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My Mother’s Diary

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My Mother’s Diary. My Mother’s Diary. My mother, Merry Nell Drummond, fought breast cancer for 29 years, from March 31, 1981 through March 3, 2010. I was 10 when she was diagnosed and 39 when she died. I’ve never been fond of the battle imagery associated with cancer, but Mom loved it. 8220;You have to be a warrior,” she once told me. She was. She was also my muse, the first person to encourage my writing. Although I hated her cancer, it has provided more than a little writing inspiration. 32 Bad Hair Day.

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About Megan

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My Mother’s Diary. Tea and poetry. That’s how I start my writing day. As the day unfolds, there’s more poetry, lots more tea. In between, I do have a life. I promise. I serve as managing editor and contributing writer for the. A monthly magazine in Waco, Texas. For eight years I wrote a column called “Musings.”. In 2016 TS Poetry Press published. The Joy of Poetry. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to print (Opens in new window).

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Hail, Poetry!

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My Mother’s Diary. July 15, 2015. For what, we ask, is life without a touch of poetry in it? Sung sentimentally by the Pirate King, and then everyone joins in. As they should.). Today is the day to sing with pirates and poets. Today is Take Your Poet to Work Day. My poet this year is not a pirate but a miserable failure of a poultry farmer. Robert Frost. Knowing nothing about chickens, I Goggled the breed and found this tidbit at www.raising-happy-chickens.com. I’m not sure how it will go, bringing...

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Going Catholic

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My Mother’s Diary. Self-Care: Stop Striving, Start Trusting. August 1, 2015. This is the final entry in Laura Lynn Brown’s summer blogging project at MakesYouMom.com.). On April 8 our church welcomed a one-woman performance of St. Thérèse: The Story of a Soul. If it comes to your town, go! I knew vaguely who Thérèse of Lisieux was, and I’d read some of her autobiography years ago. I decided to reread it after the show. It has been life-changing. It’s always bothered me, just as it bothered the disciples ...

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Self-Care: Eat good food, preferably sitting down

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My Mother’s Diary. Self-Care: Eat good food, preferably sitting down. June 26, 2015. I am writing along with Laura Lynn Brown’s summer blogging project at MakesYouMom.com. Join us? I owe entirely the fact that I’m cooking again at all, to Kristin Schell. My biggest problem, as someone who started flirting with anorexia at age 6, is that I still have trouble feeding myself. When I feel hunger, my default is to ignore it. (What? You don’t do that? Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to ...

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The Curious Incident of the Mathematician and Accidental Poet

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My Mother’s Diary. The Curious Incident of the Mathematician and Accidental Poet. August 7, 2015. I just finished reading Mark Haddon’s novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” It’s also been made into a play, and it won Best Play at this year’s Tony Awards. Maybe that’s why it can be tricky. Christopher thinks a metaphor should more accurately be called a lie. Because if you say you have a skeleton in your closet and you don’t, then it’s a lie, he explains. Perhaps it’s because y...

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Food & Drink | August 2015 | Wacoan® | Waco’s Magazine™

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Food & Drink. Food & Drink August 2015. By Abby and Kevin Tankersley. We All Scream for Ice Cream. As far as any of us can remember, it made the cranking easier and held the freezer in place. To make ice cream sandwiches, place a large scoop of ice cream between two of the cookies and gently press them together. We paired the peach ice cream with the ginger cookies. The chocolate chip cookies will work well with vanilla, chai tea or coffee ice cream. 2 cups heavy cream. 1 1/2 cups buttermilk. Heat oven t...

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Self-Care: Work to live, don’t live to work

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My Mother’s Diary. Self-Care: Work to live, don’t live to work. June 12, 2015. I am writing along with Laura Lynn Brown’s summer blogging project at MakesYouMom.com. Please read her post here. As a general rule I don’t get writer’s block. My work at a monthly magazine doesn’t allow that. But in May, I could not get together my thoughts to write my column. I have a file called Potentials, and not even my potentials were coming together. But last September when John and I took a week at the beach, I did no...