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New Year, Old life
I like the idea of fresh starts. The new year, my birthday, a fresh season, heck, even a new month, these are all occasions that trigger expectations of new beginnings, renewed efforts, opportunities…...
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A little optimism this way comes…
There seems to be a lot going on extended family wise lately. Birthdays, pregnancies, drama… All families have drama, I know, but my tolerance for it is getting shorter and shorter as the years go by....
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Happy Birthday Darling Boy
This post is a month late, the Boy’s birthday is February 19th. I’m a terrible blogger / mother, but so far as I can ignore this blog for extended periods of time, I still can’t let a birthday go by...
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Mind over matter
I wrote this post in March. How I keep writing stuff and then not posting it is beyond me. Sooo, I’m posting it now, two months later. I’ll get into my Houston trip next I expect, just to catch y’all...
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Rolling hills and verdant valleys, dammit!
The problem with the small, dinky, one horse town we live in is that it’s in a truly beautiful area: I recklessly took this picture as I was driving the kids to their swimming lessons yesterday. These...
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Like a dagger, or a whisper
Recently, something happened that touched me, pleased me, and broke my heart all at the same time. A girl wrote me… well, let’s be honest, a woman wrote me, a woman my age, which is why I wrote girl...
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A lot like giving up
Every time I open the BonnyBard file to write another entry on the blog it shocks me how long it’s been since my last one. When I wrote on Moomser I managed to write at least three times a week and...
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Song of Summer
It’s August, it’s the middle of summer here. Things are winding down in the US, schools are starting up, life is going back to normal, yet here we’re still in the thick of things. In fact, the Husband...
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Feeding children in Italy
I read a lot of food blogs, both the recipe ones that inspire me to try something new, or simply trigger my drool reflex, and the real food / traditional food ones that inspire me to eat better, treat...
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The road to nowhere
The road to hell, they say, is paved with good intentions. Though I agree with the sentiment, in some instances I think good intentions are much more subtle, and more pernicious than that. Oftentimes...
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A bucket full of crazy
So I’m off to Dubai and the Maldives this week… Feels very strange to even be writing this. It’s not all fun and games, actually it’s mostly long flights, a lot of hand holding, and uncomfortable heel...
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Things unsaid
Is it always best to speak one’s mind? I wonder about that a lot. I don’t, generally, speak my mind. I filter all the time, unless I’m really tired, but generally, I filter. Mostly because what goes...
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Plants and stuff
If ever I had any doubt in my mind that we never actually grow up, I now have unequivocal proof that that is indeed the case. I am my own proof, because I’ve now become a forty-year old teenager....
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Can’t breathe
I am in Rome this weekend for one of my nephews’ wedding. It was lovely, they are a beautiful, loving, kind and sweet couple, that loves each other so much you can taste it. I was very emotional during...
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Identity
I’ve got a bit of a conundrum lately, it seems to be a side effect of the death of my marriage, I no longer have any idea who I am. I was with the Ex for seventeen years, seventeen, that’s a really...
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Nobody and dating
A girl is nobody. That was a part of game of thrones I had never really understood, how can a person really become nobody? Some vestige of yourself remains, doesn’t it? Unless you have amnesia of...
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One day
One day they are going to stop running to me for cuddles when they’re hurt One day they are going to stop looking at me for confirmation One day they are going to stop saying look, mama, look what I...
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Forty something, something
Today is my 41st birthday. Now that I’ve been in my forties for an entire year, I have a few observations to make: Last week my friend unceremoniously yanked out my very first white hair. It was a bit...
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Failing
I’m failing at life today. I’m sitting on my bed right now, crying. I’ve been crying for what feels like forever and I can’t seem to stop. The reason for my meltdown is a cold shower. The cold shower...
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Questions, questions
The first thing I do in the morning after snoozing my alarm four times when my brain slowly starts coming out of the night’s torpor is to turn my phone on and look at facebook. For all intents and...
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