Category: inspiration
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Birthday Day
Today has been great. I am thoroughly enjoying today. My family has been awesome and is making sure I am having a wonderful day. My parents called and left a fun voicemail message singing happy birthday and then singing/arguing who loves me more. It’s really cute and I really liked it. I am going to…
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Honoring Grandmothers
As a kid, I loved my birthday up until I was about 8 or 9. I can’t exactly explain what happened, but I think it had to do with being old enough to realize what was going on. Like I was suddenly aware of how I was being treated. My birthday became a day I…
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Conversations with Boy #3
I finally told Boy #3 all about me. My mind is blown. First I told him that I was going to change my name soon. Then we talked about how the doctor asked him at his last appointment if he identifies as a boy. I asked him if he knew why she asked him that…
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A little experiment
For years I wanted to write a blog but I was scared of my own voice. Sometimes I would post something remotely controversial on my FB page, like the time I said for everyone to understand that representation matters when our VP was sworn in. Immediately old military co-workers jumped on it, saying things like…
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Daily Prompt 2/6/23
How does death change your perspective? Wow, this here is a deep one. As usual, I have questions. Whose death? How old am I and what stage of life am I in? Because it honestly depends on all of these things. My grandfather died when I was five and it did not change anything for…
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Name Change
I’ve been ready to change my name since I was four years old. Once I was strong enough to move my furniture around my room, I used to hide behind my dresser and write my chosen name in crayon on the back of my dresser. I would write Timmy or Sylvester over and over. I…
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What now?
I feel something stirring inside of me. Something I am meant to be doing. Sometimes it feels demanding, like I am running out of time to do whatever this is. Other times it feels like I need to just slow down and listen, learn what this calling is about. I have tried on so many…
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A Break
I took a few days off of writing. Things got busy here with needing to head back to Kentucky to pick up the kids, we got in late after that, and today is the first day of regular life in 2023 for us. I spent a lot of that time away thinking deeply about everything…
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The Year of 2022…
I cannot believe this is the last day of 2022. The last almost three years have been crazy for me, and not just because of the pandemic. We’ve all been through some insane times these last three years with that, even when things have gotten better. Remembering those early days of the pandemic when everyone…
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Daily Prompt 12/12
Who do you envy? This is a shitty question, honestly. This is one of the seven deadly sins, right? I think envy is something that holds you back from living your best life. If someone has something you want, or an attribute you would like to have, you should find yourself inspired by them and…
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