Life Post-Book

Well, that was definitely not our last chapter. After I finished writing the book, literally days after, COVID happened. We will all remember March of 2020. Everything shut down, schools closed, businesses closed, and people retreated to their homes for much longer than humans should ever be apart from each …

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Chapter 18: Time

While change has happened at a glacial pace over the last 19 years, it has happened. For some inexplicable reason, change sped up in the past few years. I’ve mellowed, he’s mellowed, and our expectations of each other have mellowed. I think a lot of my contentedness can be attributed …

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Chapter 17: The Flip Side

My father’s responsibility and reliability were unparalleled. He not only provided for a family of seven, but he also took care of his mother’s nursing home costs, sent money to his siblings back in the Midwest, and put most of us through college or technical school. He took care of …

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Chapter 16: Parenting Challenges

Over the years, the trait of my husband’s that I’ve worried about most because of its potential effect on our children and their children’s children, if not understood properly, is his tendency to be unreasonably reasonable. When one parent vexes over all of the small stuff and consistently avoids being …

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