Category: free
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it’s a big beautiful life
Today meant this in my little corner of the world: And, as always, I am so grateful. I don’t “count days” until I get a notification on my phone, like I did today, and this one came when alcohol and substance abuse have been weighing heavily on my mind. Lately, it seems, when I do […]
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100 Days by the numbers
Yesterday marked 100 days since I said goodbye to the vino – and girls margarita nights and hard apple ciders and those grape soda things – not unlike Zima – that they just came out with not too long ago. . . And these past 100 days, spent clear-headed and feeling like me again, have […]
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it’s an eminem kind of week, y’all
Eminem is my official spokesperson this week. I have decreed it thusly. Janis the Bug is blasting him at every opportunity. And, yesterday, I posted this image on my Insta: See, it was a sickly weekend at work, and, by the time I got home Monday morning, I had a temp of 101 and a […]
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60 days – plus 7
If I pitched an idea for a film based on the past 7 days of my life, no one would go for it – too unrealisic, no way anyone’s life is that crazy. But that crazy it has been. Incredible highs, terrible lows, very few moments of just normal. Life happens that way sometimes. In […]
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Spoonie Body Image Issues and Feminism and The Whole Glorious Mess
I Like many women, I spent many years being too fat. I was too fat when I was in junior high school. I was too fat when I was in high school. I was too fat as a young adult. I was certainly too fat after my children were born. I was even too fat […]
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no fear
A few days ago, one of the women in my Insta spoonie community passed away. She was several years younger than me and I just absolutely hate that this has happened. Then, the next morning, I saw the above thought from Steve Jobs in my Insta feed and it was right on time. It really […]
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Some Nights Are Just Magic
Dave, y’all. I got to see him last night as the most wonderful just because surprise gift from my amazing husband. (yes, I am the luckiest, most well loved woman in the entire world) And ever since he told me about the tickets, I have been ready to pop. And, finally, it came. So, we […]
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We Are So So Free
A terribly sad thing happened in my little corner of the world today. And it’s made me realize that it’s time to write honestly about the thing I probably most didn’t want to in this world and “out” myself. Still, my chest is about to split open knowing I NEED to. For me and for […]
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