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Category Archives: Parenting

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.

Life is unrecognizable. Our kids are e-learning and we’re isolated but still go shopping for toilet paper because people who realized this epidemic panic (pandemic, anybody?) would be a thing early on decided toilet paper was the item to stock up on. There’s a lot more missing than just toilet paper, but toilet paper seems […]

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We’ve all heard stories about wishes coming true leading to misfortune and doom. But what if we wish for something to happen in the future? If there’s no monkey’s paw involved, we can at least hope, right? This week’s Finish the Sentence Friday prompt is “If I could have a conversation with anybody, it’d be…” […]

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There’s power and danger in asking “What if?” More danger than power I think, although power comes with knowing we can’t take back past decisions. Power’s gained in growing through choices we regret and found in adapting to a normal we never imagined.  Tonight’s post is a re-write of Life’s Turning Points, a post I […]

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My middle school had a Valentine’s Day flower-gram fundraiser. For $1, you could buy a pink or red carnation and have it delivered to any kid in school. You could sign your name, or send them anonymously. Popular girls flounced down hallways carrying handfuls, giggling and squeeing “I have no idea who they’re all from!”  […]

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When I started Finding Ninee, I was lonely, worried, and confused. In response to writing a bunch of words, Googling “How to publish a memoir,” and reading that publishers would rather shave a cat than read another memoir, I thought “I’ll just blog!” I looked up “How to start a blog,” bought a domain name, […]

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I’d forgotten how much I love driving. Often, I avoid going places at all. But sometimes? Being on the road when the sun hints the end of the day is near, the world feels like endless possibilities. These moments make me feel as if we can each go anywhere. Driving on a road becomes a […]

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