Category: Handle with Care 365 2020
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Ce-Celiac, you’re shaking my confidence daily
Every time I go to get checked, there’s an answer. An answer for everything. In 2016, it was “stress-induced IBS” likely caused by the strain of divorce, and my not eating properly. Or at all. Then there were two EKGs done over two years living in Kingston, where my heartburn and chest pains were so…
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You Deserve To Take Time Off
“QUIT WORKING!” screamed her email. And that one text message. And that time she yelled at me on the phone. She was right. A colleague of mine trying to keep me from doing the one thing I was trying so hard to not to. Work. And for the most part, it worked. How did I…
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Mama, I’m coming home
When he was 9, he made a decision that altered the face of our reality. He pulled up a seat, his legs barely long enough to rest his little feet on the patio stone. “Mommy,” he said, “I want to talk.” And his Dad was there with him. And I knew what was coming. My…
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19 Times
19 times. More than 19 times. 19 years I’ve had to tell you that I love you. That I’m proud of you. 19 years that I was afraid of you. Afraid I couldn’t be what you needed me to be. That I wouldn’t be all that was asked of me. That I would mess things…
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doting on daughters
Kid C is my youngest. My baby. And tonight, she’s my guest author. Ok, so usually you would be reading in my mom’s view, but no, today you’re reading Kid C’s view! me and mom mom do a lot of things together, we go to the mall together, I go to work with her when…
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whole lotta love
Last week, I’d make a crack on my radio show(s) that Jan and I had had a squawk, and after he’d left for work, I wrote a passive aggressive note in the alphabet magnets on our fridge. Some people were horrified. Some in particular reached out and commented that they were worried about us, and…
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I am so tired.
what is about carbs, and days off that makes us so tired. Have I always been this tired, or is it a new thing? Am I lethargic from not doing anything – despite having done a shift at work, met with two clients, unpacked half my house, and only took one nap through it all?…
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It’s Dolphin Week. PeriodT.
When Jan and I were first together, I sent him an emoji of a shark. “Boo,” I’d said. “It’s (shark emoji) week.” “Dolphin?” he’d responded, “I don’t get it.” Then I had to explain it was a shark. Then I had to explain what shark week was. And then he got it. What my partner,…
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; a semi colon. a pause. an interlude. a breath. bated breath. i wish you could still take a breath. i wish you had taken a breath. i wasn’t there when you were longing to live. i wasn’t there when you were longing to die. i wasn’t there when you opted to go. or wanted…
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Grammy’s 2020 – A Recap
The crowd are on their damn feet. Lizzo just slayed her opening medley, with a flute solo, her back up ballet dancers – my god her VOICE – and kicked it off with dedicating the performance to Kobe Bryant. I’m not crying, you are. They got so excited when Lizzo took out her flute lmao…
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