Tag: Family
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A Step Mother’s Manifesto
This is in part a public promise to my family and a soapbox stand for anyone who wants the right to love your spouse’s children. Why is it that the stepmother is portrayed as the evil one in the fairy tale? That is often the furthest from the truth of reality. Most stepmothers want only…
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Dear Lord…make it stop.
Me: Oh God! What is wrong with people? What is happening to my children? This world is full of people who have twisted reality so much that the truth is hidden. What seems harmless is damaging the thought process of our children. Truth has been watered down so much that lies have taken control. The…
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Don’t Use the Good Dishes
Photo by Jasmin Schreiber on Unsplash Let’s pretend it is Thanksgiving Day and the turkey is in the oven. Your house is smelling like heaven to a starving man. All your family is there, well the ones you like anyway. Your job is to set the table. Do you get the regular dishes out or the…
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Kids These Days
Every generation has its version of this complaint. For my grandparents, it was, “Kids these days don’t know what love is” when my parents were part of the free love hippie sixties. For my mom and dad, it was, “Fashion? We had to wear homemade clothes. Music? We had to listen to one radio station.…
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Complacency is a Killer
Did you ever run into a friend whom you haven’t seen in a long time and wonder what happened? You know the one. The one who you did everything with and were even maybe contemplating spending forever with, yeah that one. What did you say the last time you saw them? There are a million…
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Check This Out
I find the phrase, “Check this out” problematic for me, though I say it all the time. To be fair, I am a librarian by day which involves checking of books in and out all day long. It is part of what we in the business call, library lingo. Particular words that mean one thing…
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To all the Women who Let Him Go
Thank you. Thank you for walking out of his life. You thought you would be better without him so you left and moved on. Thank you for casting him off as if he were last year’s fashion. Because you sent him packing, he found me. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to love him.…
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Now this is Love
Clouds by Lori O’Gara Anyone can say I love you. Some people even mean it when they say it. I challenge you to look at love through a different lens and analyze what you think you know about love. Love is not an emotion or a feeling. Love is a choice to care about another person…
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Home is a Feeling, not a Place
Home, the images of which can produce strong feelings of belonging and security for most of us. For me, home is where I sleep. Where I am the most like myself. I don’t have to put on polite faces as I do at work or in public. I can walk around with bare feet and…
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