MAY 7, 2009 11:30AM

Mothers are Meant for Mending

Mothers are meant for mending
Broken hearts and holey socks
They usually are greatly gifted
With drying tears and curling locks
Weaving a web of importance
Around tiny dreams and quivering hands
The mere mention of meandering misgivings
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MAY 7, 2009 10:21AM

The Mother of all Holidays

Mother's Day was notoriously created by a greeting card company, which shall go unnamed here. Even though we all know damn well who it is. It's the same company who invented Valentine's Day and Crocs. Brain-washed us just enough to buy a bit of nonsense, again and again, year after year.… Read full post »
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APRIL 24, 2009 12:39PM

Mommy Says

"You have a mouth like an eighty year-old grandmother." My husband utterred these words very calmly and matter-of-factly to me and yet they stung like he had slapped me across the face. "I sound like what?!?!" A comparison to a truck driver would have been more expected and more appreciated; I've… Read full post »
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APRIL 23, 2009 4:45PM

The Picture of Worn-in and Gray

I renewed my license at the DMV today! Just shy of my 39th birthday. It seemed like I had been there not too long ago, though it had been four years already. Four years? Where does the time go? To work, children, and husband, that's where. I carefully examined my soon-to-expire… Read full post »

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