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My daughter is getting so big, so fast. They always told me this was going to happen. How fast time flies by when you have a little one, and how they seemingly grow before your eyes.
I didn’t believe them, not really, until I started getting on lots of airplanes for work. Flying all across the [...]

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I’ve had a bit of an introspective year, as you might tell from my posts here. It’s been one full of change, transition, learnings, and lessons.
Some of them have been beautiful, like learning that I’m a much better mom than I ever thought I could be. Some have been hard, like accepting that I have [...]

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Yes, I took time off of work. I put aside the email and the phone for the most part, and soaked up some sun and breeze and lake. I ate too much, slept too long, and cracked a beer at 2 p.m. on the boat dock most days. The weather was perfect, and in many [...]

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I have two dogs. Rather, I have two four-footed aliens. I say that because I’m absolutely convinced something, somewhere sent these critters to me from another planet to bring me amazing amounts of joy in between the times they make me insane. Mostly so I won’t sell them to gypsies.
Riley
Riley is my first rescue. She’s [...]

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The old adage is that when life deals you lemons, you’re supposed to make lemonade. Truthfully, I can’t complain deeply. I have an amazing daughter, a job I really love, a warm and cozy house, and some wonderful friends that surround me.
I posted professionally about the “drop” that happens after gallavanting around the country at [...]

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It comes as a surprise for many people when I tell them that I am only now coming into my own. My own me. My own something, that doesn’t have a qualifier - someone’s partner, employee, friend. I’m just…me.
It’s an interesting and scary experience sometimes, because when you’re often defined by how you enhance someone [...]

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The bridges are different than they’ve ever been.
Tonight, when I needed an ear - just a friendly contact with another human I liked - I reached out to someone I’ve yet to meet. Because his face was friendly and familiar, and he’s become comfortable to me.
I think that’s an increasingly common phenonmenon, and for those [...]

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The world must sound different to me than it does to most. I don’t notice it, mostly because I’ve never much known it any different. But every once in a while, I’m reminded that I hear things just a little bit differently.
I’ve had ear afflictions ever since I was a little kid, all the way [...]

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Sometimes, the impossibly hard thing to do is to let go.
I’m terrible at it, actually. I am relentless about most things I do. Tenacious on good days, stubborn and bullheaded on others.
The hardest lesson I’m learning today is that some problems just don’t have a solution. Not everything works as you planned, and it’s impossible [...]

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