being able [...]

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The many hats of me

Posted in It's all About Me, tagged , , , on August 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I need a haircut. The shaggy, steel wool mop that haloes my head is reflected in the screen of my laptop as I sit on the deck this glorious late summer morning. I also need to finish organizing the new office which until 3 days ago was the kids room. Boxes of books, old files, [...]

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September Sentiments

Posted in Life, Home & Community, tagged , , on August 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »

September has always been my favorite month. It is a month of beginnings. I came into the world in September and as a child in England, it meant the beginning of a new school year. I actually turned 5 on my second day in Mrs. Goddard’s class at Huish Infant School, Yeovil, Somerset. I have [...]

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Booster seats and belly buttons

Posted in Life, Home & Community, tagged on August 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Now’s this for a bad day? I almost get the cops called on me and my daughter could have gotten lyme disease. With one minute remaining to get to daycare on time I discover the only thing filling the space where H’s booster seat usually sits is a smorgasbord of crumbs, small toys, and juice [...]

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