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A Retrospective

Blog posts originally published on The Miscellany of Life and The Miscellany of Life (Part Deux) between 2006-2012.


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A Retrospective Personal Growth & Spirituality

Just Breathe

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December 19, 2011

Originally published December 19, 2011

My sister asked me, upon finding out that I managed not to fail out this semester, if it meant that…

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A Retrospective

4 Little Blue Monsters, A Hallow’s Eve Poem

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October 31, 2011

Oh curse the dawn, with itsblack skies and heat-seeking windswhen all else sleeps on this Hallow’s Eveand I stumble madly in the cold,hair wild…

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Mini-Respite

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October 24, 2011

What heavy things weigh on my mind at 5:30 in the morning as I roll out of bed to take my newly minted freshman,…

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A Retrospective Depression Grief & Loss Parenting & Relationships

A Hundred Years of Solitude…

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October 19, 2011

Originally published October 19, 2011

…would not be enough, if you were to ask me at the moment.  But that is just this very moment,…

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A Retrospective Grief & Loss Parenting & Relationships

I AM MY MOTHER’S KEEPER

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October 1, 2011

Originally published October 1, 2011

Ever beautiful.

Not in the way that I ever thought I would be – not sandwiched between my mom and my…

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Feeling Horribly Optimistic About Life at the Moment

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September 27, 2011

Originally published September 27, 2011

Need I say more?

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A Retrospective Alzheimers Grief & Loss Parenting & Relationships

SILVER LININGS AND POTS OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW

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September 25, 2011

Originally published September 25, 2011

Ok, I will not lie.  I should be studying Mendelian genetics, epistasis and other patterns of genomic inheritance.  I know…

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A Retrospective Personal Growth & Spirituality

IF YOU LOOK HARD ENOUGH…

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September 14, 2011

Originally published September 14, 2011

You can find beauty in almost everything.  Even those things that seem to have no beauty in them, at all. …

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A Retrospective Grief & Loss Personal Growth & Spirituality

SERENITY

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September 13, 2011

Originally published September 13, 2011

I made a decision this week.  It has been a tough month and a half in all aspects of my…

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A Retrospective Autism & Disabilities Parenting & Relationships

One Down

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September 12, 2011

Originally published September 12, 2011

Maybe satisfying one OCD will be enough to divert attention from prosthetic leg obsession.

Pray for me.

He’s already seeing better.  The…

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