Tag: dad
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Wish That
Sometime toward the beginning of this year, my roommate was listening to a teaching (that’s the over-simplification of what it was) and the speaker was using the example of certain types of cicadas that come out every 17 years and then asked the listeners what they were doing 17 years ago since the world looks…
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A Whole Lifetime (A Letter to my Dad)
*** I would apologize that I have been MIA after promising to post once a week, but in my defense, I did start writing a story again! Also, I am currently on our annual “besties trip” and have had some weird life things happen that I will not be visiting during this post. However, maybe…
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Beef jerky grief
Last week, June 14, was the 10-year anniversary of my dad’s death. I felt fine leading up to the day and even after my uncle and grandpa arrived in town for the weekend. My uncle, grandpa and I went to Manhattan, Kansas, and for the first time in 10 years, I visited my dad’s gravesite.…
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One Generation To The Next
This post will probably be shorter, since I’m on my phone and don’t have my keyboard and tend to say slightly less when that happens. But this was something I started to write for somewhere else and decided it would be better suited here. My grandma passed away earlier tonight. The above picture was in…
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Memorial Day Thoughts
Last night, I did some beta-reading for a friend of mine and then went to bed. Although that doesn’t usually bode well for my sleep, I did it anyway. If I read anything before bed, I have to have a time of unwinding, which is usually just listening to music and thinking about what I…
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