A Retrospective Personal Growth & Spirituality

365 Days

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December 21, 2011

Originally published December 21, 2011

As I sit here in nothing but the glow of the Christmas tree lights and the computer screen, staring at the ornaments that have been…

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 I could breathe now.  And…

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 and crushed beneath hat,heedless of…

A Retrospective

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, O, to 6:00 a.m. swim…

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, when the sky is still…

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 daughter for a day of…

A Retrospective

Feeling Horribly Optimistic About Life at the Moment

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September 27, 2011

Originally published September 27, 2011

Need I say more?

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 this.  My professor giving the…