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"We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are always there for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.
-- Jeff Warner"What I want to say to you is that sometimes life catches you by surprise and you feel unequipped to handle what it brings you, but every bit of life you've lived before that moment equips you to live through it. That's what I would give to you."
-Fanni Victoria Green-Lemons (talking to her daughter)If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can, there is nothing more to it than that.
"The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one."
-Jill Churchhill
Author Archives: tricialc
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Today is my birthday. Most of the time I just don’t really care about my birthday. I am happy to be alive and to complain or whine about aging seems kind of selfish to me. If I didn’t age, my … Continue reading
Happy
I am unhappy. Constantly looking for ways to fix me. I am stressed by expectations. I spend time looking for ways to ease the burden I have saddled myself with. Will that supplement help me sleep better? Will that pill … Continue reading
The Calm
There was a time, several weeks ago when I hit my personal limit. It reminded me of a flight that I was on about 6 years ago from Denver to San Diego. As we approached San Diego we hit turbulence … Continue reading
I recently entered a flash writing competition. There wasn’t like a prize or anything. Spoiler Alert: I did not win. My Take aways? 1. My mom told me I was special too much when I was a kid. I am more conpetitive and definitely … Continue reading
Ants Marching
Cory is the holder of the paper in our family. He takes care of the taxes, and records the things that need recorded, plus stuff that doesn’t need recorded. I am not patient enough to be interested in such things. … Continue reading
Creek stompin’
Late in the summer I asked Eliot to show me around where he and his friends had been spending their days all summer. As I worked in our basement office Eliot would stop in and ask for permission to go … Continue reading
Heavy
Sometime when I was between 8-10 years old I picked a swimming suit out from the JC Penney Catalog. It was a bikini, and though my mom may have tried to steer me in a different direction, to a suit … Continue reading
Beautiful
Walking from the second restaurant of the evening, picking up some to-go nuggets for one of my picky eaters back in our D.C. hotel room I enjoyed the quiet and the people watching. As I make it to the top … Continue reading
Struggles
I am really struggling. Not in a way that I can put into a clear list of what’s wrong and what needs to change, though I do have a list. I am not sure addressing the list would change anything … Continue reading
There was a time shortly after Thea was born when I clearly remember being in complete misery. There is a certain amount of misery that comes with every childbirth experience. I had that. Then I also had some nursing issues … Continue reading
Jumping Daisy 