Tag: frustration
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Being Stuck Is Hard
I forget to collect the mail on occasion. Most things that come through the mail are ads, unasked-for periodicals, and pleas to vote for certain people. It’s that season. While John’s been gone, I didn’t bother to go to the mailbox down the street. Too many times on returning home from work it was pouring […]
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The Beet Went On
My friend Kourtney is a busy woman. With a husband and three sons and a job she enjoys, she manages to fill her days moving at near the speed of light. Until she couldn’t. Dashing through the grocery store to pick up food for her family, she rounded the produce aisle of a national store […]
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Just Go To Your Corners
They bicker constantly, and their voices can be heard throughout the house. It would be understandable if I was speaking of the kids. Or even adults. Being together constantly wears on everybody’s niceness after a while. I’m talking about the dogs. Aspen, the three-year-old male Lab, and Estes, the year-old female Australian shepherd. Their annoyance […]
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Confinement Is A Dirty Word
Memories come flooding back. I’ve done this before. Soccer tournaments were a mainstay of our family for years. We’d drive all over Florida and surrounding states as well as fly to several so our kids could compete for medals and trophies that now gather dust in our attic. But when invited by my daughter to […]
Tip of My Iceberg 