If you are someone who knows me and are years and years away from your timely death, you might want to do yourself a favor and hang some garlic or do a novena. Nearly every single…
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By now everyone knows I’ve been going through some difficult stuff. People dying all willy-nilly. Babies taking a look around in my apparently hostile uterus and saying, “Welp! I think I’ll take off early. I’ve got…
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So life carries on. So on and so forth. A tragedy happens (again) and rocks your world and for a while you watch it go by on the sidelines. You sit behind a haze of grief…
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I seem to recall thinking that 2014 was going to be a good year. Last year was a financially frustrating year for our family, punctuated by a miscarriage. I banged out this sanctimonious blog about how…
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Yeah, you read that right. In today’s world of struggling to get pregnant, visiting fertility clinics like those at Gurnee location, the time of super prenatal care and ultrasounds at 7 weeks pregnant and fertility and…
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Two more days until Bev and Fran make their grand entrance here on the West Coast! Yaaaay, my parents are coming to visit! They’ve had quite a winter back in Mass. In fact, isn’t it snowing…
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What does LL Cool J say? Don’t call it a comeback? You’re right, it’s not. But I’ve had two chain letters in different forms come across my path this week, and I find that oddly satisfying.…
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Maybe it’s just the pregnancy hormones talking here, but I watched a little Reality Bites tonight and it made me ache for my youth in a not-so-superficial-how-fast-can-this-life-go-by-and-why-are-things-so-different-now kind of way. It’s crazy to think that this movie…
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A colleague said to me recently about starting a blog for my company that I would soon suffer from blog guilt if I didn’t update frequently enough. I’m well aware of blog guilt—it’s part of the…
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