Karen on October 10th, 2009

It snowed today. Fell from the sky like a ghost coming from winter to spark us into the reality of the season. But is it even fall when it feels like we never really had a summer? Autumn crept in on stilts, sinking its tiny feet into the ground with days of cold and rain… [...]

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Karen on October 5th, 2009

Here are a couple of other poems I wrote in the poetry group I joined. On a roll here!
Victory
I have made it to the top
I know you didn’t think I could
but I always knew
with open arms I waited for this moment
and now with a tickle
of cloud-licked wind
I have arrived
to put it all behind me would
be [...]

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Karen on September 26th, 2009

For the most part, this is a positive blog. We try to focus on the best aspects of our family life. And the way that it’s presented here, it seems perfect… but we all know nothing is perfect. No matter how hard we try to have the perfect life, we all have to face challenges. [...]

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Karen on September 23rd, 2009

Now that it is officially autumn, weatherwise and calendar-wise, I have decided to include some poetry from a writing group that I am taking part of with a friend of mine from Gateway. (No, I don’t have enough on my plate with teaching 2 University of Phoenix classes back to back, teaching full time, riding [...]

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