A 24 hour wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am (aside: that’s a horrible phrase, WTF) college visit to my alma mater behind us, I’m exhausted. Jack liked the campus, liked the…
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Laughing at Chaos Posts
We got one kid off to college and boom we’re in the thick of it again. I’m on the road with Jack tonight, traveling to my…
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Oh right, now I remember why doing NaBloPoMo is so challenging! It’s every single day for a month! You’d think it’d be in the name or something as a reminder.
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It’s not as though there’s a handbook to this young adult stage of life, and even if there were, our G2e kids are never in those books so it wouldn’t help anyway.
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It’s a month of exciting opportunities! Time to loosen up the typing knuckles, talk to our imaginary friends, and let the razors pout in the corner.
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And other things I’ve been telling myself Today’s the eleventy billionth day of March 2020 and you can’t convince me otherwise. The terrifying start of this…
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So again I ask. What makes an expert? Perspective matters.
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I heard someone recently refer to this time as “returning to familiar” instead of “returning to normal.” I heartily agree not only because these times are anything but normal, but also because I’ve learned through hard-earned experience that normal is a candy-coated illusion.
1 CommentWe interrupt this unplanned hiatus for a love story. Everyone appreciates a good love story, right? Fall 1992. I was practicing in the music building basement,…
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The doubts are loud, they are normal, and they lie. We, all of us parenting G2e kids, are doing the best we can with what we have at the time.
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