Five Minute Friday: Good-Bye

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Around here we write for five minutes flat on Fridays. We set a timer, throw caution to the winds and try to remember what it was like to just write without worrying if it’s just right or not. Want to play Five Minute Friday? It’s easy peasy! 1. Write for 5 minutes flat on the [...]

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Because sometimes reading someone else’s story can be like coming home

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We are the sum total of our stories. So when we sit down at the computer and open a vein we offer life to someone else. We pour out what we’ve learned or failed to learn as a lifeline to someone else. We offer our stories across computer screens, transfusion-like. On Wednesday morning I re-live [...]

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In which I podcast about crushed Cheerios, my middle name and Downton Abbey

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Remember that one time I told you I was going to do a podcast with Tsh from Simple Mom? And you all sent fun question ideas? Well, it happened and you can listen along with us as I talk about my middle name, why I don’t think I’m cool enough to be a “Rachel” and [...]

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Sometimes our kids don’t need us to teach, but to listen

February 29, 2012

{This started out as a Five Minute Friday post. I liked it. And then I wanted to edit it a bit. And finish it. So I did.} He holds his heart as we wait at the red line in the immigration queue. His face has a puzzled look. Passports slide back our way and we [...]

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Your house is only as big as your hospitality

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I am a reluctant renter. Have been for years. Our house is small, it has faux bricks that constantly fall off the kitchen walls and carpets that, well, let’s just say we have three kids under the age of six and leave the rest up to your imagination. For years my small house has stunted [...]

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A transcontinental wedding wish for my brother & new sister-in-law

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{My oldest little brother got married this weekend. In South Africa. I wasn’t there. But I was. Because words have wings and love can span oceans.} Joshua, I don’t know if you’ve ever been my little brother. You’ve always been the rock, the hug, the guy that knows how to comfort his sister when her [...]

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Five Minute Friday: Grow

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On Fridays around these parts we stop, drop, and write. For fun, for love of the sound of words, for play, for delight, for joy and celebration at the art of communication. For only five short, bold, beautiful minutes. Unscripted and unedited. We just write without worrying if it’s just right or not. Won’t you [...]

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For when you want to catch a moment

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So my dad’s text messages wend their way to me from the Southern Hemisphere and I plaster them – band aid like – across my heart. It’s been two months since we were with them and already the photos we’ve printed and plastered across the boys’ bedroom walls are wrinkled from all the telling and [...]

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What women {in real life} can do for your soul

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When peace, like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say, It is well, it is well, with my soul. ~Horatio G. Spafford My mom chose that hymn for her funeral. It was her prayer for those of us left behind. And as [...]

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One way to quiet the nagging voice of mother guilt

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Sometimes the specter of mother guilt chases so hard after us it’s hard to hear anything else. It’s always there nipping at our heels, whispering in our ears, weaseling into our heads. Right when we think the day’s gone well, it slips into bed next to us and reminds us of all we could have [...]

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