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Deserving Love
Doesn’t everyone deserve love? To be loved? To be accepted? To be cared for? Over the last couple of years, I’ve watched friends go through devastating breakups, and I’ve noticed a recurring sentiment that I’d like to warn you about.…
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Guess I’m Gonna Talk About It
I was 22 years old as 1999 rounded into the year 2000. I had started my path to a career as a childcare professional, but I still had one year to go as a Blockbuster manager. All 3 of my…
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Everything You Need to Know About Deschooling Before Unschooling
You’ve heard of unschooling, and you are ready to choose it for your family. You might even have started calling yourselves unschoolers already. But there’s this other word tripping you up. Deschooling. Deschooling is the first step to unschooling. Sadly,…
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The Power of a Name
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are the central characters of a Christian Bible story. They walk into a fiery furnace and then emerge unharmed. These characters took central stage in a church sermon I heard once about cult-behavior and the three…
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I’ve Discovered Where I Keep My Fucks
I’ve never had that many fucks to give. And I’ve also always given way too many fucks. It’s a conundrum. It’s that I’m depressed, I’m anxious, I’m an asshole thing that’s kind of hard to explain unless you, too, are…
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Those Sneaky 70s
This is the story of how the 70s sneaked up on me in a dark alley once. I was born in 1977, but it was well into the 80s before I had a sense of the passage of time and…
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Things Less Important
Originally published: 7/6/2011 On the morning of September 11th, 2001 I was a nanny for an infant I’ll call Chrissy. I was hanging out with Chrissy in the living room of her family’s home, watching a Little House on the…
