Where seeds of thought have room to grow
Category: Call me mom
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Day 1 and Day 2 at the beach, I collected seashells and photographs. On Day 3, I collected thoughts… Tom is really just a little boy in a man's body… We were walking on the beach and a ghost crab dashed in front of us and plunged into a hole, trying to hide. Tom couldn't…
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Sunday, I sat down in my in-law's sunroom, put my feet up, and finished reading a magazine I started two months ago. Four more are waiting their turn in my suitcase and I'm feeling really optimistic that I'll get through them this week, too. I'm also determined to read a book -or at…
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Keeping an eye out for beauty at the University of Texas yesterday, while I wandered…and finding it, of course…
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"It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last." ~William Barrett, American philosopher and professor. Relevant words, especially for these days…celebrating fathers, remembering a friend's son, and looking ahead to when I really take Kendall to college…in only a few short weeks. These are hectic, heartbreaking, busy…
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The minute I set eyes on my firstborn, I felt that fear…that pain of imagined loss. Until I was a mother, I didn't have an inkling of the kind of fear a parent lives with every day – the death of your child. But it is born along with your baby and you carry it with you long…
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Confession…I spanked my kids. And I don't regret it. Especially after watching this…
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If I had my druthers, I wouldn't be in a grocery store checking out at 8:15pm. But that's the only chance I had to go this week, and we were down to slim-pickin's in the pantry. So as soon as the pork tenderloin was done and I had eaten, I grabbed my list and headed to my Cedar Park HEB. It…
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Wasn't it just yesterday I stood in this colorful classroom serving cookies and punch and celebrating Kendall's graduation from kindergarten? She was so ready for 1st grade – for sitting at real desks, for skipping naps, for moving one chapter closer to this past Friday, when she and her classmates accepted the final diploma the…
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For the past six years these friends from high school have hit the road on Harleys (well, one Yamaha), just getting away from their regular lives, reconnecting and strengthening their friendship. I think it's great that they care enough about each other to make time for their friendship like this. This year they planned…
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I haven't had time for writing this week – I can almost count the number of days until Kendall's graduation on one hand now, and for each one of them lately there's been some activity scheduled. Writing is a stress reliever for me, so no time for writing plus a hectic schedule means I'm feeling…
Long Hollow 