OK, I’ll admit it. It took me a few weeks, but I finally followed the herd mentality that I know I have, and went out and got the damn thing. You know what I’m talking about right? That stupid book. No, not the Hunger Games. That book is actually well written and worth the praise [...]
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I have been wrestling what to do with this body of work here for a while, now. Scratch that. I know what I want to do with this blog, and have for quite a while now. I’d like to turn it into a book. A real one, bound, with pages, maybe with an ebook version. [...]
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I have notebooks from when I was younger…my journals. At times when I was chronicling My Former Life (lives?) they were at times helpful in remembering those long forgotten details of those dusty memories from so long ago. And most of them include a few New Year’s Day entries, most of them either trying to [...]
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So…this is where I always thought the blog would end. “My Former Life”…well the last entry was about an event that occurred 11 months ago, my 40th birthday. An event that was the whole idea behind this blog, hoping to find some peace and closure over the event of my impending 40th birthday. And honestly, [...]
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Thursday, September 1, 2005: I can’t tell you all how amazed I am at the response to the Hurricane Katrina Relief Project. I am sure you’re all watching the news as much as I am, and what I’m seeing makes me feel even more strongly than ever that we must do whatever it is each [...]
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(this post will appear slightly chronologically out of order) I wrote each of these to thousands of Rick Springfield fans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Sent: Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005 Subject: Katrina I have spent my morning counting my blessings while running my two youngest children to their first day of school. I spent [...]
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“Yeah, I do think about him sometimes,” Zach answered the question. “You do?” I blinked, shocked. I had spent the whole day obsessing on whether or not to write Joe’s aunt now that I had her email address. Which was silly, I had his grandparents’ address and could look up their phone number on the [...]
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It was quiet in the house on the mornings the kids were at preschool, and Z was at high school. It was strange , after years of working for Rick while trying to keep the babies occupied so I could spend hours on my computer, that now that I finally did have the time, there [...]
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I’d never been West of the Mississippi before, I thought. In fact, before my honeymoon just a few months ago, I’d never been further west than Chicago, Illinois. On our honeymoon, we’d taken a cruise in the Caribbean, and one of the ports had been New Orleans. R had been all around the world with [...]
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“Now where is that damn notebook?” I muttered to myself, frustrated. I was in what had been serving as Dawn and her children’s bedroom, formerly Zach’s bedroom. She’d been with me for the better part of a month, and my nerves were starting to fray. I’d been happy to welcome her and her two children [...]
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