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“Grace? She passed away 30 years ago!”
As children, we often do things to learn our boundaries, and push them as far as we can. I know I certainly did. I ended up with a dog bite to my face and a lifetime of guilt from various other childhood acts that I am not at all proud of. However, my father told… Continue reading
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They Call Me MacGyver
As kids, we use our imaginations all the time. We make things out of nothing, utilize props when we play, and assign roles to things and people that make absolutely no sense except to us. I remember making bike ramps out of cinder blocks and plywood with my brother, filming a fake horror movie with… Continue reading
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Life As An Empath
Growing up with an ER nurse for a mom definitely has its perks, let me tell you. Any time my brother or I got injured or sick, she knew exactly what to do and was a rockstar at making things better. That being said, there were SO MANY times I tried to milk situations to… Continue reading
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Silent All These Years
Growing up, I was mostly a quiet child, at least in public. Around select friends and family it was hard to get me to shut up at times. I had to feel at ease to really open up. Sometimes I wonder if I was born this way, or if I grew into it… being relatively… Continue reading
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Butterflies
As I sit here trying to figure out how to start this post, I’m recalling how I felt about my life as a young teen just starting high school, and how I would feel at the end of it. I don’t know if all teens go through a phase of transformation that will end up… Continue reading
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The cosmos inside
Growing up, I always wondered why people went through so-called “midlife crises.” It never made sense from a young mind that people would be so unhappy with their lives they would want to drastically change them in some way. The reality is, a person never really understands what life is like at any given age… Continue reading
