Month: May 2013
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What Happened To Imagination?
-Two hard plastic kiddie pools -Two plastic lawn chairs -One slide shaped like an elephant -One toddler swing set with a slide -Three five gallon buckets -One broken plastic flower pot -About 100 puka shells scattered about -Three bikes -One tow behind for a bike…..without wheels -One garden hose -64oz of liquid bubble bath -Four…
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Silver Spoons and Summer People
This is actually a re-post of a guest post I did last year for one of my favorite fellow bloggers, Daddy Runs A Lot. With summer quickly approaching us it seemed fitting to put it back out there. The town where I come from isn’t for everyone. It’s the coast of Maine but it’s not…
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Being a Mom Means…
Being a mom means: Being a Lego master and a fortune-teller. A doctor and a wash maid. A Mario expert and a cab driver. A story-teller and a magician. A human tissue and a dance party dj. Being a mom means: Staying up late on ‘date night’ only to get up before the sun for…
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My Sexual Assault Story
I don’t know what prompted me to sit down and write about this today. I just sat down at the table….and started writing. I’ve told plenty of people about my sexual past, the good and the bad, but I’ve never actually sat down and wrote about it. I think I was scared if I wrote…