Category: Raw
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Excuse me, sir
Since my surgery, I have been venturing out slowly and steadily. This past weekend I had to go to the pet store to grab some hay for the guinea pig. It was later in the evening than I’ve usually gone there, so I felt a little bit of familiar worry about being out after dark.…
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Shaking off Judgment
For once in my life, I am not worried about what others think of me. I have finally reached a place where I no longer rush to judge others. I find that in “real-life” outside of the military culture I existed in for over 20 years, it’s so much easier to not judge others. The…
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Daily Prompt 12/1/23
I’m not vegan or vegetarian, so I do eat meat. I don’t view eating meat as some kind of weird flex either. I can’t stand seeing people act like they’re asserting some kind of dominance over animals by eating meat. That being said, I don’t enjoy eating red meat all the time. I know some…
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Rounding out November in STYLE
It’s been a rough week in our house. Thanksgiving Day was a marvelous feast thanks to my wife’s amazing cooking. We relaxed, watched the parade in the morning, and I was on top of the clean up all afternoon. We were ahead and everything went really well. Then Friday happened…My wife and Girl set out…
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Household Labor
I started watching this documentary about the division of household labor and how men tend to overestimate their contribution while women underestimate how much they do. It pissed me off for a ton of reasons, but mostly because I’ve seen it exactly as described as a child and as an adult. I’ve lived it from…
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Handling Boy #1
Boy #1 is struggling. He’s with his friend, trying to live on their own in an apartment, getting VA Ch 35 money, going to school full time, and getting jobs. They’ve been on this journey since August. It took us until October to get the VA money flowing. And it’s not the right amount. He’s…
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Daily Prompt 11/20/23
I would meet George Washington. I have so many questions for him. How did you handle all the conflicting opinions and how hard was it for you to go against the British? Did you have any moral concerns about not respecting authority or did you feel it was justified because of taxes? I would ask…
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Looking down, backwards, and at the mirror
I am still so unbelievably happy with my surgery results. Other than some stubborn swelling, which I understand will go down eventually and is totally normal, everything is going really well with recovery. I am still not to lift anything over 10 lbs and I need to be careful with how much I extend my…
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Emotional Labor
Today is Boy #3’s 13th birthday. Since this is the first birthday since the divorce that the ex is in town, there were some new considerations to think about. Boy #3 wanted to invite the ex over for dinner and cake but that wasn’t really what we wanted to do. Since the divorce, the ex…