Tag: family
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Orphaned
On September 11, 2025, just before dinner time, I became an orphan at 45 years old. My mother passed away in 2006 after fighting through kidney failure and multiple heart attacks for years and a week ago, as I’m writing this, my father passed away after a short battle with multi-systems cancer. And try as…
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Coming This Fall
As we enter the fall season, while I won’t be partaking in the Pumpkin Spice nastiness, I am shifting my life a bit to start a new day. I’ve taken a job that will require me to work at night, which honestly is my preferred time to be awake anyway. I worked nights for a…
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Hindsight
Haunted By My Past I wasn’t even 18 when I graduated high school, my birthday falling in the summer after that day. On that day, though, I was already making decisions that would dictate the direction of my life. Circumstances at home had forced my hand, guilting me into choosing the path that was expected…
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Quiet Noise
One of my most vivid memories from childhood was the day I got run over on my bicycle near my house. My parents had called out for us to come home, and I knew, on that particular day, that meant that we would be going to Leal’s for dinner and I could eat chips and…
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One Glass at a Time
Growing up, we spent more of our evenings outside than inside, especially when my Mamaw was alive. She had an affinity for watching the sunset each evening, for listening to the critters and creatures near her old house chitter and chatter, for simply feeling “God’s breath” on her neck. I sometimes thought it was Satan’s…
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Back to Life, Back to Reality
School has kicked back off in our world, bringing with it the ability to get back to enjoying the things that make me, me. Having children who are neuro-spicy means that my summer is filled with doing everything in my power to make sure they don’t do something to hurt themselves or someone else because…
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