I am so happy to be presenting today’s guest blogger. He is not only funny but I really love his attitude about life and family. I have a soft spot for present, loving, and silly fathers and I encourage you to check out his blog where you can follow his adventures in fatherhood. Please support…
It’s been a little over 25 years since my husband and I became a couple. I wrote this a year ago and it still holds as true today as it did then. I am NOT an endings kind of girl. Chances are if I ever loved you in any way then I still do; I…
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I think marriage is sometimes like being in a horror film. Communication stops and it feels as if you are a ghost trapped inside the confines of a broken down house. The best part about a horror film though, is the ending… if you aren’t afraid to sit through it all. It can…
Take some time and check out this new duet partner. Thank you for writing with me WBDEEJAY Written by WBDEEJAY AND HASTYWORDS What do we have? There is a ring on your finger Twenty years of history have flowed through it That hand still holds mine Still searches for me Absentmindedly What do we…
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I remember writing this the night my husband returned home from Iraq, it was his third and last homecoming from that faraway place . . . He’s since retired, the sight if those boots laying there was one of the most beautiful things I can remember seeing. Dust from…
I wrote this post originally in May of 2012. The memories I had trouble classifying when I wrote this post somehow ended up where they needed to be over time. I believe emotional wounds are like physical wounds. If we keep dwelling and fueling our heartache by listening to certain music, looking at certain pictures,…
I am sleeping with a comfortable stranger, recognizable features, soothing snore; but you’re not same man I met over two decades ago. Like two ghosts sharing the same spaces, we rarely collide anymore; we just gave up trying and ended up simply co-existing. I long to lie in your arms once more, feeling your…
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I came across a very well-worn teddy bear the other day. An eye was missing, stuffing was exposed, and something had been spilled on it matting its hair. I started to wonder what in the heck had this poor bear been through to end up so battered but I was sidetracked before I gave…
DPChallenge – Power of Names I love traditions. I love to keep them and l love to create them. I think sometimes that my entire day is planned around tradition. Some people might call them routines but if you stick with a routine long enough it becomes tradition. My family didn’t really have a strong…
I didn’t really know my Grandparents very well, I mean… I did lots of fun things with them but to sit and talk with them and get to really know them isn’t something I ever got to do. They both died in their early 60’s when I was barely 20. So I am left with…
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