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When Silence Gets Too Hard To Handle

December 3, 2014 Crankygiraffe17 Comments

I'm not good at standing back and waiting.  I've been struggling with this task more than I thought I would.  I just don't know how to handle it anymore. My instinct is to talk, to work it out, to find resolution.  But, I just don't think that is right this time.  I know this is my struggle,… Continue reading When Silence Gets Too Hard To Handle

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Missing A Blogging Friend

November 9, 2013November 7, 2013 Crankygiraffe8 Comments

I have many blogging friends.  Like most relationships, blogging relationships wax and wane.  You find out that you have things in common with certain people and you bond over that.  Maybe people aren't exactly who or what you thought they were.  And that's okay.  Blogging allows for a different kind of relationship: a long distance… Continue reading Missing A Blogging Friend

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Text-Pal

July 14, 2013May 30, 2014 Crankygiraffe2 Comments

I remember in elementary school having a pen-pal.  We did it through school, where our entire class was matched up with another class somewhere on the other side of the country, and we'd write letters back and forth.  What did we have to talk about in second grade?  Our teachers?  What fun things we did… Continue reading Text-Pal

Emotional Baggage

What If?

July 10, 2013May 30, 2014 CrankygiraffeLeave a comment

What if suddenly everything was different? What you knew before just wasn't the same. Everything you thought you were was no longer the case. In a single moment you were not yourself anymore. Your identity is missing from here on in. You don't want to believe it, but deep down, you think maybe it's true.… Continue reading What If?

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What Happened to Consideration?

June 18, 2013February 3, 2014 Crankygiraffe9 Comments

I was having in interesting conversation with K the other day. We were talking about some aspects of my clerkship. Here are a few pertinent excerpts: I really shouldn't complain because I know that it's my turn to be at the bottom. I think what was really the most irritating was feeling like there was… Continue reading What Happened to Consideration?

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Blogger Friends Got Ideas!

Yesterday, after my Alter Ego, Cranky Giraffe, posted about my son’s crazy little love letter to his newest idol, Lady Gaga, an old old blogging friend tweeted it, with an idea that maybe he could meet her!  I know the likelihood of it being re-tweeted by anyone other than myself is pretty low… But who […]

It’s Been a Long Time…

“It’s been a long time since I came around Been a long time but I’m back in town And this time I’m not leaving without you” ~Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga) I know I haven’t been here blogging for quite a long time (almost a year and a half…), but there was something about blogging that […]

The Common Sense Problem

The airplane seat map shows that the emergency exit row seats are considered “less desirable.” It’s a little ironic since they come with extra leg room, even if they don’t recline (really, who needs to recline 2 inches when you have two extra feet of leg room?). I think the real reason they are less […]

Walking Tall

This month I’m traveling around the country to check out fellowship positions. It is exhausting, trying, lonely, and often confusing. Most of all, I miss my kids. I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how fellowship and moving to one of these places would fit into the current, ideal, little life of […]

Happiness, Please

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth.  We are happy when we are growing. ~John Butler Yeats, 1909 Is there a difference between pleasure and happiness? I had never really thought much about it until today.  My husband sent me an interview by Dr. Robert Lustig, who just […]

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