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>November 2009 sixteen months

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>Gratitude

> “I’ve got money in my pocket I like the color of my hair I’ve got a friend who loves me got a house I’ve got a car I’ve got a good mother and her voice is what keeps me here feet on ground heart in hand facing forward ‘be yourself’ ~Jann Arden, “Good Mother”…

>Multiple personalities

>As I juggle two blogs, I often ask myself why I have two in the first place.  Isn’t one enough?  (Ok, I actually have three, but my Newbery project blog seems very separate from the writing I do about my life, so it doesn’t count for this conundrum.)  The reason I started this particular one…

>Free associations

>Ok, we’re going to do a fun little free-association game.  I’m going to write a word, and you’re going to say (or write or sign) the first word that comes into your mind right afterward.  It may help to cover the words below the one you’re on so that the later ones don’t influence your…

>Crankosaurus Rex

>The past few days have felt like a bad remake of those 80’s commercials about just saying no to drugs.  You know the ones:  “This is your brain.  This is your brain on drugs.”  Well, today I was sure I could hear the narrator’s voice saying to me, “This is your toddler…” “This is your…