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My Blog is back... :)
*Waving* If you haven't already, go give it a read. It explains my for-the-most-part silence in the last year and some odd months. :)
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The Starting Over Years - Looking back to look forward
Wow yes I’ve been quiet for a while. College keeps me super busy it seems. But today I’ve been kind of reflecting back. The reason is because tonight is my twenty year reunion. While I am excited, I am also saddened in a sense. Let me see if I can explain.
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The Starting Over Years - Dating a whole new world
I know...I know I've been quiet for a long time. I apologize for my absence. While there are many excuses, I will just say: "Life comes at you fast". There, I like that. So now that the divorce is finally final, I have entered a whole new phase of the starting over years. Yes I've been dipping my toes into the world of dating. My experiences are ( Read more... ) -
The Starting-over Years - Finding My Spiritual Self
This week I want to talk about that reawakening of self. Well to be specific spiritual self.
You see my dad’s mother was a southern Baptist Christian. By the age of five I could recite the
Lord’s Prayer. She had a little fold up book and we would read it every night. Even though I couldn’t
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The Starting-over Years
After over-hearing a random comment today, I began to think about my own situation. People seem to have names for parts of their lives. The comment I heard was someone referring to her bonus years with her husband. Within my own mind, I decided to try and define this part of my life. In a weird sense I think it gives me a bit of control. I’ve ( Read more... ) -
One year later - day of devastation to present
It's been exactly one year tonight since my personal life fell apart. Today it has hit hard, realizing that a year has slipped by. There has been beautiful moments filled with caring wonderful people, and moments when I really had to fight to go on. There are moments I feel so alone, trapped in a living nightmare.(these are fewer, but still happen ( Read more... ) -
Adventures in Cheese - No really, Velveeta....
Here is my funny for the day, oh and what an evening it was. My children have been bugging me to make nachos for dinner. I promised weeks ago and so far it hadn't happened. After school, I decided nachos would work, because it sounded really yummy. I stopped at Fred Meyers to buy what we needed. That is where my adventure began. I had heard that ( Read more... ) -
Sentimentality - Or as I now understand it...
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Last Friday I finally heard my Professor explain the definition of Sentimentality. I now have a more definite understanding of what he meant. It happened we were looking at art. I meant to type this up over the weekend, but life comes at you fast, and I am just now getting to it. Apologies...
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On Writing Romance
As you all may or may not know I am currently in a creative writing class. The other night my professor said something that made me think. He said, "Falling out of love is much more interesting than falling in love." In a sense he does romance writing a dis-service. I disagree with his thoughts because, romance writing is not necessarily just about ( Read more... )