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How Busy My Blog Has Been
It’s been so long since I’ve posted that my dashboard is different and I’m getting payday loan spammers asking me for guest blogs. I’d love to see how they try to relate it to YA authors and books for...
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A Very Merry Bookmas!
While the girls are busy today playing Rock Band with the new puppy, I’ll be happily hiding in my library among my books. This year I add two really special books to my shelves. Rackety Boom: My most...
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Trigeminal Neuralgia: Ultimate Negative Reinforcement
This is what my face feels like about 5 to 20 times a day depending on how fussy my trigeminal nerve is feeling. That’s not an exaggeration. You know how when you go to a doctor for some pain issue and...
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What I Have in Common with Moby Dick, Mr. Roper and Rachmaninof
Much of the last few weeks I’ve been doing my research on Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN). A few interesting things I’ve learned include: Norman Fell (aka Mr. Roper from Three’s Company) had TN, as did...
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Brain Surgery is Motivating
I dig that slug reading a book, even if that is one of my least favorite creatures on earth. What does it have to do with brain surgery? Not much, I suppose, but see how absorbed it is in that book?...
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Dear Brain Surgeon, Please Add _______
Five days until brain surgery. In order to remain the least amount of scared, I’ve been making jokes. I like to joke about the things I want my doc to nip and tuck while he’s in there. My top choices...
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Rest and Recovery
Hi. Nearly a month has passed and I’m finally writing something longer than an email. Hooray for progress!! I’m doing very well post surgery and recovering as expected. Reading and writing are still...
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The Dog who Loves Selfies
Magnolia has adopted Instagram as her preferred social media platform, and I’m committed to not getting my parental funk all over the site by joining it. She didn’t specifically ask me not to, but it’s...
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Of Corporate Meetings and Pedal Car Bars
If you work or have worked in the corporate world, this meme likely resonates with you. I’ve been out of the corporate setting now for around three months and am more content than I’ve ever been....
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Ebola–Close to Home
Here’s the thing: my husband could’ve been Kent Brantly. He stood in JFK Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia while their first Ebola patient came in. My perspective as a wife was first to be angry and...
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Rejections, Hardiness, and 9/11
This is a photo of Eleanor and me from 1999, I think. I was looking for one from 2001, but I’m terrible at keeping photos and memories organized. But basically when I think back on 9/11, I remember...
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I Have a Son
His name is August. It’s strange to read it, I know. It’s strange to write it, and I’ve had months to get used to the idea. A lump rises in my throat as I write it. I’ve asked myself many times why I...
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Supporting Trans Kids Means Finding Empathy
I haven’t posted in SO long! Mostly I’ve been writing about transgender stuff in private. But it’s Pride Month, and I’m feeling full of pride. And I need something fresh on this blog! Most of my...
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Seeing Us In Them
I haven’t blogged about family in a while. Partly because the older the girls get the more they read the blog, so the more at risk I am for embarrassing them. But, I can share the following story...
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If My Life Were a Book Cover (7)
Title: Hippie Van! During our recent family trip to Seattle and Portland it became Eleanor’s (and consequently Magnolia’s and my) mission to shout HIPPIE VAN every time we saw one. There were a lot —...
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A Very Merry Bookmas!
While the girls are busy today playing Rock Band with the new puppy, I’ll be happily hiding in my library among my books. This year I add two really special books to my shelves. Rackety Boom: My most...
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Trigeminal Neuralgia: Ultimate Negative Reinforcement
This is what my face feels like about 5 to 20 times a day depending on how fussy my trigeminal nerve is feeling. That’s not an exaggeration. You know how when you go to a doctor for some pain issue and...
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