Category: Slice of Life
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Hitting the Send Button
I thought I had it under control. I thought I knew how to make sure it wouldn’t become an issue. But now I sit and know it isn’t true. I stare at a finished article. One part of my brain says, “Get your email ready, attach the file and hit send.” The other part says,…
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Baby Showers and Ventilators
“Oh, you won’t be at her baby shower?” the secretary asked me with a curious expression. I wanted to scream. Had she not read the company-wide email that my infant son had died shortly after birth? Had she forgotten that everyone in the offices should have known about our son’s severe problems? Had she not…
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Playing in the Dirt
I should have been working on paperwork or the pile of dishes. Instead I found myself in the midst of my flower bed. Instead of wearing my usual grubby flower bed cleaning clothes, I was wearing my jeans with a black belt, my little cute black shoes and a nice t-shirt. What was I thinking?!!?…
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Thorns and Scars
I have a thorn in my foot. I know it can’t be big. It is from the bushes in my front yard. The ones that we have been talking about pulling out for years. They line the sidewalk to our front door. Five of them that came with the house. They are the ones my…
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Simple Spaghetti
She made a simple spaghetti. Noodles and V8 juice. Yep. Just noodles and V8 juice. I still remember sitting at her dining room table. Slurping. Laughing. Eating. I make a more involved spaghetti. Whole wheat noodles. Pasta sauce. Ground beef. Mushrooms. Garlic. Seasoning. My boys sit at my table. They slurp. They laugh. They eat.…
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Siblings who Create
I create with words. My sister creates with fabrics. My brother creates with photographs. We are siblings who create. It has been a long week here at my house. While I wish I had more time to write some deep insightful posts, my brain is begging me for short snippets of life. I’m attempting to…
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The Word Count
Today I submit an article to a client. One of my favorite parts of the writing process is watching the number of words change until I meet the word count limit. I thought I would share my word count process from this article. The words are from 4 sources, 29 single pages of handwritten notes from the…
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An (Athletic) Fraud
I feel like a fraud. An athletic fraud. I am wearing a shirt that says“I tri like a girl so tri to keep up” on the front. On the back, it says “fast.” I’ve competed in two triathlons. The first as a part of a relay team where I swam. The second all by myself:…
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Random Thoughts
Here are some of the random thoughts that went through my head Monday morning into early afternoon. I was going to continue through the afternoon and evening, but I didn’t realize how many random thoughts quickly go through my head! I really should get up. I’m so spoiled with sleeping in on days like this.…
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A List of Middles
We are a family of four. Two adults. Two children. Well sometimes one adult and three children. 😉 Our kitchen table has six chairs. Three on one side. Three on the other side. Two middles. My sons fight over the middle chair on one of the sides. They run to the table and almost dive…