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Today’s Our Land Series post was written by my friend Zoe of Rewritten. Zoe is one of those very rare blog friends who remember moments, reaches out, and privately offers encouragement and support. I admire her a lot, and appreciate her friendship so much. I’m sure I don’t do a very good job of letting […]

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This week’s Our Land Series post was written by somebody I’ve never met, but would like to. Why? Because she’s IRL (in real life) friends with my awesome friend Kenya Johnson, author of The Christopher Chronicles, and Live, Laugh, Blog (formerly known as Here’s the Thing which is sure to have a new name – same […]

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Four and a half decades ago, there was a young woman, who became pregnant, but not on purpose. She carried a baby inside of her body and inside of her heart for nine long months. She sang to that baby, she prayed for her, and, when the time came, she touched her cheek, not even […]

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I feel incredibly lucky to be able to type the words that today’s Our Land post was authored by another awesome IRL friend.  Her son Jack (not his real name) joined Tucker’s Preschool Autism Classroom more than a year ago now, I think. I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know her through play-dates, school […]

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It’s been almost four years and nine months since Tucker was born. Early on, I was fearful. Of dropping him, of not being worthy of him, that he might stop breathing, that he was too thin, that he wasn’t sleeping enough, and a thousand other things. I kept track of how often he ate, how […]

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While some goodbyes are more difficultly said than others, I’m of the opinion that all goodbyes are hard. At least, they are for me. Even in the uncomfortable situations in which I find myself counting the minutes until I’m able to leave, there’s always a final question in my mind that maybe, by leaving, I’ll […]

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