It’s hard when you come eye to eye with traits in your personality you wish didn’t exist. Maybe you know they’re there and you work around them…sometimes better able to control them than others. Friends and I have talked about the effort it takes to teach our kids, and especially our ones who are sick, [...]
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It’s hard work being this crazy
I have struggled with whether or not to share this much insight. Because I don’t want you all to really think I’m crazy. But, honestly, have I ever really tried to play up the image of perfect sanity? Nope, I don’t even try to fake it. I can talk about my crazy. I can divulge [...]
Getting De-ported
I’m only going to say this once: I’m totally legal, I’m a citizen! No one’s getting deported. What we’re doing is getting DE-ported. This post is about Peyton. July 14, 2006 saw us here Peyton looking petrified and me trying my best not to. That was the bed that she laid in as they wheeled [...]
Knowing what crazy looks like doesn’t make it any easier to avoid
A cough in the middle of the night. Followed by another. Then a soft moan of discomfort. That’s all it takes. I’m transported to a night over two years ago when I woke up to hear Peyton crying in her sleep. “I hurt, mommy.” Those three words foreshadowed pain and sickness and disease. I didn’t [...]
Am I a deal breaker?
Maybe you’ve tried to make a deal with God. Perhaps your negotiations took place on the bathroom floor, swearing that your lips would never touch a drop of tequila E.V.E.R. again if God would only let you live through the night. I seem to recall I swore I would never even look at Peter again [...]
