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Tag: #IAM

  • ENUFF… shouldn’t it be spelled that way?

    I guess however you spell it the notion of not being enough has been like a sharp piece of glass I stepped on when I was about seven years old and for the next forty five years have had stuck in my foot. Some days if you were to watch me go through life you’d…

  • Slowdown syndrome. It’s a thing.

    There is ALWAYS something to do. Correction: there is always something that NEEDS to be done. My mom had “stay at home mom” down to a science. Mondays were wash “the whites” laundry days, Tuesdays hands and knees scrub the kitchen floor, Wednesdays food shopping and dust the furniture, Thursdays strip the beds, Fridays homemade…

  • The wrong wall came down.

    The wrong wall came down.

    I think you probably get my reference. If not you can comment below and I’ll explain, but in all seriousness we knew this wall would be knocked down before I even started to paint it. Why? Why wouldn’t I paint another wall. Something more permanent? Because nothing is permanent. Everything changes and it is our…

  • Break out the bathing suit.

    Memorial Day weekend. Even though I live in Florida and can go to the beach any day of the year, it still ended up marking the day to pull out the bathing suit, see if it fit, and decide how I would define my body image this summer? Would the runway judges in my head be…

  • You’re OK, when you say you are.

    I’m 49 years old and I’ve spent most of my post adolescent life searching for approval. From everyone. Friends, co-workers, family, partners, sometimes even the barista at Starbucks or the cashier at 7Eleven. I go to these places several times a week, do they like me? Does the cashier at 7Eleven who called me sir…