Time to Change
I need to focus on myself. I did a thing on Facebook, a “My year in Review” thing, and my husband asked me why I was so depressed. It wasn’t a terrible ye
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Author: damina
Random Thoughts
Warning
I decided I am going to start blogging more often. This is just a warning of that fact. I do not expect them to be read by anyone. No one reads them, nothing I write has views. That’s fine. I understand. Who am I anyway? My daughter is getting bullied on the bus by a…
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A Broken Story
Once there was a broken boy who lived a broken life. He didn’t know he was broken because he was strong and brave and true and kind. The broken boy loved with all of his heart, but did not give that love freely–the broken boy chose his loves carefully. The broken boy grew to…
Kinda Gross Melting Fat
Weight Loss Surgery
Weight Loss Surgery I’ve decided to lose some weight. Here is a way for me to keep track of my weight loss. I’m exercising (walking right now). I am also getting surgery. Yes, I know. “The easy way.” It’s not easy. It’s difficult. We have a thousand hoops to jump through, a million forms to…
Fun Stuff
One of My Favorite Things
I recently made my students answer a blog about something they are passionate about. “Pick a favorite thing,” I said, “and write about it.” I thought it’d be easy. I thought I was throwing them a bone. Oh the contention! Oh the horror! “It’s too hard to pick one thing!” They said. “I won’t be able to write enough about one thing!” They cried. So I went about giving it a try.
Kinda Gross
Things you can do with placenta
I’ve got to start this by saying: I have never made anything out of my placenta. Usually the hospital takes it away. During a home birth, it is up to the parent to do away with it. We just threw ours in the trash. (Which still grosses me out, because now a piece of my…