Try That in a Small Town.

I live in a small town. We’re on the easternmost edge of a major metropolitan city. This City is maybe 30 minutes away, yet we consider ourselves a rural area. Sure, the locals page has posts about pigs and goats wandering the highway, but we’re not far from civilization. Our town is a strange mix…

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Do Better Estacada, Do better!!

It’s been a while since words have called me. A lot has changed in my life since I last put pen to paper, or in this case, text to screen! Things are moving forward in a positive direction, and are genuinely looking up! One place I do not see life improving is my community. Since…

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Second Chance

Choices are a part of life. It’s inevitable that at some point, we will be presented with a choice that will profoundly affect the rest of our lives. Often, once this choice is made, it can’t be undone. You might as well pour gasoline and toss a match on that bridge as you walk away….

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Sunbeams and Lilys.

Holidays. They’re days every child looks forward to and most adults dread. If you don’t dread holidays it’s likely because you are a well-adjusted human with people who love you. It’s sad actually, that many of us do not have that. So we either ignore the holiday as if it doesn’t exist or spend the…

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Is Content Enough?

When I think of relationships, I think of two people who love each other. They’re partners in every way; they do their best to ease their partner’s burden, lift them up when they’re feeling down, and share advice and direction when one is drifting. To me, a true partnership is one in which two people…

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Hope

Hope: defined by Merriam-Webster, as “to cherish a desire with anticipation: to want something to happen or be true.” I’ve spent the last couple of years of my life in hopeless despair. For the first year, I was so depressed, that I couldn’t find a reason to continue. My friends soon tired of my depression and…

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The Dragon and my Heart

When I was a child and my grandfather was still alive, our family, aunts, uncles, and cousins, would venture to the next town periodically for Chinese Food. I remember two things about those meals; the soup with the noodles that had a piece of meat in the middle, which I now know is wonton soup,…

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What is family?

Once when I was about 13, my family decided we needed to drive from California to New York. My aunt and cousins lived in New York, and my father’s family lived in Missouri. There were other stops along the way, sights, random family members I never knew existed, etc. So they purchased a motor home…

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Tough Love is Not Love

I have never understood the theory behind tough love. To me, it just seems to be a phrase used to disguise abuse, to gaslight the victim into thinking that there is indeed something wrong with them and your friends and family are just trying to help you by telling you that you’re a piece of…

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Text – Pathway to frustration

I remember before smartphones, I hated texting. I refused to do it as you had to use the number keys on the phone for letters. Screen keyboards on the phone hadn’t been invented yet, and you were charged for each text sent. Most people didn’t use text at that time. It was more effort than…

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