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It all comes back to – or starts with – childhood

January 17, 2018 by Jessica 6 Comments

Five years ago, in January 2013, shortly before I was to turn 40, I experienced something of a seismic shift from which I’m still feeling aftershocks. In the space of just a few weeks, I had the opportunity to interview three amazing people and be present to the same message told from three different perspectives:…

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Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: child, childhood, depression, doubt, fatigue, healing, hope, illness, Lyme Disease, mindfulness, parenting, trauma, yoga

Pulling the plug on BlogHer14

July 17, 2014 by Jessica 2 Comments

It is with an ache in my gut — literally — that I have to come to terms with the fact that I am not going to BlogHer ’14. I had to believe the trip was possible when I bought the ticket. We’d had two snow days that week (including my birthday. What a rockin’…

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Filed Under: Featured, The Arts Tagged With: BlogHer, BlogHer'14, digestion, dreams, family, gut, health, illness, priorities, travel, work, writing

Longest month ever: November illnesses befuddle

November 26, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

It feels like about 90 days since I woke on November 1 with the intention of blogging every day for NaBloPoMo and working on my novel every day for NaNoWriMo. I made it three days for sure (maybe more that I didn’t tag!) had some great and productive mornings, but I have also been sidelined…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: attitude, faith, fever, health, illness, priorities, sickness

The floor that broke the Corelle plate — Musings on so many sick days

November 14, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

This is what I wrote at 6:15 a.m. and expected to post at 7:50 a.m. once both kids were on their way to school with their dad. It’s now 9:13 p.m. I guess that didn’t happen. But here goes nothin’. *** I’m taking bLOG literally here, as in log. As in, I want to document…

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Filed Under: Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: homeschooling, illness

The desire to write: swallow and spit

November 2, 2013 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Some might say if you can’t reflect, then just live instead. I like the concept, but in practice, it drives me crazy. How people live and live and live and manage to be happy only posting about it on Facebook and not writing about it in long form — or to at least have time…

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Filed Under: Featured, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: childcare, illness, NaNoWriMo, NoBloPoMo, priorities, writing, writing mama, writing mother

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