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Parenting posts that include the touching, the embarrassing, the annoying, the typical, the atypical, the whatever. You just have to be a parent to get these.

“I hate her!” I said. “I understand that you feel like you hate her. You’re hurt,” my dad said. “I’m not hurt – I’m pissed off!” I said. “You’re also hurt,” my dad said. “And, while it feels like hating her is hurting her back, it’s only hurting you. She’s going about her life, either […]

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Do you ever wonder what life will be like in 100 years? Each week, my six-year-old boy is supposed to bring his completed homework assignment to school on Friday. The packet rides home in his backpack Monday or Tuesday, giving us plenty of time to review 14 spelling words, line up paper squares into columns of […]

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“But how is Santa going to know how to find me at Papa D’s and Meemo’s house?” he asked. When looking at Reflections on Santa, Traveling, and Christmas, I think “Crap crap crap, why did I book us on a flight to Colorado on Christmas Eve?” I thought about family, and snow, but I didn’t […]

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I want to tell you a story before I tell you about the 6 reasons why asking why is important. Each of us tells and has stories that stay. Words we hold onto when we’re frightened, hopeful, in awe, and lost. Rhymes and mantras from childhood visit us over the years. We learn new ones […]

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Do you remember my friend Ivy’s six sentence stories? I love this prompt and hope to participate more in the future. My first stories have been about a woman named Denise, and tonight, I continue with this fiction and her story. *** Squatting next to the mound that-might-be-a-grave in the fake-Prada lady’s garden thinking about past […]

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Dear Younger Me, One day, you’ll write a letter to you, now, from the perspective that comes from time. A letter to my younger self, you’ll think. Keep in mind that the person I write to will always be younger than the one on the keyboard. After all, every second, I become less young than […]

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