Tag: professional
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Grace
Grace is an interesting word. I had an English teacher in middle school that taught us to diagram sentences; to label the words as verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, pronouns and so on. I loved writing, but I didn’t particularly enjoy breaking down the written works and deliberating over the proper use and placement. I was…
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Dickhead Dave
Write, write, write. My gut, my brain keeps telling me to put my thoughts on paper. This is how it has been my entire life. I’m not a great writer, I am an honest writer. Putting my thoughts on paper somehow puts my mind at ease and stops the words that race around in my…
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I Wear His Flannel Not His Rank
I pulled on his black and white flannel shirt this morning. The one I bought him when we did family pictures in December of 2015. That was seven years ago now. All six boys had coordinating flannels. The girls in their cream cardigans. That was at the tail end of his CO tour with the…
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The Truth About June Cleaver in All of Us
Kids say the darndest things, at least mine do, they have no filter. As a contracts professional I have spent years barely showing up at school to anything. Couple a career with an anxious mind and that is a cocktail for the “missing mom”. I always manage the important things somehow, but never have I…
The Chance Chatter of Chameleons 