Tag: motherhood

  • A Bearable Lightness of Being

    A Bearable Lightness of Being

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    Lorna Tedder
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    Not getting slammed for a change While everyone else seems to be crashing around me, I’m not having a bad time. Maybe I’ve done my share for the past few years (at least definitely since March of 2005!) and the meaner stars in the sky are focusing on other people right now. I understand the…

  • A Note to Cherish

    A Note to Cherish

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    Lorna Tedder
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    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Truth. My mom received the copy of Dark Revelations that I’d sent her a few days ago. I’ve had her connected to the Real World through the lifeline of email and Internet for over a year now and we’re able to stay in touch and…

  • Screwdriver Slinger?

    Screwdriver Slinger?

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    Lorna Tedder
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    Yesterday, a male reader wrote me about an old entry from my archives, one where I talked about a trip to the hardware store to buy an axe and the resulting Pavlovian response of the men I encountered there. He writes, “The fact that you were at a hardware store, with normal clothes and a…

  • “Ewwww,” She Said.

    “Ewwww,” She Said.

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    Lorna Tedder
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    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Crimes to the Third Degree. “Eeeeeewwwww,” Shannon said under her breath while we were taking a walk down a neighboring street. She looks over her shoulder at some guy about 35 who is doing yard work late in the afternoon. The guy’s just said hi to me and…

  • The Little Differences Make the Best Memories

    The Little Differences Make the Best Memories

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    Lorna Tedder
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    Christmas Past, a blur I don’t remember the ghosts of many a Christmas Past. They’re so often a blur of fast and frantic road trips, my mom’s chicken and dressing with cranberry sauce and her sweet potato pie with little marshmallows on top, my dad not speaking to anyone other than a grunt of acknowledgment…

  • Matriarchy

    Matriarchy

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    Lorna Tedder
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    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree of Freedom. I’m sick. It happened in the usual way. I let myself get run down, caught a bug—and now it’s squashed me. On the third day, I lie on the sofa, unable to lift my head without a sudden rush of nausea and hardly feeling…

  • I Know How the Virgin Mary Felt

    I Know How the Virgin Mary Felt

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    Lorna Tedder
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    Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Life in the Third Degree. My grandfather has just personally delivered some truly shocking news. Most people would think it quite shocking enough to know that Granddaddy died nine years, ten months, and 29 days ago at the age of 90. Oh, but it just gets better. From…

  • Parallel Eclipses and How They Influence your Life (Part II)

    Parallel Eclipses and How They Influence your Life (Part II)

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    Lorna Tedder
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    We looked at meditation ideas for the upcoming eclipse and in part I of this series, we looked at how this eclipse parallels previous eclipses in 1951, 1970, and 1989. This post looks at how I personally connect the 1989 eclipse to the upcoming eclipse, with a glimpse into astrological impacts. I was terrified, sad,…