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“This is magic.” Only a child would say something like that while walking the halls of a children’s hospital. We had just exited the elevator taking us from the registration floor up to the pre-op level for my daughter’s scheduled surgery –a tonsillectomy, a frenotomy (lip-tie cut), and a myringotomy (ear tube replacement). When we…
I thought I knew what was important in life. So God made you (and you and you) to show me what important looks, sounds, and breathes like. I thought I knew how to recognize beauty. So God made you (and you and you) to show me that beauty can look different and make you feel different…
there once was a girl who knew she could she could because she would she would take every chance dance every dance this girl who knew she could there once was a girl who knew she could then anxiety took over her ‘hood her ‘hood and her brain her courage got stained this girl…
It was the week of my 32nd birthday, and I took myself to a local nail salon to indulge in some self-pampering by way of a mani and pedi. Next to me was an older woman, maybe in her sixties, treating herself to the same while her husband perused the local shops nearby. Twice he…
It was a morning like every other, or so I thought. My husband was in the habit of doing early morning runs in the neighborhood and that morning was no different. He said goodbye to the kids, wished them a ‘good day,’ and half-kissed me as he usually does when I have yet to brush…
Men and size. They are either proud of it or ashamed of it. Size of what? Their family. And, no, family is not a code word for anything. Men and their family size. They are either satisfied and grateful for it or displeased and embarrassed by it. Guess what? So are us women. It seems…
Mommy the Rapper is coming your way, ‘Cause I always got more and more shiitake to say. Today we’re talking summer and time off of school, Can’t I just let them swim in the pool? For the whole dang break, yes that’s what they want, And that’s the only way to ensure they won’t taunt. Taunt…
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