Value
My value does not come from the approbation of those around me, even when it is appreciated. My value does not come from my high standing...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Sep 25, 2023
- 1 min
Charlie
I love them; I love words. I can read a well-turned phrase, over and over, delighting in its structure and the sound on my tongue. None...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Jun 12, 2023
- 11 min
Guilty As Charged
How much of ourselves do we owe our children? When I became a mother, how much of myself did I promise? When I became a mother of two? Of...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Jan 24, 2023
- 3 min
Hanging Pictures at One AM
We laughed at my parents for their hobby, of hanging pictures at midnight, one and two AM. We could hear them downstairs, ourselves...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Dec 10, 2022
- 7 min
What is Success to YOU?
"Are they all yours?" "Oh, you home school?" "You're already back to work? "Are you done?" "Are you sure you want her to be an only...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Oct 30, 2022
- 7 min
My Children Are Allowed To Be Children
I have been a mother for eleven years. I have grown and changed in a multitude of ways throughout this time, yet there always remains so...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Sep 9, 2022
- 3 min
Curator
My children are the masterpieces I suspend on the walls of the museum I curate on a daily basis. The museum is our family life that we...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Aug 15, 2022
- 7 min
On Edge
I thought of a word earlier tonight that represents how I have been feeling with parenting recently: floundering. I told my husband today...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Aug 4, 2022
- 9 min
Heartbroken
The abortion debate is… complicated. heated. saddening. infuriating. disgusting. angering. There does not seem to be a meeting place in...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Jul 25, 2022
- 1 min
One Month Postpartum
(I have been unable to commit any time to writing in these last few weeks. Here is an unedited small snippet I wrote down in the thick of...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Jun 23, 2022
- 4 min
"Constant Baby"
If my spouse treated me the way my baby does, it would be considered abusive. But it's my baby, so it's not. I think I experience many...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- May 19, 2022
- 5 min
I Like To Mow
My grandmother on my father's side was a home economics teacher. My mother wanted to stop working to be a homemaker even before children...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Apr 20, 2022
- 3 min
Be Kind
It happened again a few weeks ago, and this time I couldn't resist commenting. A woman shared in a social media group asking if anyone...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Mar 31, 2022
- 4 min
Resignation Letter
My breaking point arrived the day I agreed one too many times to cover a shift for my co-workers, knowing the disaster it would create at...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Mar 6, 2022
- 4 min
Talk About It
Do you remember the woman I described to you, soaking in every second of her daughter's ballet class with delight? She is living her...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Feb 14, 2022
- 1 min
Buried
I have had an extremely full week and have been unable to put any energy into writing. Here is a poem I wrote a few years ago though!...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Feb 4, 2022
- 7 min
The Parenting Spectrum
It was challenging to accept that the mother I am is 'alright' to be. As I stated before (link at bottom of page), the majority of...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Jan 24, 2022
- 12 min
My Eleven Year Journey
I originally began writing this post to explain the difficult journey I traveled to accept my role as a mother, but in attempting to...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Jan 17, 2022
- 5 min
I Am Where I Want To Be
Contrary to how my first post may have made it sound (link at bottom of page), I am where I want to be. For the first time in ten years...
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fiveminutespeace5m
- Jan 14, 2022
- 4 min
Women Are Better Caregivers
I would like to respond to this confidently spoken statement by a man I know. Sure in his belief of the veracity of his statement, I...
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