Coming to terms with being weak

“The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak”
Jacques Benigne Bossuel
For several months now, my life has been different from what it used to be. My husband and I are expecting our first child in early April. Of course I knew pregnancy throws curve balls at you and changes your life. I [...]

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Home sweet home?

Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.
John Ed Pearce
Somehow, it seems, there is a transition underway. One of the things that reflects that transition is the recurring theme of moving house.
A few months ago, my parents sold my childhood home and moved to a [...]

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Expectations

Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.
Henry David Thoreau
The story
So Mom and Dad came back from their trip to Vilnius, Lithuania, where they celebrated her 60th birthday. Naturally, I was eager to know how they’d spent the actual birthday, because I know that Mom wanted to do something special even [...]

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Tidbit Insightings, January 7

Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make clear
Joseph Joubert
Happy Birthday, Mom!
Today is my Mom’s 60th birthday. Congratulations, mom! Since she isn’t a real spotlight stealer, she and my Dad traveled away for a few days to celebrate the occasion. Tomorrow, when they come back, I’m planning on baking her a birthday cake [...]

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Tidbit Insightings, the Happy Holidays Edition

Less is more.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
A few tidbits before I crawl into my cave for a Christmas holiday and renounce any responsibility of things not concerning eating, sleeping, or looking both ways before crossing the street.
Balance, baby
After meeting my last deadline, I’ve been beat. Exhausted. Lethargic, even. For a few days I wondered why [...]

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