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When All the World Was Spinning {Poetry}

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It was but a moment in time, when all the world was spinning, a spinning, flashing roller rink, of Don’t Stop Believin’, and Take It On The Run, baby, and long Farrah Fawcett feathered hair, and tight designer jeans, and cigarettes, and sneaking around, and all those little lies we told each other, about who […]

The Mothering Thing

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Husbands, partners, wives…be good to us. Love us well. We are your women. We are the mothers. And we hold an entire ocean of emotion inside.    So, please. Just love us well. Give back some of the love we give out. Give it freely, and give it often. We need it more than you know. We crave it more than […]

I Will Rise

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Today, I will rise. I will channel my inner Tammy Duckworth, my inner Tammie Jo Shults, and rise. I will rise despite obstacles, despite feelings. I will rise despite my depression, my disease, my diagnosis. I will rise despite the raging waters that slap at my doors, and the sandbags tied to my feet. I […]