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Strata of Freedom

Freedom that you have lost, makes you realize you never had it.  You end up learning that what you called “freedom” is a name that you gave to the times when what you dearly wanted, aligned with what...

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Concert Report: They Might Be Giants

When I was in the 11th Grade or so (circa 1988) I drank…a lot.   I won’t lie to you, it was a blast.  Until I couldn’t stop…but that is another story that ended well, but to recounted later perhaps....

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Singled Out

Time travel.  That is what being a single parent with shared custody is like on the weeks in between.  You get to see, literally, what it will be like to not have kids living with you any longer, as...

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Single Parenting,Single Living and Parkour

This week was filled with so many firsts for my kids.  Which means firsts for me, watching them do things for the first time…landmark types of things.  Things that equate in importance with their first...

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Jacket on Her Waist

The jacket around her waist was pure time travel.  I saw the Christmas before we had kids, when we were so poor that I wasn’t lying to her when I said there would be no presents under the tree.  Just...

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How we do it

The scene. 10 PM.  Daughter wrapped in my lungee as a sarong that was bought in India, sits with headlamp and a book on the backporch.  ..balancing out the 3 hours of Xena: Warrior Princess she watched...

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Loneliness Explained

They looked into the world that only one was about to enter. “I have heard, that when we go there, we forget what is here.” “This is true.  Without the forgetting, your conscious connection to...

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Icy Day: Essay, Photos, Fun

I don’t have much time to write this before the natives get restless and someone needs…. (5 minutes later)…as I was saying, I am completely outnumbered. Here is how it started… I was working away on my...

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Take Heart

May 31st.  2013.  I have been here now for 41 and 1/2 years.  I have two children.  One of them is sleeping next to me, bundled up in her sleeping bag.  The black and yellow surface reflecting the...

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5 Years Later

Sunset before my SUP outing June 3rd, 2013 As I lay down upon the board I am on my back, floating.  Drifting in a small cove on a lake so recently kissed by an early summer cloudburst.   I am centered...

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Trapeze, Missing Rocks, Missing Strings

I could feel the third one, but neither of us could see it.  At that moment I found myself wondering…how does it work again? I don’t want an answer.  Sometimes I have prayed for it to not work at all....

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The Big Suck

I find I am never really free of something until I can put it down in writing…almost as if, when the words land on the paper or screen, that there are less of them taking up space inside of me.  But it...

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Burning Bridges: Cheating, lies and trust

It is like watching snow falling, popping right out of summery cumulus clouds when it is 90 degrees on a July evening.  Because that would be impossible to believe. It is when you want to say “but...

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Personal Freedom

As a parent what is it that I do?  I ask myself this in regard to “what can I still do as a parent…since most of my true parenting rights have been stripped?”  Many single parents know what this is...

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Sunny Side/Dark Side.

I was laying on the lower section of his bed…all curled up like a dog.  My head was resting on a swath of blue sleeping bag hammocked between his knees.  I’ve had that bag for 20 years.  It is all he...

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2 Week Wrap Up

How does one not quite thrive but still survive?  Well we here at the Morris house are rather experts at this art form. As long as we are dwelling here in tightly clustered homes in a city and cannot...

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Not Quite a Bounce Back

The last time I really believed that my single life could be at an end, was September of 2012.   But I could not brook being in a relationship with someone who would not progress from separated to...

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Full Moon with Kids

It is 3:17 AM.  It’s been a long week and the kids have been staying up late.  To be honest we have been having a bit of a Netflix and Hulu Plus marathon of shows to catch up on.  The Arrow, Agents of...

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The Love Test

Even before I saw her walking down the street today, smiling broadly with a lightness to her step…I saw her today, in  my mind, over and over again.  It is not something that can be explained to you if...

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Stuff

Tonight writing will have to be my yoga. If I stretch sensation and memory in this direction I can still hear my son’s guitar filling the room with feelings…his voice filling the space with a softness...

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