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Check out “Mom Stuff and Other Things”
When my kids were very small, I joined a local mothers’ network and wrote articles for their newsletter. Check out my “Mom Stuff and Other Things” blog to revel in those nuggets of wisdom. I am curious to reread them now and see how much wisdom I was really imparting at the time : )…
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Then
“Look alive,” he always said. How do I look alive when you make me feel so dead inside? Where did I go? Will I ever know how you slowly took pieces of joy out of me and called them stupid wastes of time and I believed you? It took over ten years, but almost all…
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Taking a Turn
Just a heads up that this blog may not follow a logical flow or hang together. I really want it to, but this desire for uniformity has prevented me from regularly posting. My challenge? I am an editor by trade. The most difficult challenge for an editor is creative writing. I MUST fix those sentence…
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Avignon
Car exhaust wafts as I squint at the golden ramparts, 14th century fortress no more. Smooth plane trees tunnel over Rue de la Ré, Early morning shopkeepers sweeping cares away. Cafe drinks, silverware clinks, Squeals from urban schoolyards, Echo in the cobblestoned alleys. Water under the bridge, On y danse.
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English, anyone?
One thing I didn’t expect about living in a foreign country and learning to speak a second language was how much I would think about English. About how WEIRD English is. About how HARD English must be to learn. Have you ever thought about that? Maybe you had a hard time with the whole language…
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Debut
“[W]hat seems foreign might not be any stranger than the familiar, if [you’re] willing to look closely.” —Eddie Huang, as quoted in Time, February 2015 I lived abroad during my junior year in college and while I received college credits for my academic work, I feel the most valuable part of my experience was exploring…
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A Grateful Citizen
Even before the war in Ukraine erupted, I was always grateful to live in a country that has not seen war on its own soil for a long time. I feel we take our nation’s basic infrastructure for granted in a major way on a daily basis. In contrast to what is happening in Ukraine,…
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