january blog chain: winter nightmare

This post is part of the January 2012 Blog Chain at Absolute Write. This month’s prompt: Winter Nightmare Another broad one: go wherever the prompt takes you. It can be fiction or non-fiction, the nightmare can be Cthulhu or just a struggle with a troublesome …

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real mothers

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I am just a mother of children, gathering in chicks from wandering flocks. - About Last Night, from A Succor for Writing   This quote has wedged itself in my brain.   Non-triads often ask, “Who’s her real mother?” (referring to my girls) …

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honoring our kids’ first families

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    With an injured finger, it took me over six hours to wrap our kids’ presents. I did it in two shifts and didn’t finish until nearly midnight. It took them about thirty minutes to undo all the work …

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