Apologies and Christmas Thoughts

I haven’t written much lately. I feel I owe an apology to my few but loyal readers. Or an explanation. Only there isn’t a good one. It is more an array of reasons.
First, I have to admit I’ve been a bit petrified by Coco’s nomination for Julie Pippert’s December Class of Amazing New Blogs. While [...]

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Three Good Things

Recently, fellow blogger Coco wrote a lovely post, describing three things she liked about herself. Any reader of that post could consider themselves tagged to do the same. The challenge in writing these three good things is the focus on the “good”. Being prone to self-deprecation and constant disclaimers, I thought this [...]

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Late Night Thoughts

It’s late. The house is dark. My two loves are sleeping in the next room. When they slumber, it is astounding how much they look alike. Father and son.
I lie awake in bed, looking at them, one on each side of me.
The Rebel is curled up with one too many pillows, bound [...]

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Here He Is Again

The Monster has reared his ugly head again.
No matter how much I try to keep him out of my life, every so often my father manages to let me know he is watching. He keeps track. He knows about me, mine and our life.
My husband and I have an online family journal with [...]

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Anonymity

The Rebel and I have the kind of marriage where there are no secrets. I trust him completely, wholeheartedly. And I tell him the truth about everything, sometimes candidly so, omitting nothing aside simply from those things I forget. With this blog, however, I have backed myself into a corner and created [...]

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Home Is Where The Heart Is

I’ve been out of town, visiting my family. I’ve taken my little Angel with me while his daddy is busy working. We miss him.
Home. I guess that’s what you would call this place I’ve been visiting, though I am confused over the concept these days. This town is home to many [...]

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When Two Worlds Collide

It is both fascinating and terrifying to accept that I have married a man similar to my father. When I realized this a few months into our marriage, I panicked. Suddenly, all I could see was every attribute that my Rebel shared with the Monster. Every similarity glared at me, so obvious [...]

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Getting Started

Here I am. “Trying to sort through my baggage and make sense of it all with a little blog therapy”. That is my intro line and the gist of this whole thing.
I am a soon-to-be-thirty-something girl. Mother to a little Angel. Wife to a passionate Rebel with many causes. Stay-at-home-mom [...]

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