Category: This is Us
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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words…
We are in the swift downhill race to the end of elementary school for my son. Every single day there is some celebration marking the end of the class of 2017’s time at the school. Today that celebration was an awards ceremony honoring academic achievement. My smarty pants, loves school, never met a book he…
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Bearing Each Other’s Burdens
I was honored, and a little (okay a lot!) nervous to be invited as the featured speaker at Atascadero United Methodist Church as part of their annual Mental Health Awareness Sunday. The key word to me in that sentence is “annual”…..every year for the past few years they have set aside one Sunday in the…
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The Is Us; 2017
One year ago today I hit publish on “a little project” I’d been working on. Today I went back and read the post that started what has become an incredible journey. Take a peek and see where we started. We’re in a much better place in general today than we were when I wrote that…
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Love, Faith, and Anxiety
Maundy Thursday is the day that Christians commemorate the gathering of Jesus and his disciples for the Last Supper. Maundy comes from the Latin word mandatum, meaning commandment, in reference to Jesus’ teachings about a new commandment. “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one…
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Look Closer…
One year ago today…. This was a picture perfect day as captured from the rooftop deck at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I remember the first part of the day being a lovely family outing. And there are dozens of other pictures taken that morning which support my memory. But shortly after this picture was taken,…
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MFEO
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. My son announced last week that he wasn’t going to take Valentine cards to school this year. He said he just doesn’t care about it anymore. He’s in 5th grade, so the announcement didn’t really surprise me (although I did double-check today that he really, really meant it and was prepared…
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Pasta – With a Side of Perspective and Persistence
A dyslexic, an Aspie and their mother are sitting around a table… That almost sounds like the start of a bad joke. But it isn’t. It was dinner time in our house last night. On most weeknights, dinner is a rushed affair in our house. We eat early so that anybody who has an evening practice,…
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What Will Your Story Be?
New Year’s Eve. 2016. It’s been a rough one in many ways – my son hit the lowest of his lows, my daughter has had to learn to balance being herself and being a good sister, loved ones have died, marriages of people close to us have ended. It’s been an emotional and exhausting year. …
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From my perfectly imperfect family, to yours…
It’s late morning on Christmas Eve day. Hanukkah also begins this evening. A scroll through my Facebook feed shows me most of my friends and acquaintances all over the world are engaged in some form of last minute holiday preparations. I’ve been sick for the past couple of days, and am pretty weak and tired,…
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Thankful for Us
It is the day before Thanksgiving 2016. This time last year, I probably thought we had hit our lowest lows with our son. I would have been wrong. There have been some incredibly dark days in this year, but there have also been moments of incredible light and love. This year has given us answers and…
We're All A Little Broken 