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OUT OF MY CONTROL

“Does that make you crazy?” My partner’s niece, Ashley, asked me as we were discussing her new nursing career and I was telling her that I had bee...

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An open field, big trees surrounding, rows of folding chairs, and people milling about talking.

BUILDING A WALL

I had no idea what to expect when I found out that my partner would be volunteering at the building of the wall. Not “The Wall,” the one that ligh...

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Outdoors, a typewriter with a bright flower growing in front of it.

WHY I TYPE

There she was, that beauty of a black Royal, sitting there, dusty, keys barely visible. Forty Dollars, the price tag said as it was marked do...

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A woman sitting on a wooden chair in the middle of a sunflower field, candidly laughing.

ON A BENDER

A slight bump in the road occurs, occasionally, when I go off the deep end and slide into sugar and wine oblivion. Sometimes it is just a slight...

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A screenshot of a picture that overlooks a large crowd, everyone with their arms up, from someone standing on a stage.

GETTING THE LED OUT

When I was first married, my in laws, my husband at the time, and I decided to head down to New Jersey to Six Flags on a family trip. This was one ...

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NOT DRINKING TODAY (AGAIN)

“Are you drinking or not drinking today?” my friend, Morgan, asks me, on a regular basis, partly in jest, partly serious. This alone should be a me...

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A mug alongside some other dishes that reads, "A storng woman lives here".

SOUND THE ALARM

These days when I see a group of women at an outdoor event in nice summer dresses talking to each other, I can’t help but think of Margaret Atwood’...

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Outside, a table with a laptop, a book, and a salad. A garden in the backdrop.

WAITING FOR AN ANT

I have an unstoppable amount of energy that propels me, daily, into a whirlwind of activity. This energy is a force I have always had, one that wh...

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MAN-O-PAUSE

“You definitely need to workout in nature outside, often,” my dear and beloved fitness trainer, Kathy M., said to me after we finished an ass kick...

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