Book Review: It Takes a Village to Kill Your Husband

It Takes a Village to Kill Your Husband by Jethro Collins Available: Kindle $2.99 and Paperback $9.49 This was just the brain candy that I needed to get me ready for the holidays. After a semester of reading literature to analyze for my students, I really needed this book. It was fun and flirty and …

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Another Momma Song

She gave me life, She never let me know how insane I was, Or made me grow mean instead of up, She still takes me to the dentist, And lets me get teddy bears to hold and cuddle, She laughs with me,  and loves my friends, bears with my animals, She talks and cries with …

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Second Day of Gratitude

I am grateful for my depression. Grateful for the moments of joy that I feel in between the lows create by years of ugly mental paradigms, negative self-talk and off kilter brain chemistry. It makes me appreciate the friends new and old who have stuck by my side when my brain has been in a …

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The Days of Gratitude

Some of my friends are posting daily on Facebook what they are most grateful for this year.  Every day this month, they have posted things they are grateful for and each time I have read one of their posts a smile comes across my face. I love them, but haven't replicated them or create my own …

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Darn you… Disney…

We have achieved Kickstarter success and descended into teacher hell. The good, the bad and the what the hell have all blended into one.  My heart still leaps for joy when I think about the having the money to give Blood Child a professional touch.  It really is a dream come true. Then I go …

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Two Faces

Two faces, two loves deep in my heart, Two beds to find pleasure in, but one a home provides. The other a dream, a memory of what could have been, But never was.. Two faces, two loves, one heart breaking, Logic and love rarely agree, emotions unsure of themselves, One offers a life, hard, but …

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School Year Begins Again

This is going to be a mini-post. Nothing more than a string of thoughts binding together an experience yet to come. This morning, I start the school year again. Things have changed and they have stayed the same. I am nervous and comfortable at this point with the first day of school. I have prepared …

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Muse

Loathing that which you inspire Is no way to thank the deities that made you mesmerizing and intoxicating Thoughts of you drive me insane and from the depth of that sorrowful longing Something lovely is birthed. A poem, a song or a dashing hero to save the day and break the heroine's heart. Happy endings are …

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