Category: The Samantha Years
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Chocolates
My Grandma Dodie had a birthday last week…..I think she turned 87. How awful am I that I can’t remember if Dodie is 86 or 87? Bad Grandaughter. Back in the day, my Dodie was fabulous. She taught me how to dance by standing on her feet in her kitchen. She and my Popa always…
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Learning Moments
I was planning on posting about our wonderful weekend in Beaver Creek and the fact that mama can’t do the bumps the way she used to…. This will come soon but something else has occupied my left frontal lobe…it’s taking up too much space so I must purge. It’s a good purge. We got home…
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Stay at Home Sentence
Get Born Magazine is looking for ‘firsts’ for their Spring publication…..not sure if this will make the cut but this is my essay on when I first realized I needed to be a stay at home mom….. Stay at Home Sentence: We sat across from each other in the ICU. Our 6 month old was…
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I Have a Dream
I sometimes forget when the working world has a national holiday…. I also sometimes hold full-length conversations with myself. Today I was remembering the national holiday and talking to myself…. 9:00 this morning I remembered it was Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday. Quite a man. Do you know he was only 39 when he was…
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Pat, God and Haiti
Haiti has been on my mind. Haiti has probably been on your mind too. I have tried to put my feeling to words but sometimes things are just too awful to verbalize. So I have said nothing. But then Pat Robertson said something….putting words to my emotions. In case you missed it, Pat said the…
Samsmom: Life, Joy, Loss and Loving your Mitochondria 