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The Question
Read more: The QuestionI took Baby to get his hair cut. I think he has grown taller since you left. The hairdresser couldn’t believe he was only thirteen years old. Since we were there, I checked to see if they could squeeze me in. It has been at least two years since I had a professional haircut. They…
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My Highest Honor and Deepest Heart Ache…A Eulogy
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Read more: My Highest Honor and Deepest Heart Ache…A EulogyThe silence stings. Absence is all I hear…Your laughter no longer reverberates through the house.For now, it only whispers in my heart and I long with all my beingto hear more, louder, explosive you.The chaos is gone. Yet you remain The beautiful fractals of excitement, impatience, joy, and love are flat and cold.Normal is abnormal…
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Left
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Read more: LeftI confess. I lost myself for a while. When someone would ask how I was I would begin speaking about how the boys were or my mom or my husband. I have one friend who would always stop me and ask, “but how are YOU?” I never really knew how to answer that question. I…
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Three Minutes
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Read more: Three MinutesI’ve been thinking a lot about grace, mercy, and forgiveness lately. Last week I got a phone call disguised as my worst nightmare as the parent of a non verbal child with special needs. The voice on the other end used words… Adult protective services…Complaint of neglect…Investigating whether substantial…An incident on May 3… A person…
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Perseverance
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Read more: PerseverancePerseverance: continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition. Today is a date of remembrance for me and my children. It is a date that has lost power over the last 13 years but will remain, for the rest of our lives, as a date of life altering, horrific, and traumatic…
Patience to Endure 