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Fire Trucks are for Boys
This was the first time I realized that boys could do things that girls were not allowed to do and it was so not fair. My mom agreed and so her and my maternal Grandfather went out and bought me a tricycle
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Still 3 Songs full of Emotion
Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “still.” Use any definition of the word in your post. Have fun! The first thing to come to mind when I see the prompt “still” are songs. So I decided to share a few with you. Each of these songs like most music evokes memories across the decades for me. The first song “In the Still of the Night” brings memories of my late grandparents singing to each other as we would drive around in the car. The second “Still” brings up mixed memories of junior high school when the song came out and of my estranged husband. The third song “Still…
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5 Midlife Lessons on Letting It Go
All my life I have tried to be organized tried to be Martha Stewart, the Domestic Goddess. I even vacuumed in pearls once like June Cleaver. None of it worked. I was still me. Still a single mother, living in the hood, just trying to keep it all together with no clue of exactly what I was supposed to be doing.
