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Continuing to work on having an attitude of gratitude. In honor of those efforts and this blog (and because it was on a DEEP clearance discount, and I had a reward for $10 off on top of that), I picked up a cute t-shirt that says “ALWAYS GRATEFUL.” You can see the top of it…
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Ever since I bought a Baby Mothman Squishables plush keychain, I’ve been staging Baby Mothman “sightings.” When we went to visit my daughter and her boyfriend in Oklahoma, I took him with and photographed him everywhere. Baby Mothman is apparently also a fan of Star Wars, because I discovered him at Cheesesteak Rebellion! He was…
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What is the legacy I want to leave behind? Pretty weighty question. I have been having some heavy thoughts of late. “Dust in the Wind” came on over the speakers at work; I remembered hearing it in the hospital when we were visiting my aunt, just before she passed. I’d heard the song when my…
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An exotic silver-plumed bird, underfeathered and overfurrowed, leaden eyes crow-footed and hungry-taloned; ashen her pallor when too deep is the night. Pockets of velvet moonshadow gather in her thin, paling hollows. ~ Michelle Engel~ The above is a poem I wrote during my graduate school years, about what I perceive to be my mother’s pain…
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I have received bonus mothering from so many women over the course of my life– female friends, the moms of my friends, female supervisors who always had my back or knew just when to step in with an “atta girl” as needed, long-distance online friends, my long-distance bestie who I did meet in person once……
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The featured image for this post is a portrait of a former long-distance crush of mine. He inspired no less than 3 works of art. Of them all, I think this one is my favorite. It tracks that he’s stepping out of the frame, as we never met, and he just kinda poofed into the…
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What does freedom mean to me? My first thought was the intense impression George Michael’s “Freedom ’90” left on me as I was growing up. Hence the retro graphic. Love is love, and luv is luv. AND it’s a gorgeous video, with a great message, packaged in very glam style, intentionally omitting George Michael in…
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So, I’m having kind of a rough night. Everything started out okay. Made it to the Mexican restaurant to meet my friend, and got there just a little bit after she did. Parked next to her. Still plenty of room in the lot. I was right. Getting there a bit before they had advertised today’s…
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May the 4th be with you!!! Tomorrow marks Star Wars Day. If everything goes according to plan, I will actually be at a Mexican restaurant listening to live music in anticipation of Cinco de Mayo, then celebrating a former coworker’s upcoming internship and wrap-up of college, at a Star Wars-flavored cheesesteak restaurant the day after.…