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Serenity
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity Serenity: The state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled. Have a nice weekend! Continue reading
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Daily Prompt (From Yesterday)- Page 82 Stress
Yesterday’s Daily Prompt from the Daily Post read: Open your nearest book to page 82. Take the third full sentence on the page, and work it into a post somehow. I love prompts where you have to do random stuff like this. Since I am the self-proclaimed “Blogger Without a Cause,” a rebel amongst the Continue reading
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Reflections- Weekly Photo Challenge
The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge is “reflections.” You can see the Challenge and the other entries here. I have two photos. Have a nice night! Continue reading
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“Happy My Teeth”
My eight-year-old son, M., has autism. For an autistic kid, M. is very in tune with other people’s feelings. He shows a great amount of empathy. He gets very upset when others are upset. For example, when our house gets loud or we’re arguing with M.’s older brother JC, M. gets very unsettled. He starts to Continue reading
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Valentine’s Day Haters’ Club – Daily Post Weekly Writing Challenge
I adjusted my black scarf over my black coat and rubbed my cold hands over my thighs, covered by my black jeans. Maybe an outdoor protest on the coldest day of the year wasn’t the smartest idea, I thought, as I called the group over. “Alright,” I said, as we huddled together. “Let’s circle again. Continue reading
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Sweet Defiance
My son, JC, who turns 10 at the end of the month, has what he calls “interests.” These “interests” range from particular types of jellyfish (the arctic comb jelly is his current favorite) to Star Wars, to his favorite app, Minecraft. During the life span of any one of his “interests,” he likes to research Continue reading
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Elf Stress
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the popular Elf on a Shelf bonanza that happens every Christmas, let me briefly explain. Some genius came up with the idea to make a toy Elf that comes to your house Thanksgiving night and makes himself at home. This Elf supposedly watches the kids and then Continue reading
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Pickles, Pretzels and Piffle
Originally posted on Blue Stocking G'ma: I had the distinct pleasure of spending the night with my 3 year old grandson this week. I have not done this before and did not know what to expect. We decided to “camp out”. That’s where you pull out the sofa bed in the living room and… Continue reading
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Dad’s “Magic”- A Guest Post by Linda (My Mom)
Hi Everyone! I’m still busy NaNo-ing. So far I’m doing well and I’m on track to finish. “Embracing the suck,” as they say. In the meantime, WOAW keeps chugging along with a guest post by my mother, Linda. You may recall that I wrote this post about my grandfather, my Gido. That’s my mom’s dad. Continue reading
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Wedding Memories
Today, the Daily Post published a post titled, “One Topic, Three Takes: Weddings.” The post offered suggestions for bloggers to find new ways to post on old topics. Ben, of the Daily Post, used weddings as an example. Despite the frequency of wedding posts, Ben illustrated how the topic could be refreshed by highlighting authors who offered new style, Continue reading
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