Category: mental health
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What are you putting off today?
Projects and More Too many people think that teachers get the summer off. That’s simply not true. You see, we are not employed for the days we are not working. My particular employer separates our yearly salary into 24 checks, so I’m getting paid twice a month all year. At the same time, it’s like…
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NYC Midnight Microfiction 2019: My Results and Take-Away
This was my first time to compete in one of the NYC Midnight competitions. Spending money to write in a competition is not something I would normally do, but for $20 (after a $5 coupon for sharing on social media) I figured I would give it a try. I made it to the second round…
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NYC Midnight Micro-Fiction: Round 2
Climbing aboard the bridge, Kasian peered into the vortex of his reality through massive windows like lenses of truth….
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Essay Throwback: Fashion
It was a pleasant surprise to uncover an old flash drive that had only one thing on it: an essay had written for sociology class 10 years ago. It was exciting, embarrassing, and enlightening to look back on my old writing styles and catch a million errors that had not previously been noticed–and what’s more,…
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A Woman in the Christian World — Period Talk
My old basketball net is beside the storage room at my grandparent’s house. It was given to me by my great-grandpa for Christmas when I was 5 years old. I won’t ever forget that Christmas because I remembered looking around at my cousins who were opening their pile of presents and thinking, ”they all got…
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Tiny Human Chronicles
Time Flies Just yesterday I met one of my aunt’s friends who asked how old my daughter was. I had to seriously think and do some math, then settled for “almost 2”. My mom-brain really stops me from doing simple math sometimes. But really, my tiny human is a tall and sassy 22-month-old who will…
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Pruning of the Soul
As I prune the dead leaves off my fresh mint plant, I am reminded of how often God uses nature to make us reflect on our lives. The sweet smell surrounds me; the more I work, the stronger the scent. I can hear my daughter counting acorns on the ground, smiling all the while. The…
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Persnickety Possibilities
“Where has the time gone?” Days, weeks, years. Time moves past us at a pace that we cannot keep up with. Our hopes and dreams all trickle like sand through the hour glass, and where am I? Sometimes I feel like I am watching from the sidelines as so much moves past me. Reaching out…
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The Puppy Titus
I have a more serious post that I am working on to post this evening. However, I just spent the last ten minutes petting my puppy, Titus. We have had Titus from the time he was actually a puppy…six years ago. He dislikes a good amount of people but loves my mom, me, and my…
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Pending Politically / Uber Thoughts / Puppy
I am working on a super long political post about the GOP debate. It will be up by Saturday night, however I have decided to take a break and get ready for bed…just for sanity. There are a lot of candidates. Some I have a more in depth opinion of and others it is just…
Designing Lorri 