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Keeping your heart open while it's breaking
Twice in the past few months, people I love have experienced losses so devastating that my grief has made me gag.
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Talking with Lisa Sibbett about having or not having kids while disabled
A recording from Jessica Slice and Lisa Sibbett's live video
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marriage spreadsheet as adaptive communication
A note: the comments on last week’s post were so thoughtful and mind-opening.
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The actual thing that takes up most of my time
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Chasing the pain around my body
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halcyon, and not only in retrospect
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Unfit Parent is out! Plus all the people I read poems to, unsolicited
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What it's like to give up a smartphone
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This is a way you can be
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The actual thing that takes up most of my time
and how to talk about it
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What it's like to give up a smartphone
so far
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Chasing the pain around my body
on suffering
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Some changes around here
and thank you
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nothing but their brief physical lives
Talking about moles again
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Unfit Parent is out! Plus all the people I read poems to, unsolicited
links to interviews and more
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The Little Soul Roams
Unfit Parent comes out in two weeks.
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Whatever What Is
Whatever What Is
oh these fragile bodies and lives
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