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"T"eresa on Flickr
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So, I found out last week (much to my disappointment) that I am not the Ultimate Ruler of the Universe. In fact, I'm not even a competent Ultimate Ruler of Me. Maybe some of you knew that already. Actually, I knew that already, [...]
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I have a bazillion ("No," my son Austen, who is very proper about his numbers, would insist, "there's no such thing as a bazillion!" Fine then, a gajillion?) things I want to get out of my head and onto this virtual paper, but I spent my [...]
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I had planned to post this on Tuesday, but it turned out to be a completely crazy day, and of course, yesterday was my day of rest.
This week I focused on sleep (and fighting with God). The day started out badly. I accidentally [...]
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Wow, December first already. A side benefit of this "Just for Today Challenge" is that one day a week, I know what the date is. But no, knowing what the date is was not my own challenge for this week. This week, I was going to focus [...]
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There is a parable in the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People about a person who works harder and harder to saw down a tree because of a perception that there is no time to stop, take a break and sharpen the saw. I have [...]
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When my son was first born, I actually spent some time doing that thing that we stay-at-home moms supposedly spend our lazy, bon-bon eating days doing: I watched television. Now, I know, folks who haven't actually been stay-at-home parents to a colicky infant -- whose poor [...]
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There's a picture of me somewhere, when my son was a few months old, sitting at the computer and uploading pictures of him to share. I got lots of advice to sleep when the baby slept. I was told by plenty of people [...]
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Many years ago, before we had children, my husband bought me a small fish tank for my birthday. At the time, I wanted a car. I didn't really think he could buy a car, but I was relying on a very iffy public transit system [...]
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Ekler on Flickr
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I have always loved the end of the day, when everyone else is asleep and I can finally be alone with my thoughts. When I was a child, I would fight sleep so that I could spend more time indulging in the wonderful escape of daydream [...]
