Flashback to 2003. The children are 6, 4, and 1. I’m trying to homeschool LC in kindergarten, and keep a preschooler and a toddler busy. I am slowly going insane. Writing is just a hobby; a blog (or any other publishing platform), a pipe dream. I won’t write with any consistency for another six years. [...]

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She was sick. At two o’clock Sunday morning Abby ran into my room, whimpering, her hand over her mouth. Sleepy as I was, my first thought was that she’d had a nightmare. That changed when the vomiting began. I half-ran her, half-carried her to the bathroom, and together we leaned over the toilet. Once her [...]

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