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Write the Journey · 1Y ago

I’m the Guest Blogger at Imp3Rfect Mom

My daughter has a sticker chart on the fridge that says, in her seven-year-old mix of capital and lower-case letters, “I was nice in the morning and controlled my anger!” The exclamation mark is dotted with a star. Then there are ten hand-drawn squares, with shiny stickers in several of them. If all
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Write the Journey · 1Y ago

I’m the Guest Blogger at Motherlogue

At age thirteen I was a die-hard All My Children fan. People in my suburban hometown knew that Laurence Lau, the actor who played Greg Nelson (remember Greg and Jenny?), had a brother who worked the butcher’s counter at the corner grocery in my neighborhood. Word got around that Lau would be making
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Write the Journey · 1Y ago

Sunshine

  Usually I write at my desk, but I couldn’t resist the light in the family room today. Filed under: Writing
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Write the Journey · 1Y ago

Will Work for Aloe Vera

A friend in my writing group made a suggestion a few weeks ago (she got the idea here): Pick three very simple goals for the week, related to writing or not, and give yourself a deadline. Then, pick a salary. Something small, like a plant for the garden or a favorite decadence (any Theo milk [...]
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Write the Journey · 1Y ago

Follow the Reluctance

A few weeks ago I sat at a folding table in the dining hall of a conference center, sipped at a mug of tea and had a full, uninterrupted conversation. Someone had convinced us to go on the annual church retreat. This meant painting and hikes for the kids (child care) and freedom from the [...]
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Write the Journey · 1Y ago

Movie Night = Mean Night?

Every Friday we settle in on the futon with a bowl of popcorn or ice cream and watch a video with the kids. This is “movie night,” which is really a 30- or 40-minute video or portion of a feature length movie. (We’re not sitting in front of the tube for a full 90 minutes [...]
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Write the Journey · 1Y ago

Girls’ Weekend

A few weekends ago I stole away with my favorite girl. The one whose teeth are dropping out. The one who wears jeans that float up past her ankles. The one who corrects me when I say she’ll be in first grade in the fall. “I already am in first grade.” The one who thinks [...]
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Write the Journey · 1Y ago

Troy Davis in court today

For those of you following the case, Troy Davis is in court in Savannah today. Listen to the NPR story here. The Savannah Morning News story is here. Photo courtesy of javacolleen (Creative Commons). Filed under: Politics Tagged: Death Penalty
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Write the Journey · 1Y ago

The Gym Archive

There are two things I need to do more: work out and blog. Yesterday, after my first workout in quite awhile, I thought, why not combine the two? So, I bring you the first (and perhaps only) edition of The Gym Archive. At the Y where I work out, there are metal racks attached to [...]
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Write the Journey · 1Y ago

Aid Flotilla

Just two days ago, this article noted irony in the fact that “a quarter of Israel’s Navy has been mobilized to ensure the aid flotilla does not get through.” In 1947, a similar group of ships bound for Israel was raided. Three were killed, many wounded. But the occupants of the ships were Holocaust
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