Category Archives: addiction

I Miss the Anger

Posted on October 6, 2017 by mama one to three

The headline crowded the screen of my phone. I hadn’t meant to check the news, but it was there when I swiped for the weather. These things always take a moment to sink in. I didn’t do what we are … Continue reading →

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Unsteady Trajectory

Posted on March 5, 2015 by mama one to three

Some mornings I ignore email until my kids are in their classrooms and I have returned, coffee in hand, to sit at my laptop at the kitchen counter. Others, I am unable to keep my fingers off my phone the … Continue reading →

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Overcome

Posted on August 13, 2014 by mama one to three

(The following in italics is from a memoir project.) I sit in the kids’ room as they sleep and I think that a bottle of pills and a glass of wine might do the trick. I have plenty of both. … Continue reading →

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