Are you a blogger who thinks that Linkie parties suck? That people just dump links and move on without ever reading other people’s posts? Well, when it comes to a lot of linkie parties, you’re right. This one is different though.
Finish the Sentence Friday Writing Prompt
Finish the Sentence Friday is an activity for writers and bloggers to link up with essays that finish the sentence prompt. The community of people who participate are warm, engaging and often read every single post. It’s a place where writing is celebrated, for whatever it is and never too overwhelming with hundreds of links.
The Rules:
- Anybody can join the Finish the Sentence Friday Writing Prompt, as long as the sentence is referenced. No need to begin your piece with the sentence as long as it follows the theme. We’re easy (like we were in college) that way.
- Acknowledge that your post was written for Finish the Sentence Friday and link to your hosts. I’m your host each week and feature other writers and bloggers as co-hosts. You can say “This was written for Finish the Sentence Friday hosted by Finding Ninee” with a link to https://www.findingninee.com.
- We go live at 10pm eastern every Thursday night (although we slack in the summer and skip holiday weeks). If you’re a host, please go live then. If you’re participating, go live whenever you want until the following Sunday, around noon.
- To get a shot at co-hosting, join our Facebook group, and give us some sentence ideas.
- If you’re co-hosting, I’ll IM you the special magical linkie code at some point before we’re live. You paste it into your “text editing” area of your blog (not the live mode) and you’re good. You can pre-enter your link manually by clicking on the blue button and entering your URL.
- Easy, yes? And so so worth it. I promise.
- Visit as many of the links as you can. If we get too large for this, I’ll cap it but right now, it’s a good sized group.
Below are my answers to the Finish the Sentence Friday Writing Prompt. Some, you’ll see, follow the sentence exactly. Others, I take great liberties with. If you think you’d like to join this writing prompt, please consider joining us on our Facebook page. I post the upcoming prompts and offer spots for co-hosts weekly(ish).
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The Loss of a Dog is a Real Loss
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It’s 9/11 and Our Fall Then Reminds Me of Our Fall Now
This is the worst year ever but also, we have hope Like this?TweetView full post »
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We’re Not There Yet…
In March, we were mourning a canceled Disneyland and Universal trip for spring break. “They’re saying it’ll just be aView full post »
Pandemic Burnout, Celebrating Life and Honoring Loss
Who isn’t burned out right now? If we’re not stressing about how our kids (my kid, anyway) will learn online withView full post »
Wanderlust, Traveling, and I’m Jealous of Minecraft Escapes
My son builds worlds in Minecraft and I’m jealous. He’s got this world where the non-player-charactersView full post »
Impossible Back-to-School Choices & Don’t Be Like Erica
Everything feels like a slog these days. I’d rather ignore my feelings and binge-watch Netflix instead. In years otherView full post »
August in a Pandemic – Finding Hope and Life
When I was eight or nine years old, my birthday party was horseback riding with friends before swimming at theView full post »
Love Gives Us The Hope To Imagine
When I was pregnant, I wondered what my boy would be like. Imagined what it would feel like to be a mom. It doesn’tView full post »
Celebrating 11 Years Old in a Pandemic
I don’t remember my 11th birthday in particular. It may have been lost in the years of my parents’View full post »
Calm You Shall Keep and Carry On You Must. Yes, Hmmmm. (Yoda)
I overstate the obvious when saying it’s a hard time to remain calm. I’m not brave enough to ask what *else* 2020 canView full post »
How Much Time Do We Have to Become Who We Want to Be?
How much is too much? How much is not enough? New Order sings “It’s never enough until your heart stops beating,” butView full post »
Home, Sweet, Stir-Crazy Home. Also, Use This Time to Educate Yourself on White Privilege.
Home, sweet, stir-crazy home. As Dorothy said, “There’s no place like home.” Home is ahead of us, behind us, and whereView full post »
On Being Thankful As The World Crumbles and Awakens
There’s magic in the number seven, and power in the Ten Things of Thankful blog hop’s seventh anniversary this veryView full post »
Hoping for a Weird but Wonderful Summer
Will this summer be weird? Definitely. Will it be wonderful? Here’s hoping. Now that school’s officially out, drive-byView full post »
Just Who Do You Think You Are?
I wake, thinking “just who do you think you are?” I sit with sadness as the last bits of ice in my bedside water glassView full post »
Things the World Will Appreciate More Because of the Pandemic
During this completely wacky and totally unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, people keep talking about “when things getView full post »
Five Ways To Make Mom Feel Special During COVID-19
Making mom feel special on Mother’s Day this year will be more difficult than usual due to COVID-19. You can’t take herView full post »
Corona Virus Changed Word of the Year Goals for the Worse
Almost four months ago, I chose a word of the year. I chose the word Heal. At first, I thought “Nah, tooView full post »
Everything Teenagers Need to Know
Like each of us, I suppose I was many things as a teenager. Awkward, powerful, shy, brave, and all the betweens. Oh, toView full post »
You’re a Time Traveler And You Matter Illustrated with Stupid-Looking Drawings
You’re a time traveler on a mission to travel to your past to be sure that today, you matter. As far as you know, youView full post »
Zombie Apocalypse? Not Yet, But Pretend It’s Here.
It’s March 26, 2020. If I remember the past 24 hours correctly, today’s the first official day of mandatory “shelteringView full post »
Coronavirus Apocalypse Music To Take You Away
Life is unrecognizable. Our kids are e-learning and we’re isolated but still go shopping for toilet paper becauseView full post »
If I Could Make One Wish
We’ve all heard stories about wishes coming true leading to misfortune and doom. But what if we wish forView full post »
The Power And Danger In Asking “What If?”
There’s power and danger in asking “What if?” More danger than power I think, although power comes with knowing weView full post »
Why Valentine’s Day Flower-Grams Suck
My middle school had a Valentine’s Day flower-gram fundraiser. For $1, you could buy a pink or red carnation and haveView full post »
On The Sheer Joy Of Driving A Jeep
I’d forgotten how much I love driving. Often, I avoid going places at all. But sometimes? Being on the road when theView full post »
Today Is Thursday, Which Is Confusing.
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2020 – My Word Of The Year
Turns out, there are a lot of Really Good Words. There are words so powerful and complex that they become short poemsView full post »
Finish The Sentence Friday Holiday Link Party (And Some Elf Ideas)
The holiday season is full of twinkly lights, countdowns until school’s out, and magic. It’s also hard,View full post »
How Powerful Opinions And Worldviews Change For Better
I suppose it’s possible for somebody to change her viewpoint without leaving home or meeting new people, but it’d beView full post »
On Finding Love And Laughter This Thanksgiving
As a kid, Thanksgiving meant driving from Denver to Colorado Springs to gather with my mom’s family or my dad’sView full post »
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Fearing Heights, Jumping, And Lizard Brain Love
Fearing Heights This photo makes my stomach drop. I’m terrified of heights and am pretty sure my fear hasView full post »
Speech Therapy, Halloween, And A Black Day Book Give-Away
I was going through old Halloween posts because Finish the Sentence Friday goes live in mere minutes, and I haven’tView full post »
How Road Trips Are Good For Growth
I’ve been on a lot of road trips, and am convinced they’re good for growth. Whether traveling new highways or familiarView full post »
In Death, I Hope For A Life Less Ordinary
Every now and again, I read an extraordinary obituary that makes me want to write one for myself, but this idea kindaView full post »
Better Opportunities, But A Worse Planet
I stand, washing out an empty bottle of hot sauce to prepare it for recycling, and wonder how clean it actually needsView full post »
The Fall Season Of Life Is Your New Beginning
I wonder whether I’m in the Fall Season of my life, but don’t Google it as I don’t want to know-know. If life = 100View full post »
A Profound Sense Of Honor
The first time I held my son, I felt a profound sense of honor. I was terrified, of course, and starving, as I hadn’tView full post »
Fight For The Right To Get Special Ed Support
Some days, I don’t feel like I have a lot of fight left in me. I’m tired, overwhelmed, and it’s hard to know how muchView full post »
Waiting On A Loved One Is Terrifying
Today, we waited. I’m the opposite of good and patient when it comes to waiting for big things. For anything, really.View full post »
Two Days Of School, Two Broken Bones, And Two Wishes
The first day back to school means a fresh start, sharp pencils, and the promise of leaves crunching underfoot inView full post »
Tiny And Big Ways To Be An Almost Hero
Now and again, each of us is a hero. It’s in small, in-the-moment acts, like paying for a person behind us in line.View full post »
How To Feel Vast And Connected To Everything
There are places on earth and moments in time when you know you’re part of everything. You feel life as it is now, asView full post »
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Child Love, Grownup Love, and Love In The Multiverse
Child Love As a child, love is rocking to sleep after hearing your favorite story one-more-time. You don’t realizeView full post »
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Standing On Top Of The World Is Power
Most weeks, I don’t do enough to feel empowered. I’m working, momming, putting away dishes or toys or whatever, andView full post »
They Are All Happening – Love, Terror, Bliss, Sorrow
The image of the father and daughter who drowned trying to enter the United States is constantly in my thoughts. I’mView full post »
Magic, Huge Milestones, And Disappointing Sea Monkey Myths
Two weeks from now, we’ll celebrate the Fourth of July in the US. We’ll ooh and ahh our Independence Day,View full post »
I Want To Forget Feelings of Being Small And Afraid
You’re both heading toward the apple isle, landing at the same bin of Honey Crisps. “Sorry,” you say, folding yourView full post »
Self Love, Zoo Glory, And Being Thankful
Finding Ninee began because I’d intended to write a memoir – um, until I read an editor would rather shave a catView full post »
The Magical Promise Of Summertime and Love
While every season contains beauty and adventure, there’s something magical about summertime. I adore unstructuredView full post »
On Open Doors And Hope For An Epic Celebration
Growing up, my neighborhood was full of open doors; our kid-herd bouncing from one house to another for a bathroomView full post »
I Used To Be Invincible
I used to know everything. Or, at least, I thought I knew everything I needed to. About myself, about life. I knewView full post »
It Only Takes Six More Minutes Of Sleep
It’s funny how sleep is both endless and a finger-snap* in time. On endless-feeling nights, I know I must be resting,View full post »
What I Love About Being Me
“What do I love about myself?” I ask. The devil on my shoulder is quick to answer. “NOTHING. You’re mean to you andView full post »
Vivid Moments, Dreams, And The Stress Between
While I don’t remember the year, I remember waking up ecstatic. In my dream, I could hear my son speak. I turned to myView full post »
Wake Up, America. Parents Are Afraid, And It’s Bullshit.
My first thought upon seeing my son’s classroom at his new school wasn’t marveling at how far portable classrooms haveView full post »
Stories Shape Us, Make Us, And Are One Of The Best Parts Of Life
Random stories and the images they bring come to me often. I’ve written about the now-horrifying book Brave Mr.View full post »
The Best Vacation Memories Heal Your Tired Soul
Ah, vacations. We smile at memories of laughter, shared meals, soft beaches, and fireworks. Long, boring car ridesView full post »
The Up and Down of Memories and Motherhood
It was Easter Sunday, and I was eight years old. We’d moved into a new house that summer, and winter came before weView full post »
How I’m Learning To Be Better Everyway
It was sunny and almost 60 degrees outside when I got an email from school saying there’d be no school the followingView full post »
The Best Shows To Binge Watch
My favorite way to relax is sitting on a beach, but that’s not always an option. I enjoy being in the mountains, butView full post »
How To Best Fill Tomorrow’s Blank Page
One random day, I didn’t want to go to school. I can’t remember how old I was but think I was eight or nine. Close toView full post »
10 Ways To Be A Better Human
When it comes to life hacks as far as food preservation, decorating, or Lego storage, I’m not the best go-to person.View full post »
Stupid Things We Think of on the Last Day of Life as we Know It
I can’t remember whether it was a kinder, less-humid July day in Virginia than most, but I don’t remember beingView full post »
On Becoming a Mom, Life’s Passageways, and Love
There are times when I see my son playing alone and I think “I should’ve had another baby.” It hits me hard and deepView full post »
What I Hope For In 2019 But Not In A Resolution Way
Do you ever think about whether making New Year’s resolutions changes your behavior? Does writing down a fitnessView full post »
When Do Regular People Take Down Christmas Decorations?
Not to be a total bragger or anything, but it’s January 10th and my house still looks like it did on Christmas Day. AsView full post »
The End Of The Year On Hairstyles, Memories, and Time Flying
A year. So long to wait for, and yet so brief in hindsight. We feel the same as we did 365 days ago while alsoView full post »
On Holidays and Family – The Love and The Suckiness
Every family tells stories each time they gather. They laugh over memories and moments. They remember the year yourView full post »
Magic Lost and Found: Christmas Then vs. Christmas Now
There isn’t a particular holiday gift I got as a child that stands out in memory as being the best. None have becomeView full post »
How I Lost to Elf on the Shelf after Years of Winning
I’ll come right out and say it. I gave up some personal dignity last night. Heartfelt integrity even —View full post »
Stupid Ideas Can Be Good so Follow Your Dreams!
Although we’re familiar with the expression “there are no dumb ideas,” let’s face it. There areView full post »
Thankful for Wrinkles, Popsicle Sticks, and a Tutor who Cares
Thanksgiving feels early this year but I’m most likely just behind. Sometimes, you can hear time passing in calendarView full post »
Ten Things I’m Looking Forward To (Also, Who’s Right, Me or Robert?)
I’m in the time-warp stage of looking forward and looking back. I miss Tucker’s younger years, while I’m amazed by himView full post »
As The Days Grow Darker, We Are Each Small and Grand
My footsteps crunch in the snow, causing the only noise around. I breathe in. Out. Find myself standing on and of theView full post »
Be Beautiful, Be Yourself Was Humanity at its Very Best
There’s ugliness in the world. Ugliness in people; those who turn their backs on and mistreat others seeking asylumView full post »
Winning Halloween and You’re Jealous I’m Dining with an Avenger for Down Syndrome Research!
I used to think people who totally geeked out over Halloween were weird, but I’ve become one of them. I’m not sureView full post »
Ten Photos of Daily and Occasionally Spectacular Life
For this week’s Finish the Sentence Friday, Kenya suggested sharing 10 photos from our phones, which I thoughtView full post »
Special Ed Support Problems, Some People Suck, & Changes I Want
I wish schools (and life) had every child’s best interests in mind, but they’re limited by staffing inadequacies andView full post »
A Boy And His Dog: A Love Story
Years ago, when Chief and I found one another, he was about 18 months old and fully trained. The story the guy at theView full post »
On Leaving and Being Left Behind
Being Left Behind “It’s easier to leave than to be left,” I cried. Staying meant seeing the places we’d laughed in,View full post »
Seasons Change and So Do I
They say nobody really changes. In some ways, I suppose that’s true. People show us who they are and it’s important toView full post »
Being Shy is Feeling Embarrassed to be Yourself
What it Feels Like to be Shy You want the room to swallow you. You’re not good enough, smart enough, pretty enough.View full post »
This Aging Thing Ain’t a Joke, Friends
If you’re friends with me on Facebook, you might know I just had a birthday. A big one. I’m in denialView full post »
Moving Messes, a Party, and a Soon-to-be-Epic Box Fort
It’s 7:13 pm and I’m looking for a photo to share for a blog post that goes live in 47 minutes. I really need to getView full post »
Grandparents Are More Interesting When You’re a Parent
Sometimes, when you hear stories about a grandparent when you’re young, you tune them out, and only remember parts.View full post »
Ten Things Not To Waste Time Worrying About
Unfortunately, worrying comes easily to me. I worry about catastrophes in my absence (because if I’m there, either I’llView full post »
Summertime Change, Grief, and a Hero Name Tag
This summer has been different from most summers in that we’ve had a lot of summertime change, grief, and a heroView full post »
What it Felt Like to Be a High School Freshman in 1982
Today, I created three new recycling bags of packing paper looking for a photo of my brother and I with myView full post »
More than a Bed – it’s Sex, Sorrow, Sleep, and Snuggles
My bed is upstairs. Broken. Which breaks me a little. Feels stupid and first-world, but that’s where I am. AngryView full post »
10 Disasters to Avoid When Moving Across the Country
I know, another post about moving to Colorado. But I’m still in the thick of it and the disasters we’ve encounteredView full post »
The Journey of The Baby Jeep
I cried at the end of Toy Story 3 when Andy brought his toys to the little girl and walked her through each one’s nameView full post »
On Moving Across the Country, Procrastination, and Moving Through the Forest
On Moving Across the Country It’s the middle of the night, and I’m awake with thoughts on moving to Colorado. Or, moreView full post »
10 Surprising Things I’ve Learned about Blogging and Life
When I started writing about Tucker and my experiences navigating the Middle World between typical and special needsView full post »
On School and Feeling Nostalgic for Younger Years
“Do you feel more ready to send him to preschool now?” she asked. “No,” I said through barely held-in tears, evenView full post »
The One Photo that Makes Me Wonder What This Blog Stands For
I wasn’t planning on taking the easy way out. I must’ve looked at 2,003 photos until I came across one thatView full post »
10 Things That Might Surprise You About Me
One of the things I love about blogging and the online community is that writers share deep parts of themselves. Don’tView full post »
How I Came to Love My Neighborhood After First Thinking “NO!”
I was pregnant when we moved into this neighborhood. I brought my baby into it, and have built a life here. 14 yearsView full post »
Birth, Death, and an Obsession with Horses
I can’t remember when, exactly, I developed a deep love obsession for horses, but I was young. One of our neighborsView full post »
When You Can (and Should) Go Home Again (as in we’re moving to Colorado OMG)
We’ve talked about moving out of state several times over the past decade. “It’d be fun to live in Europe for a while,”View full post »
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10 Things I Hate More than Anything and Here’s Why
I’m in a school cafeteria for Cub Scouts. The kids are pretending their chairs are rockets, and it’s loud. I close myView full post »
One Kid’s Remarkable Belief in Easter Bunny Magic
It was Christmas Eve, and the house sounded as if it were late enough that I could get away with creeping downstairs toView full post »
I Want To Be Younger But Keep All My Life Experiences
It’s not as much as I don’t like being as old as I am as it’s that I’m old to be the mom of myView full post »
Make New Friends but Keep the Old (One is Silver and the Other Gold) (And Happy Anniversary, Julie and Charlie)
We used to sing a song in Girl Scouts “Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the otherView full post »
The Best Laughter
The best laughter is when you’re curled into it, unable to breathe. You can’t stop, even when you try. Maybe you’re inView full post »
10 Songs that Make Life Better
There are few things like music and scent that bring back past memories. Today, when I hear certain pieces of music, IView full post »
The Most Important Life Lessons for Contentment
Life’s lessons are difficult. They come with pain, and sometimes, regret. But ultimately, to live life with content,View full post »
The Feeling Of Jumping From A Perfectly Good Airplane
Tonight, I’ll tell you about the feeling of jumping from a perfectly good airplane. Here’s how it happened forView full post »
My Body is Ugly and Perfect
My son and I walk past shop windows and I catch an accidental glimpse of myself. Bad posture, bra straps showing myView full post »
10 Things That Are Better Than Being In Love (or come close)
I was six, the first time I fell in love. Not much is better than being in love. His name was Ricky, and he lived nextView full post »
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The Difference Between Fear and Worry, and the Fear of Dying
My first thought about this week’s Finish the Sentence Friday prompt of “I’m afraid of/that…” was that I could writeView full post »
Thank the Earth: Photos, Past Lives, and Scuba Diving in Turks & Caicos
I have far fewer photos in albums than the 26,942 that live in my phone. Most of my digital ones begin in 2007, whichView full post »
On Winter: Then, Now, and Next
Winter Winter snow pants hang on the door of the coat closet rather than in it. Boots litter the floor along withView full post »
A Few of My Favorite Things (Not Whiskers on Kittens)
This is a Listicle Friday post. It’s the prompt for Week 2 of the newly formatted Finish the Sentence FridayView full post »
Exciting Announcement about Finish the Sentence Friday Improvements and a New Host!
Hey friends. I know you’re confused about why I’m publishing on a Tuesday when I’ve been such aView full post »
The Most Unforgettable Moments of 2017 (The Best, The Worst)
The calendar did that flip, flip, swish, swish thing again, and it’s almost 2018. And so, tonight, I look at the mostView full post »
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What to Wish for Instead of World Peace
It’s a running joke that Miss America wishes for world peace. I’m not sure why it’s funny; maybe because it’sView full post »
When We Feel Like We Don’t Belong, We Still Belong to Humans, and There are Snowman Towels to Remind Us
Since last week, I’m happy to report that I’ve done some of the undone work. Don’t get me wrong,View full post »
How to Suck Less This Holiday Season (a guide for the lazy)
In case you haven’t been out in public recently, or gone outside to see that your neighbors have strung lights andView full post »
How Online Friends are Like High School (but Better)
You ditch math class (and speech class, and that other class that starts first thing in the morning) to drink beerView full post »
On Beautiful and Painful Priceless Moments
Remember those priceless moment commercials? They went something like this: Tickets for a family to go to a waterpark:View full post »
Why Do People Like Halloween So Much?
A ninja, Snow White, and Undertale Sans went to a Halloween parade. They met up with Mario and grim reaper, and wereView full post »
Why Do People Write? Also, #MeToo…
People write for a lot of reasons. I write because when I don’t, my histories gather together and stick like magnetsView full post »
What if Our Choices Make Us Better?
Do you ever think about who you’d be if you’d been born a different gender? A different race? Born to a differentView full post »
“Loving Lindsey” by Linda Atwell – A Personal Author Interview and Book Review (OOH and a giveaway!)
I spoke with a mama last night. She’s spent the past seven years, off and on, writing a book. A really great book.View full post »
And So We Rebuild
Our feet leave imprints in the sand, and the air smells of salt and potential. I think about breathing, how I need toView full post »
Unexpected Grief and Watergun and Butterfly Magic
On a day when July was ready for August, I sat and talked with a mother and tried to help hold her unexpected grief.View full post »
It’s August. “Will You Watch Me Play?”
It’s August. “Will you watch me play?” he asks. I don’t want to. In fact, I can think of 1,001 things I’d rather doView full post »
On Gapped-Tooth Grins, Poop Jokes, and Having an Eight-Year-Old
“How old is your kid?” I’d ask. “Eight.” “That must be fun,” I’d smile. “Oh! It IS!” she’d beam. I’d pretend to believeView full post »
Whether to fix the child or fix the world
If I had a magic wand, the first thing that comes to mind is that I’d “fix” my son. A dozen others. A billionView full post »
Nine Ways to Write when You Don’t Want to Write
Sometimes, writers think they don’t have anything to say. More often, writers have too much to say, but can’t say whatView full post »
We Remember the Past as We Smile and Cry at Photos
We’d finished supper, wiped the table, and loaded lingering plates into the dishwasher. My brothers and I dressed inView full post »
Seven Things I Hate About Summer (and Some I Love)
I love the idea of summer more than I love summer days. Yes, summer is walking in the light at 9:00 pm, sleeping late,View full post »
What the Month of June Feels Like
The month of June feels like school papers left in empty hallways, later bedtimes, and clock-less poolside afternoons.View full post »
6 Ways to Feel Less Broken in a Broken World
“I need to go to the doctor,” he said. We were heading home after a few hours at one of those indoor kid places filledView full post »
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It Wasn’t Autism, Until it Was and Then Wasn’t
Caillou’s whines bounced around the room’s lemony light the morning I tried to figure out whether my two-year-old wasView full post »
What It Feels Like to Be a Mom
Being a mom feels like promise. Of do-overs for childhood slights and a chance to right the injustice of times you wereView full post »
Ah, the Weight of a Name
A name isn’t ever just a name. There’s weight to what we’re called. Sometimes, the weight of a name is measured byView full post »
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On Being Not Enough and Laughing in the Dark
It’s late for a seven-year-old to be going to sleep, and yet, here we are. It’s the kind of late that you don’t tellView full post »
I’ve Got Nothing to Lose and Other Things about Death and Taxes
“I’ve got nothing to lose.” This is a thing people say. It’s something I’ve said, I think, although I do not rememberView full post »
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Zorbing and Other Kid-Friendly Things to do in Pigeon Forge, TN
It’s Spring Break. So, unless you’re on vacation for the week, you’re juggling work, life, kids andView full post »
And It Feels Like Home
When you think about your first home, or your hometown, you think about more than just a place. It’s memories,View full post »
Computer Friends are Real Friends
Years ago, a woman told me she’d met her husband online. I was judgmental and horrified. Sure that the two of them mustView full post »
Meeting People with Special Needs Makes Us Better
Sometimes, we meet somebody who changes one of our truths. In a lifetime, we meet many. Some change what we advocateView full post »
Once, We Were Eleven Years Old
“Mommy,” he says. I hear hesitation in my son’s voice, and so I hesitate. “Be mindful. Think before answering,” theView full post »
We Belong, Even When We Think We Don’t
I’ve belonged, even when it felt like I wouldn’t. My dad almost took me home instead of saying goodbye the first timeView full post »
All the Glorious and Unexpected Ways to Travel
Sometimes, We Travel in Time While walking to the bus stop this afternoon, a woman stepped onto her porch, shook out aView full post »
On Love and The Walls We Build
The walls we build are subtle, at first. I remember being six. My hair was wispy. Long. I liked it that way. I couldView full post »
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Love Brings Peace
Invincible There was nothing like late-night Friday college debates, responsibilities left on desks not to beView full post »
Maybe Being Upset is What Changes the World
Is it possible to let go of being sad or upset about a big something, a little something, one of thoseView full post »
A Humorous Look at Practicing Self Care
You’re familiar with mindfulness, meditation, and self care, but not because you’ve consciously practiced them. DecideView full post »
On Anger, and Relaxing Through It
“Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree andView full post »
Usually, I’d Say I Want to Change the World, but Tonight, I Want to Change Trump’s Education Secretary Nomination
“Buh-bye!” I smiled at my step-daughter. “That was so adorable,” she said. “He said bye-bye! Was that his first?”View full post »
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Sometimes, I Can’t Sleep and I Think about Friends
It was my first real slumber party. Popular girls would be there, so I shaved my legs. I got out of the shower and sawView full post »
What Will 2017 Bring Us?
It’s almost 2017, and part of me is broken. I look at life and prejudice and hate and rape culture and Aleppo and feelView full post »
On Holiday Traditions, and This Year Sucking While Being Amazing
I recently got a lovely photo-filled holiday card in the mail from my friend Emily aka Em-I-Lis. The text over herView full post »
Sometimes, There’s Nothing To Say When There’s So Much To Say
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The Sounds Around Us and Remembering to Breathe
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Our Country Voted for The Guy Who Hates People who are Brown, Black, Disabled, LGBTQ, or Female. Now What?
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My Future Used to Live in My Pocket
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What Makes Life Easier?
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Am I too late to leave a legacy?
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It’s Fall. Swish Swish, the Calendar. Beginnings and Endings.
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The Things I’ve Forgotten
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On Vacation Memories and Cherished Moments
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The Days, Years, Smiles, and Brave Mr. Buckingham saying “That Didn’t Hurt!”
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School is Starting and I Think I’m Okay with Second Grade. Maybe.
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All The Jobs I’ve Loved (and Detested) Before…
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Finding Blessings in Sweaty Hair, Dirty Feet, and Butt Jokes
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On Responding With Grace to Venom, Emotions, and Words
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On The Ripple Effect and Kind Words and Pebbles Mattering
“Drop a pebble in the water, splash, and it is gone; But there’s half-a-hundred ripples circling on and onView full post »
I Wish the World Knew We’re More Alike Than Different
I can’t remember whether we visited the old folks home to earn a Brownie Troop badge or to visit somebody. My momView full post »
I’m Not Ready to Have a Second Grader and Oh, Mamas Let’s Remember
“I wanna wear my fancy shirt,” he said. It was 8:00 a.m. He should have been dressed. We still needed to eat breakfast,View full post »
Reliving Childhood Through Our Children
We walk in the door, and I remind my voice to be gentle. Sometimes, she forgets. Tonight, she’s listened and is quiet,View full post »
“I Just Wanted Some Action,” she said. A Response to the Lenient Verdict of Rapist Brock Allen Turner
I found a boy behind a dumpster. He was drunk, floppy and adorable. He looked like a stuffed animal sitting thereView full post »
On Family History, Roots, Adoption, and the Branches of Life
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Just How Did I Get Here? Reflections on Life.
Sometimes, I wonder how I got to this place. This job, this city, this moment. This family. This house. These clothes,View full post »
Accepting What Is Through Dreams, a Speech Delay, and The Love of a Boy
I wish I could remember the sentence I heard that night. I woke smiling even before the alarm went off. “He spoke! Oh,View full post »
Oh Mamas, The Ways In Which We’re Reborn
When I think about the day I was born, I feel sad for then-me and for the woman who gave birth to me. She must haveView full post »
A Long Long Time Ago, Back in the 80’s…
A long long time ago, back in the 80’s… (and 70’s), kids ran feral all day until their parents rang aView full post »
Why Do Bloggers Share So Much Online?
“Oh, so…you’re talking about one of your blog friends then?” Blog, drawn out to sound more like “blaaagh.”View full post »
What if I Die too Early for my Son?
I ask myself for forgiveness for the night that I wanted to give my life to somebody else. I talk to stars and to GodView full post »
If I Only Had More Time
“If I only had more time,” I say to my keyboard. The clock whispers “You do have more time.” I look at it, see the bigView full post »
Why Do I Bother Writing At All?
I sat at our kitchen table, helping my first-grader prepare for tomorrow’s spelling test. “Come on, Buddy, just a fewView full post »
On Self Image, Invisible Connections, and Mornings
This morning, I looked into the mirror, sighed, and wondered why my recent haircut hasn’t held its shape for as long asView full post »
Will My Son Be Okay After I Die?
“Mommy, I need you.” I walk to the couch, lean down, place my hand on his cheek, and kiss my son’s head. His hairView full post »
When it Comes to Life and Homework, Good Enough Is
“Hey buddy, this’ll be a fun homework assignment,” I said. “You get to write a story!” “That’s not really fun,” heView full post »
What’s My Weak Spot? I am My Own Kryptonite.
It’s been a few years since I sponge-painted one of the walls in our downstairs bathroom. Tonight, I sit on the toiletView full post »
I Wish I’d Known that Everything Will Be Fine
I look at moments that changed my future and I wish I’d known that everything will be fine. “Something’s wrong,”View full post »
On Wrinkles, Parenting, and Drawing on Napkins
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Truth, Hindsight, and Being a Special Needs Mama
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I am the Mother to a Six-Year-Old.
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Remembering Childhood through Parenting and the Inevitable Death of Rodents
As I wrapped my little boy’s lifeless hamster in tissues and ziplocks, readying him for a later burial and for aView full post »
Five True Things about Learning from Life
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If I Were a Crayon, I’d Color in The Blank Spots
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What Will Life Be Like in 100 Years?
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6 Reasons Why Asking Why is Important
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A Letter to My Younger Self
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This Holiday, I Wish For Peace and Listening Both Big and Small
I walk outside, and sit on my porch. I look to the sky, inhale, and feel peace. My son is quietly sleeping upstairs,*View full post »
1st World Problems & 5 Ways to Aid Hardship
“It’s gonna snow tomorrow? Crap! That means I’ll have to take the bus.” I was 19 or 20, and the days when the weatherView full post »
Special Needs and The Nature of Love
“You know, not making a decision is making one. It’s a way out, because not choosing an option over another means thatView full post »
The 80’s. Or, When I Was 19 and Knew Everything.
There was a time in my life when I knew everything. When I was 19 years old, I knew how to solve homelessness andView full post »
What Will Life Be Like in 1000 Years?
The Year 3015 She sat, upstairs and downstairs, because the house continually changed to reflect the needs of itsView full post »
It’s Time to Talk about Gun Violence
There once was a middle-of-the-night when I called my dad, awake and sweaty, shaking from a terrible dream. In it, aView full post »
Quitting Ballet and Finding Out We’re Living A Fairytale
In seventh grade, my best friend was a girl named Gillian. I didn’t like the way her name was spelled, and for a longView full post »
On Making Assumptions and Giving People a Break
“Oh, to be her,” I thought, envying her beauty, her wealth, her career, her mind. Her life seemed perfect. Her life wasView full post »
Special Needs Kids and Superpowers: Would You Change Them If You Could?
“I have a question,” he said at lunch. I was on a cultural interview with several people that I’d hoped to be workingView full post »
Looking Back and Falling Forward and It’s The First Week of First Grade and I Think It’s Going to be OKAY
Tonight, I sat in my son’s tiny first-grade school desk for back-to-school night and resisted riffling through itsView full post »
I Think I’ll Miss This Summer
As September looms, I think about this summer and all that it’s held for me. My little boy turned six, and had hisView full post »
Aging and the Complexity of Birthdays
Each and every August, I turn a year older. While my approaching birthday is not considered to be a Big Birthday,View full post »
12 Things I Wish I Knew Back Then
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When A Special Education Teacher Has Advice
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Special Needs Parenting and the 80’s
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The Perfect Moments That Memories Make
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Lessons Learned about Mommy Cliques
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I Hope I Get This Summer Right
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We Need Better Girl Superhero Powers
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My Developmentally Delayed Boy Works Hard
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On Why I Don’t Like the Grocery Store and Embarrassing Things Happen There
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Alone
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On Community, Self Acceptance, and Having a Village
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On Wondering, The What If’s and A Little Boy Who Says His Mouth is Broken
When I’m running errands, sorting through bills, or trying to remain present while playing with my son in grass andView full post »
The Last Day Before Being a Mom, and Then
On the last day of normal, my husband took a photo of my swollen belly, just before we went to dinner. All of theView full post »
On Being 14 Years Old, The 80’s, and Hindsight
When I think about being 14 years old, I think about the tacky, fluorescent beauty of the 80’s, about unreciprocatedView full post »
Autism Awareness, Awards, and Progress
Today, on World Autism Awareness Day, I think about the progress that my little boy has made. While he does not have anView full post »
Love, Chores, And Filling In The Blank Spaces
Visit my house, and it’s pretty obvious that I don’t like chores. Laundry is handled by my husband, and the spurt ofView full post »
My Proudest Moments and Pssst – We Have Wings
Late at night, when all I hear is the humming of my house and the silent moon in the window, it would be easy to thinkView full post »
Early Intervention Evaluations and the St. Patrick’s Day that Wasn’t
It’s not that I remember most of the St. Patrick’s Days that I’ve celebrated. I remember my friend and I sitting atView full post »
7 Snow Day Activities for Kids (snark)
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On Mommy Wars and The High Price of Being Self Righteous
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The Way Back of 1980’s Station Wagon
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Plastic-Preserved Haunting Memories
I can’t remember whether or not I checked the mail this afternoon or on which days I have meetings next week, yet IView full post »
I Don’t Want To Rule The World. I Just Want To Change It, That’s All.
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Epic Failures Before Facebook and Smart Phones
Sometimes, when I close my eyes, I can smell Mexico although I haven’t been in years. It saddens me to realize thatView full post »
Special Needs Parenting: The Worry. Maybe, It’s More Like Regular Parent Worry Than Not.
Years ago, when I was eight or nine years old, I read the words that parents will always love their children more thanView full post »
If I Were President of All of The Things
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When I Am Old, I Want To Remember My Now Little Boy
Just before drifting off to sleep, my son rolls over to check that I’m still there and grips my hand more tightly inView full post »
I’m Brave. Wait. I’m a Coward. Or Both.
I don’t consider myself as being particularly wimpy. I am the eight-year-old who slept on a board placed on her bedroomView full post »
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How Do Special Needs Mamas Do It?
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Protected: The Time I Thought I Would Probably Die When I Heard These Words
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My Father’s Best Advice Was To Not Care What Other People Think
Every once in a while, when I’m writing, working, parenting, or life living, I wonder whether I’d act or do the sameView full post »
On Halloween, Skanks, Fat Superheroes and Special Needs Children Trick-or-Treating
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Between Advocating for Autism and Special Needs and Protecting Our Children’s Privacy
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Neighbors: Then, Now, And Motherhood is Lonely
My childhood neighbors meant easy-access friends, open doors, warm porches, sheet forts straddling short chain-linkView full post »
Life is Way Too Short and What You Do Matters
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Childhood. It’s His Turn, Now.
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I Used to Believe in Pet Rocks, and that Plaid Pants were the Best
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It Is With This Body
I cannot brag about ever having climbed Mount Everest, or finishing a refreshing swim across the English Channel. IView full post »
8 ways to foster self compassion. Or, how not to be, or raise, an asshole.
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A Letter to My Dad for Father’s Day
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When I Was Young, I Knew Everything
Years ago, when I was still young enough to know pretty much everything but physics and chemistry because hello totallyView full post »
The Kindness We Learn Matters
When I think about the nice things that people have done for me, it’s hard to separate them from the bigBIGthings thatView full post »
Dad thinks wife gave special needs son the world
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IEP Meetings Suck, and How to Prepare for an IEP
When special needs lurks in the shadows of your life, at first, quietly, and then, more forcefully,View full post »
Unchosen Choices
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The time I was abducted by aliens and could change my past
Last night, I was abducted by aliens while I slept. One minute, I was peacefully slumbering in bed, and the next, IView full post »
What’s the big deal about autism?
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Red Rocks Concerts, The 80’s, and a Mullet
The 80’s and 90’s were good years to be young. When I was in high school, each year, from May to September,View full post »
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Will School Crush My Special Needs Kid?
Every once in a while, the truth that my baby is no longer a baby, nor a toddler, catches me off guard. I’m reminded byView full post »
The Best Decade
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10 Things Special Needs Moms Wish You Knew
The word autism entered my heart as a whisper. It later entered my brain as a possibility. Later still, it entered myView full post »
You will love your retarded baby (and we don’t say retarded anymore)
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Men and Women Differ in Seeing Hidden Talents and I Can Wiggle My Ears
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The worst community service jobs ever
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Dream that this is enough
Do you ever take walks at night and peer through lit windows, wondering at the lives of other people? I took such aView full post »
Our traditions and how we are non-traditional
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Dear Special Needs Google Mama, who Thinks it Sucks
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The Best Special Needs School in the World
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2014 Blogging Goals – Should and Are
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This holiday season, I will be a better me
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Favorite childhood memories
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Pilgrims. Dorky clothing and shattered illusions. And a defeated pizza boy.
When I think of Pilgrims, I think of dorky clothing, shattered illusions and a defeated pizza boy. If you’re thinkingView full post »
Past relationships – what I wish I used to know
I lived for 37 years before meeting my husband. 37 years is a lot of years. At times, it’s hard to imagine theView full post »
We can fly
When I was a kid, I thought that if I stood perfectly still, breathed justright, and positioned myself justso, that IView full post »
It’s Halloween and I don’t want to be a Wonder Woman Skank
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Being Here is the Best Part of My Day
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It took seeing my son in public to know he’s not typical
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Protected: It’s Just Skin.
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Bravery and Winners Announcement
If I were asked to describe myself, I’m not sure that I’d include the word “brave.” It’s not that I think I’m a totalView full post »
I deserve a medal and you can win one hundred dollars
Have you ever done something that made you feel like you deserved a medal? I look at my past, which is long andView full post »
The short bus saved my summer.
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Sometimes, I’m not myself. By my maybe-autistic son. Sortof.
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Forgotten loves
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I have some bad habits.
About 15 years ago, my dad gave me a four-page article on procrastination. I assume that it outlined some commonView full post »
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I’m not a big church person
I’m not a big church person. I pray, I believe in miracles, I believe in wonder and that unexplainable, unimaginableView full post »
What would you do over?
If you had a chance to go back in time and do something over, would you? Do you have regrets? I have a tattoo on myView full post »
All of the Fourths of July are my favorite
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To my old man son
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Ghetto DIY. A homemade carwash.
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Life’s Turning Points
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Sometimes, a movie says what I want to say. But better.
I don’t have a favorite movie. I’ve been thinking about whether I do for a few days now, and I just don’t. WhileView full post »
I blog because of you. I blog because of us.
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Admitting special needs and saying “autism” is hard
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Surviving the cicada apocalypse and my baby isn’t a baby anymore
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I’m stuck on an island just like Sawyer
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I’m passionate about equality for special needs
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So much more than a dog
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The Land of Empathy and Wonder
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A typical day in my life looks like…
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I want to be a celebrity.
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Once, when I was bored out of my mind…
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I did something really stupid once…
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I tried to cook…
I tried to cook up the perfect recipe for an ideal life. I was nine years old. This is about how it went. First, IView full post »
Ridiculous Me
This past weekend, I had an escape. I was able to travel to Colorado (my hometown and a favorite place always) for myView full post »
When it comes to social media, I think…
I think that social media is both amazing and dangerous. When used sparingly and wisely, social media is the light atView full post »
Use the buddy system
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FTSF: I get so frustrated when…
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The most memorable Valentine’s Day I ever had was…
The most memorable Valentine’s Day I ever had was when I was 16. Or maybe this one, if you help me out. Here’sView full post »
Finish the Sentence Friday: When it comes to reality TV, I…
When it comes to reality TV, I just can’t. You see, it was ruined for me back in 2002. Blame Fear Factor. The oneView full post »
When I was younger, I tried…
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Finish the Sentence Friday: When I was younger, I tried…
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Finish the Sentence Friday: The last time I went on vacation, I…
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One of the most embarrassing things I ever did was…
One of the most embarrassing things I ever did was…” Sadly, I really had to think about this because theView full post »
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by Kristi Campbell
Deirdre Conran - Love your posts! Have no idea how to post on the finish the sentence Friday, but I’ll learn! I’m new at blogging and loving it!February 28, 2016 – 6:36 pm
Kristi Campbell - Hi Deirdre,
It’s easy, I promise! I saw that you’re in the Facebook group. Each week, there’s a sentence. People write to it (this week, it was “By this time in life, I thought I’d…”), and reference that it’s for Finish the Sentence Friday with a link here, and then you copy the link of your blog post, and click the blue button of my post for the week where it says “Add your link” and add it. It’s easier than it sounds. I put them live at 10pm eastern on Thursday nights and the link entries remain open until Sunday afternoon. You can add your link at anytime while it’s open.
Then, click around, read some other posts, and voila! You have blogging friends. I’ve made some of my very best blogging friends through this prompt. Many of us have even met in person. Feel free to friend me on Facebook and if you have questions, you can DM me.
I also send a reminder email each week with the sentence – let me know if you want me to add you.
This coming week’s is (I THINK, waiting for confirm from my potential co-host) “I wish I’d known.” I’ll put some more info in the group but yay! Look forward to getting to know you!February 28, 2016 – 7:31 pm
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