Summer Is Coming

IT’S SUMMER BREAK!!!! You’d think that with four kids I’d be dreading summer break, but I’m not. During the school year I have anywhere between 8 and 12 alarms going off every day reminding me to do drop-off, pick-up, mandatory school volunteer work, homework, and chauffeuring to school events or…

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Broken Window Theory

Originally Posted 2/21/13 There are days where turning off the computer feels like a defeat. I turn off the computer at the end of my daily writing goals. Sometimes I have a number of words to write, sometimes I’m looking to edit a certain number of pages, sometimes I’m sending…

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The Strange Emptiness of Success

You wouldn’t think there was a sadness attached to success. There should be elation. Perhaps celebration. There should be parades, and trumpets, joy! But as I clean my desk tonight and tuck away the notes and scraps and post-is associated with DECOHERENCE I realize I’m burying the corpse of Jane…

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Making Progress!

I started physical therapy in January after finally realizing that, no, resting wasn’t making my hip better. When the pain was so bad I considered buying a gun to shot my leg, I went to the doctor (see me make good choices!). After several tests it was determined that I…

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