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Tag Archives: childhood
And Your TRUTH Shall Set You Free.
Deborah Cruz, better known as @TruthfulMommy, authors the often hilarious, sometimes make you cry, always brutally honest parenting site The TRUTH about Motherhood. She is the wife to her best friend, a writer, and … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Posts, Show Us Your Roots Guest Posts
Tagged abuse, alcoholism, authenticity, bipolar, book, childhood, Debi Cruz Beck, honesty, Motherhood The Truth, perfection, poetry, roots, silence, Thuthful Mommy, voice, vulnerability, writing
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In the Dark of Night
Today I am linking up with The Lightning & the Lightning-Bug for the prompt, “In the Dark of Night.” ************************************************** I tiptoe in to check on you, five crumpled dollar bills in my fist. You sleep hard, tangled up in sheets, … Continue reading
Posted in Favorite Posts, My Poetry
Tagged baby, childhood, growing up, izzy, LALB prompt, lightning & linghtning bug, loose tooth, tooth fairy
72 Comments
Where I’m From–New Orleans
Looking for my Storkie giveaway? CLICK HERE! I found this writing excercise via Galit Breen’s blog, These Little Waves, and she got it from Mama Kat. It’s been on my mind for awhile, but I’ve been distracted. Now it’s time. … Continue reading
Posted in Favorite Posts, My Poetry
Tagged aiming low, anxiety, bipolar disorder, childhood, Galit Breen, gay dad, George Ella Lyon, mama kat, New Orleans, poboys, poetry, red bean, writing prompt
43 Comments
Today Call Me Honored.
Today I’m honored to welcome my one of my bloggy crushes, Julie Gardner, of By Any Other Name. Julie is a writer, a mom to two children and some canines, and is a lover of books, tortilla chips and mascara. … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Posts
Tagged childhood, goodnight my someone, guest post, julie c. gardner, kids growing up, perfection, wondering
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I Remember
Linking up with Denise of Musings de Mommy for an “I remember” post. I remember my metal Wonder Woman lunch box with the matching thermos. Long gone now and sad I didn’t save it, because some days I sure could use a little Wonder … Continue reading
The Hair is Just Not Fair.
Today I’m doing The Red Dress Club prompt: jealousy. We all have it. We all feel it. Now we’d like you to write about it. We’ll leave it open: you can write about something/someone you envy, a time when jealousy … Continue reading
Posted in My Non-Fiction
Tagged childhood, hair, jealousy, red writing hood, The Red Dress Club
56 Comments
The Bully With the Brown Shoes
When I was six I met Bully Melanie. She wore brown shoes with scuffed up toes, the laces dirty, graying and often untied. Her brown hair was stick straight, flat against the sides of her chunky cheeks. Her squinty brown eyes bored into me, so I avoided them. Which is probably … Continue reading
Posted in My Non-Fiction
Tagged bully, childhood, elementary school, lunch, melanie, self esteem, stealing, the bully with the brown shoes, yeah write
32 Comments
Memoir Monday: Mr. JC, Mrs. Lucy, a Lizard Egg and a Seahorse; or, Life is Fragile.
It’s Memoir Monday, folks! Please write your own & link up with Travis over at I Like To Fish! When I was five years old, we lived in the grey house at 3003 Creole Drive in Houma, Louisiana, and had some … Continue reading
Baby You and Me Got A Groovy Kind of Love…
I was reading my friend Ami’s blog recently and one of her writing prompts mentioned the Phil Collins’ song “A Groovy Kind of Love.” Whenever I hear this song, I’m instantly 12 years old again, wearing my red UNITS outfit. … Continue reading
