Family
September 28, 2009
- Recently I read an email from a young mother of a one month old baby born with cleft lip and palate. Her tearful post recounted a scene in her local grocery store earlier that day. As I read her account of what had taken place, I remembered a similar incident which had happened to me and my son, and the anger began to build.First, let me say that we mothers of children born with craniofacial ...
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September 25, 2009
- From the pebbled pavement of Oxbow Drive, the house is pretty, but unremarkable. Constructed in the 1970’s, when aluminum siding was all the rage, this house is baby-blanket blue with brick around the door and the downstairs windows. The faded shutters were white at one time, but now long for some fresh paint. It is a house that suggests security and family and normalcy, reflecting the ...
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September 16, 2009
- This essay was filed for the "forgiveness" blog competition, and has now been removed due to the sensitive, personal, and emotionally charged nature of its content.
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September 11, 2009
- So I have less than a month to get my 150 pages done, and at this point, it's looking impossible. I'm spending hours writing each day, but have this horrible habit of editing as I go, which eats up a bunch of time and doesn't result in much content. My husband tells me that I should just write and write and then edit later, but my brain won't work that way. I think I must have some form of ...
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September 9, 2009
- I grew up in an upper middle -class home in Los Altos, CA (just below the upper class homes in Los Altos Hills). I always thought my family was strange and didn't fit in, but that was before I really learned that every family is strange.My father was an alcoholic until I was almost 7 years old. Some of my earlier memories are of him being drunk. I remember one time when we were so excited for him ...
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September 8, 2009
- They say a woman is born with all of her eggs in her ovaries unlike a man whose sperm lasts only 72 hours before a new batch is made. Does this mean that we are as old as our mothers? I wonder about genetic memories, memories in the very nuclei of cells and tissue. My mother was born with me already inside of her: can we trace a lineage of mothers leading back to the very fingertips of God? We ...
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September 8, 2009
- As Michael and I walked away from the ER last night, my thumb bandaged and protected from the elements and stitched, a woman and a young boy ran past us. I don't mean to type cast, but this wasn't the usual mother/son pair that I pass by on a daily basis, in either Oakland or Contra Costa County. She reminded me of the seventies, but a seventies long laid to rest and hopefully forgotten. ...
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August 31, 2009
- I'd chosen a matching silk blazer and skirt set, the color of a robin's egg, for Easter service. I couldn't believe I was putting myself through the ordeal of going back to that church. I had little intention of doing so, but earlier in the week Eric had stopped by looking for Beth. "She's at the grocery store," I'd said. "I was ...
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August 30, 2009
- Another full day today, but here's this morning's meditation:Meditation 211The picturein your mindis only bloodand emptiness.You plan and legislatefor whatcannot be heldin the handor snatchedfrom the airas it passes.For most of the day, Lord H and I have been wandering aroundIghtham Mote in Kent, which is a totally wonderful Medieval moated manor house. Bliss. It's the first time we've been too, ...
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August 27, 2009
- Always and Forever Katie The Rose of Tralee by Annette J Dunleahttp://www.shelfari.com/books/12493453/Always-and-Forever-Katie-The-Rose-of-TraleeDescriptionKatie is a farmers daughter in Tralee. She is best friends with Ronan. As they grow up they fall in fall. On the night Katie enters the Rose of Tralee contest under the apple tree where they carved their names as kids Ronan proposes to his ...
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