nurturing | nurturing
Sep.29.2012
When Kwame was born two months pre-maturely, no one was sure he would survive; he spent his first month in the outside world inside a neo-natal intensive care unit.
When he came into our family at Christmas time, in a perfect world he should not yet even have been born for another month. And yet,...
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Aug.08.2012
Benumbed by the exertions of Being Me last night, I was chilling, cat on my lap, playing a computer word game on Pogo while watching one of my favorite shows, a sitcom called "The Big Bang Theory". It's a show about nerds and life. Life centers mostly around the opposite sex and family, and...
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Sep.08.2010
I could be a much better mom to Jack. I’m aware of this, and while I don’t like it, I think it’s something I need to admit. He deserves for me to continue working toward being a better parent to him, and I’m doing it.
Bipolar disorder complicates every aspect of my life. I don’t have stable moods...
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Feb.21.2010
NOT FORGOTTEN
I phoned my sister-in-law Loretta, that I haven’t seen for quite some time to see how she was coming along through her bout with cancer. She is being treated with chemotherapy and doing very well, considering all that she’s been going through.
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Jan.27.2009
Sleeping Beauties
As I sat at the sewing machine the other day, making curtains for my daughter, it brought my mind back to the day when I was in my late teens. Forty years ago, and the first time I ever followed a pattern in sewing, by making doll clothes for my youngest...
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Sep.15.2008
Yes, and I am not making light of it, there are times when the world is on top of us instead of us on top of it. Days the crashing and burning feels personal (though there's always crashing, and always burning), and our friends look older, smaller, withered and hunched, and we lose some to...
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