Lessons I’m Learning

Writing LOVE

November 13, 2009

Today is a day when people are celebrating TWLOHA which is a rather funny looking acronym for the real name of the movement: To Write Love On Her Arms. It’s dedicated to helping those who struggle with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. People who struggle with that need to know so many things not the [...]

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Dr. Sunshine

August 12, 2009

Generally speaking, life is pretty happy for me. A few years ago I remember making the decision to be joyful. Willfully joyful. Basically, I was going to choose joy every single day. Some days are hard but they’re not always impossible and if I try hard enough I can find something to be joyful about. [...]

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If This Is You

June 29, 2009

Dear Former Friend/Prayer Partner/Sunday School classmate: Would you really have done this had you put any thought into it? Honestly. You haven’t called or visited me in three years. That’s evident because you didn’t know I moved. You only knew that I stopped attending your church. In fact, I’ve moved twice since then and you [...]

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Thank You For Understanding

June 13, 2009

I’ve just not been able to write as openly over the last two years and for that I’m sad. Not that I haven’t written at all, because I have. But I haven’t been able to share it in an open forum like this here humble little blog. But you know how it is. You start [...]

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Context, People. CONTEXT.

May 5, 2009

I’m just standing. Minding my own business. Near a wall where a guy is also standing. I am absentmindedly thinking of the thousands of things my brain is running over at the beginning of my day. “Are those real?” My eyebrows raise. I stand up straighter and shift my weight to allow my body language [...]

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I Prefer “456 Months Old”

April 3, 2009

Last year, at this time, I wrote this. This year all I’m saying is that I continue to love my thirties. Oh, and this: Dear Kelly, You’re doing alright. You’re not screwing it up. You love your family and your friends and your job. You are becoming the woman that you wanted to be. Keep [...]

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Protected: L-O-V-E In Six Words

February 1, 2009

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Can You Tell I Went To Therapy Today?

January 28, 2009

The story is probably best told from my mom. She says I was in elementary school and we lived in a house at the top of a hill. Normally, she would stand in the kitchen and look out the porch to see us girls walking home with our friends. Thinking on that now it was [...]

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When You Wanna Kick 2008 In The Junk…

December 30, 2008

Ten kinds of people to avoid are: 10. Those who mark each holiday like they’re ticking them off cheerily and dabbing their pen on their tongues. Check! Yay! That was fun. When you’re out and about and you run into them they sound like this: “Christmas? Oh, Christmas was FANTASTIC! The whole family came in [...]

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Dancing With Maddie

October 16, 2008

When I write I try to sit in a quiet place and let the words come to me after having rolled my thoughts around in my brain for the entirety of a day. By the end of the day I have my topic, my thesis, and I just roll it out without stopping long enough [...]

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