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This post doesn’t deserve a title

Oh right, now I remember why doing NaBloPoMo is so challenging! It's every single day for a month! You'd think it'd be in the name or something as a reminder.

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{2e Tuesday} Launching the twice-exceptional young adult

It's not as though there's a handbook to this young adult stage of life, and even if there were, our G2e kids are never in those books so it wouldn't help anyway.

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It’s the first day of November! You know what that means!

It's a month of exciting opportunities! Time to loosen up the typing knuckles, talk to our imaginary friends, and let the razors pout in the corner.

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Time has no meaning

And other things I’ve been telling myself Today’s the eleventy billionth day of March 2020 and you can’t convince me otherwise. The terrifying start of this…

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E is for Expert

So again I ask. What makes an expert? Perspective matters.

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Return to familiar

I heard someone recently refer to this time as "returning to familiar" instead of "returning to normal." I heartily agree not only because these times are anything but normal, but also because I've learned through hard-earned experience that normal is a candy-coated illusion.

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A love story by the calendar

We interrupt this unplanned hiatus for a love story. Everyone appreciates a good love story, right? Fall 1992. I was practicing in the music building basement,…

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D is for Doubt

The doubts are loud, they are normal, and they lie. We, all of us parenting G2e kids, are doing the best we can with what we have at the time.

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Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit

I first learned about the rabbit rabbit rabbit superstition at summer camp as a young teen. If it’s the first thing you say on the first…

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So why a blog?…revisited

5579 days ago I opened up a Blogger account and started writing; a touch over 15 years if you’re not up to thinking today. A lifetime…

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