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Worms in the Light
I recently learned an interesting fact about worms. Apparently, they’re afraid of the light because if they spend an hour in direct light, they become paralyzed. Now, this was just a fun fact in a book...
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Facing Fears
I’m sorry for my long absence between posts. I have been . . . well, avoiding this. Not because I don’t want to write. Certainly not because I don’t have anything to write. But because I have a...
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Idealism – cost/benefit analysis part 1
I recently talked about how my counselor asked me to discuss why I fear becoming better than I am. I still don’t entirely know what I fear, and I need to continue to explore that. One of the biggest...
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Reality – cost/benefit analysis part 2
Wow. I am SO sorry this has taken me so long! I actually had a draft started the next day, but . . . well, let’s just say the past–wow, has it already been almost a month?–has kind of gotten away from...
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Letter to my Parents
Whoa! Two posts in one day? Shall we call this making up for lost time? Actually, part of why I kept not posting was because the previous post, Reality–cost/benefit analysis part 2, was saved under a...
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My Mother, the Robot
I will get to talking about my father. I promise, I will. It’s just . . . right now I still can’t even think of something to write about. I can’t seem to nail down a memory. And the way to do that is...
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Blame
This is going to be a quick post, but I’m going to be internetless for a little while starting tomorrow. Not sure how long – anywhere from a couple days to a month. And I wanted to check in with you...
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Personal Cleaning Responsibility
As of when I’m typing this, we still don’t have internet. Supposedly it was going to be on yesterday, but after a big long ordeal . . . well, suffice to say, it still isn’t. But I’m personally more...
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Waxing Eloquent on Child Hunger
Yup, changing topics today. Because I recently found out about ConAgra Food’s Child Hunger Ends Here campaign. As a child who was hungry a lot–or just eating the same thing over and over–this strikes a...
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Amendments
It has been brought to my attention that my post Personal Cleaning Responsibility may not have exactly expressed what I intended to express. I want to make this clear: There was a lot of cleaning to...
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Contradictions
Sorry I’ve been absent for so long. I’ve had about 30 potential posts run through my brain, but always when I was doing something that didn’t even allow time to stop and jot the idea down. And I’ve had...
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Social Cluelessness (and other things I needed to get out)
I don’t know how to interact with people. This isn’t entirely a new discovery, but it’s something that I’m learning more and more. I’ve always had people whose company I really enjoy and with whom I...
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Individuals . . . Together
Wow. It’s been a while. Quite a while. Well, I did warn you all that I would probably post irregularly. Don’t know if this’ll be the beginning of another spurt or if it’ll be a single post before...
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I Am Not My Parents
Okay, I’m just putting a warning out there right now, right at the start of this post: there is a high chance that this post could sound defensive. And in fact, it is. But not defending myself to other...
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It’s All About Love
No, this isn’t a Valentine’s Day post. Just something I was thinking about on the way home. I haven’t always known what was right or wrong in my growing up. For a long time I knew something was wrong...
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Things That Are Different
I spend a lot of time in these posts looking at who I used to be, or how I am not yet who I want to be. In this post, I want to look at who I’m not anymore, and good changes that have taken place in my...
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Common Factors
I’ve been watching a lot of House, MD lately. (Yeah, the show’s finished. Watching it through on Netflix.) And I realized something. He had a rough childhood. He was abused by a father who wasn’t his...
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I Am Not Your Dump (nor obligated to appreciate being treated as such)
You know what I really love? When a friend is weeding out their clothes and finds a few things that make them thing of me. When that friend brings those things to me and says, “Hey, these made me think...
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on Bitterness and Change
So I was scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed today and came across this picture: Don’t you love things like that? So nice and encouraging! In a two-sentence quip, they have told you that you’re fine...
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Dear Friend . . . .
I’m writing this letter here because I need to write it somewhere, and cannot send it to the friend I’m writing it to. She once read this blog, and is still one of the very few people who know me and...
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