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Do I Write or Do I Garden?

Posted on October 6, 2020 by wordhabit

If any of these good looking dark green, deep red, light green, thin, fat, lanky, abundant air cleansers, butterfly attracters, and deer candy end up in the heap of compost behind our fence, I’ll have a few really bad days all in a row.

I don’t have enough time for even one.

I guess what I’m saying is that I’m not going to write tonight.

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Hello, Sir.

Posted on July 18, 2020 by wordhabit

I think that’s how I would have addressed youif I’d met youthis side of the Jordan If I cared more about historyI would have admired you longer;I’ve missed out. But my children will hear about you.Tomorrow I’ll tell their 5 and 3 year old heartsA story of non-trendy grit. They’ll askWhat color is he?and I’ll…

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The Curse of Being Present Yet Unseen

Posted on July 2, 2020 by wordhabit

It was somewhere between 2011 and 2013, I’d guess. I was married but didn’t have any children so it was easy to agree to middle-of-the-day activities. I served as an elder in my church and volunteered, along with another elder to take Communion to someone who couldn’t attend our worship services. The other elder was…

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Loneliness

Posted on June 19, 2020 by wordhabit

(From my latest podcast episode. Click here to listen: https://apple.co/2BmmB6o) One listener wrote the following: “In short, loneliness encompasses my life from the past 3-6 months, but really even throughout this past year. The changes happened abruptly. Friends and family moved away. Friends hit life milestones, while I was over here wishing I could be…

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It’s hard to parent at night.

Posted on May 19, 2020 by wordhabit

Unconsciously, I’d thought this was a performance. You do the hard prep work, you birth the child and then… Apparently I was waiting for someone to applaud and hand me flowers. They never showed up.

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Scattered thoughts on grief and memory

Posted on April 21, 2020 by wordhabit

I needed to be alone–it was all too much and just so strange.

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Is a rock solid romance a real thing?

Posted on April 20, 2020 by wordhabit

Is a rock solid romance a real thing? The quick answer is a sharp, “No”. Now listen in.

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