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A wall Hanging Sign that Reads Love your Family

Just One Drop

I woke up with a weight on my chest. An Election year… Some old feelings are back again. Some just won’t go away. Being a sensitive person with empathy is a wonderful thing until, because of it, you absorb so much emotion that you suddenly feel...

Crying and Carrying On

Cryin’ and Carryin’ On

Between sips of Folgers from their lipstick rimmed styrofoam cups, my grandmother and some of her sisters held court and gossiped mercilessly from their middle pew in the funeral home chapel.   One particularly tearful woman caught the worst of...

Glitter and Oats

I had asked her to come to have someone to talk to that didn’t only want to talk about details of what their coins bought on their video game. My friend, Lisa, sat next to me in the recliner. I hadn’t even gotten myself dressed that day. She jumped...

Just in a Different Place

Anyone who has ever taken a teenager on a family vacation knows the drill:You make the plans, the teenager hates the plans, the teenager makes faces and noises to alert you to this fact, you confront their attitude (often in a Starbucks), you remind...

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