Flowers for the table

I was at my friend’s house and hanging out on his back porch for a bit this morning.
“D” lives just down the road and his garden is amazing.
I drink it in whenever I am there or drive or walk by, before coming home to the two potted plants in front of the door of my [...]

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A pain in my neck

Life’s actually been pretty good considering that my relationship has been rocky.
I mean, are we or aren’t we? I have an idea.
Nothing worse than being stuck in the middle.
Actually, I’m not stuck, but as long as I am home right now and not with him, I am kind of floating in between non-committal and wanting [...]

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Smells Like Teen Spirit

This is totally random. 
I was listening to Patti Smith on my iPod today when I was cleaning the house and she sings a great version of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. I was reminded of the anger in a boyfriend I had in college. He was the one who used to “lead” me around by the [...]

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Hey! Leave her ALONE!

I was driving a well traveled back road on the island towards home with my girls in the back seat, and I came upon a red sports car with four people crammed in it driving about ten miles an hour. It was one lane so I slowed down and went around them, noticing the young [...]

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God Steers

If you ask me why I have four boxes of Nilla Wafers in my cupboard, I will say “it’s for the girls”.
I mean, they love ‘em.
If you ask how many the girls have eaten by the end of the week, I will say “oh, about a handful.”
And don’t ask how many I’ve eaten. And [...]

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Happy Spring, Neighbors!

Every morning we walk up the street three blocks to the elementary school. In the spring, when all those dandelion fuzzy things are sprouting in the yards of our neighbors (I am in a condo, we have no yard!) my little girls run across their lawns at 7:30 am and pick them and blow them [...]

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This is HOT

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Anger and becoming bald

I’m not quite sure what has driven me towards angry people. People who demand something and then if they don’t get their way, stomp around like a 3 year old until someone listens and appeases them and enables them and then they sigh relief and are happy again. Cycling over and over and over again.
In [...]

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Calling things off

So yeah, I called things off. A few times. I walked out at midnight one night when he got mad that I went up to bed at midnight instead of stayed on the couch with him to watch the end of a very bad movie. He came upstairs and started yelling at me. I got [...]

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Lucky

My sister’s in therapy and she calls me every Tuesday to talk about their session. So in a sense, we have our own therapy together because what she’s working on is what we all suspect or know is true…we are who we are, initially, because of our parents.
Unfortunately, I have days where my take on [...]

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