Tag Archives: Pregnancy
My Dad is a crier, a total bawler --and not the kind rap stars refer to. He is the Dad who can’t watch a commercial about family, daughters, wives, dogs, cats, basketball wins or anything where an injustice might be shown. He will well up and you won’t be able to talk to him for a few min ...
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There are places of loud. There are places of silence. These places are in the world and in the soul. I have a favorite beach that combines both of these. It is on the North Shore of Oahu. There is a beautiful palm tree that gently kisses the sand, ...
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I laid perfectly still for 3 days. I sang to my stomach. I hoped that the one little, perfect embryo would know of our love for it and hang on tight. We waited those two weeks with baited breath, hoping that my blood test would in fact show I was pregnant. I quietly got up from my desk at wo ...
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It was odd that no one else got food poisoning that day. Maybe my chicken was undercooked? A bad smore? The throw ups hadn’t lasted very long and they were strange in nature. I went from lying in bed to “I’m gonna lose my cookies ASAP!” Then it was over as quickly as it came. Weird was ...
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I was going through some old boxes the other day, and found needles and a bottle of pills. While this sounds a little like something you would find in dark alleys with rainy awnings, the locating of these items made me cry. They were my old tools. Tools like a carpenter would use to build somethi ...
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