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Helping her helps me

I skulk into CVS and head straight for the Family Planning aisle. I scan the shelves of pregnancy tests and tampons, condoms and intimate gels. What I seek has to be here somewhere. My cheeks feel...

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Surviving childhood and other lost arts

I once had an argument of sorts with my son. It started when I told him he had to put on his helmet. “If it has wheels, you’re wearing a helmet,” I said. He looked at me with a mixture of pity and...

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These are the Things that are Measured

I am terrified that I will not measure up. That my best will not be Best Enough, Or even close at all. I am terrified that I will fail Life. Or my son. I mean, its one thing to fail me. I’ve had a lot...

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Trusting the Devil

It’s a pretty typical night in my home. My kids are having a play date with a couple of their friends. Happy shrieks are erupting from their room. Their dad is perched on a bar stool at the kitchen...

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I am Vicky

One of my favorite movies as a kid was “The Parent Trap” with Hayley Mills playing identical twins separated as infants when their parents divorced, who meet each other years later at summer camp. I...

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October 2-8 is Mental Health Awareness Week — my top ten IEP tips

The fall 2015 issue of the National Alliance on Mental Illness or NAMI’s publication, “Advocate,” had an excellent one page article with information and tips to help understand and create an IEP should...

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My girl… going, going, going… gone

My girl wants to go, meaning she no longer wants to be here. She no longer wants to be on this planet, which means she doesn’t want to be with me — the collateral damage I know she can’t consider. She...

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Me at 30, she at 30

Today, I reach a major life milestone: a Big Birthday, one that ends in “0.” But not mine. My daughter’s. And that makes it ever so much bigger. My baby is turning 30! My youngest! How can this be!...

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Before the coffee is even poured

Thirteen. Somehow in my hazy sleep-deprived state, I manage to count how many times my son Nolan asked me to make him a cup of chocolate milk. In the dinosaur cup. The same one he uses every day. If he...

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