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What IF?
I try not to dwell on the what ifs in my life because it can lead me down a crappy road. But sometimes it’s interesting to think about how one small change early in life could’ve set me up in an entirely different way than what actually happened. One of the biggest what ifs that…
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Genealogy Breakthrough
After months of frustration with the apparent loss of my great-great grandmother to the bowels of history, I think I found a group on Facebook that can help me figure out what happened to her! It’s a group dedicated to the county where she and a lot of my other relatives lived and worked. What…
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Changes
I’ve been blogging for almost 3 months. I have noticed a lot of changes in that time. I am getting so much more comfortable with speaking up for what matters to me and figuring out who I am after a lifetime of putting on a stage production called “My life as it’s been dictated to…
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Addressing the past
So my dad and I continued on our quest to improve our relationship and bring it to a healthier place this week. The unit was on “clean fighting.” Sadly I could check off just about everything on the dirty fighting list; denial, avoidance, walking away, sarcasm, yelling, ignoring, and more. We didn’t do the activity…
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Dear World
My entire life has been shaped by the world outside of me up until recently. It’s only been within the last year that I have been able to take control of my own life and start living as I want to. I was brought up to be more concerned about what my neighbors think than…
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My doctor’s visit today
I go to an awesome doctor’s office. Last year I saw the nurse practitioner for my first appointment but a few months ago I got a call that she was leaving and would I like to see the doctor instead. I said sure, because I had heard awesome things about him. The staff there is…
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Handling what should be easy
My youngest will be 10 in December. We’ve had a couple of strange moments over the past year that I can’t really work through in my mind. It feels like something deeper is happening with her and I don’t like that she’s so quiet about it. The first instance was last December. I found a…
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Another Book to Be!
I started preparing for NaNoWriMo today. Last year I wrote a very rough draft of a book in the first half of November. I love that story still. I started to reread it a few weeks ago and it’s even better than I remember! It needs a ton of work to be a decent book…