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Learning To Drive: Lesson: Road Rage

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6/29/18 You may or may not know this, but I’m a DFW transplant. Yes, after 20 plus years, this is my home. I’m a card carrying Tex-Mex loving, heat tolerating, blue bonnet squatting, Shiner drinking Texas gal. But at my core, I’m a small-town mountain gal. Yes, this does mean an absence of amazing Tex-Mex (No, Taco Bell does NOT count.) but it also means the absence of another thing. TRAFFIC.  When I first moved here, other than thinking Bonnie Raitt was country music, and barbecue was a backyard burger, I was completely unfamiliar with the concept of freeways, exit ramps, and most of all, ROAD RAGE. Many was the time I was that yokel, STOPPED on the ramp to the freeway, waiting for an opening to merge with 80 mile an hour traffic. Now, after years of experience, I can tell you exactly how to head east on North West Highway and get on to 75 South; I can tell you when to avoid the Dallas North Tollway; I can tell you to AL...
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Learning to Drive: Memory: Mile Markers

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5/21/18 I know I’ve been quiet for a while now. A lot of changes have happened and continue to happen. For starters, I’ve moved into an adorable converted carriage house in east Dallas. It’s just me, a new sofa (delivered tomorrow), the cat (and a couple of outdoor kitties who’ve taken a shine to me), and my future, whatever that holds. Several years ago, I heard a statement that resonated so strongly with me, it became a mile marker in my life. I used it as a parenting tool as well as a self-help mantra. “What you focus on expands.” It seems so simple, and it is. But recently the power of this phrase, and its deeper meaning has come to me on a new level. It’s moved me to my core. It’s another mile marker. This will come as no surprise to those who know me, but I was a very imagination-driven, romantically-inclined, book-loving child.   Every summer, empty backpack in tow, I’d ride my bike to the library and vow to “read them all”.   (I still hold t...
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Learning to Drive: Lesson: Precious Cargo

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4/12/18 "Your identity is not equivalent to your biography. There is a place where you have never been wounded, where there's a seamlessness in you, and where there is a confidence and tranquility in you, and I think the intention of prayer and spirituality and love is now and again to visit that inner kind of sanctuary." -John O'Donohue Some women have a natural gift of mothering. Others (And by that I mean me.) have to develop our skills and pray our children survive the efforts.  There is a consciousness that must be honed in motherhood; to always be aware of, and care for, our precious cargo. The first time I ever took my sweet daughter Jordyn out in the car alone, she was just over 1 year of age. (If you haven't caught on, I adopted this angel, or rather she adopted me.) I had no idea what I was doing, but I decided to fake it until I made it.  I put the carseat into the back seat of my car, and got her all buckled in, easy peasy!  Feeling ...
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