Tag Archives: mom

Expressing My True Self

Posted on April 13, 2021 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir Until you start school, your life revolves around your parents. They can do nothing wrong. Only later, in your teen years, do you realize they can do nothing right, and that your sagely friends and, of course, … Continue reading →

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Conversations with my brain…at 3 AM

Posted on December 11, 2019 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week might just be the next Erma Bombeck–if she can find the time! Tie My Tubes Already‘s creator, Tia, is a bookaholic mother of two who “secretly dreams of one day self-publishing a small collection of … Continue reading →

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Posted on May 12, 2019 by mitchteemley

I had a wonderful mom, and am truly grateful for her. But I also want to celebrate the beautiful girl who first loved me, then without losing a drop, magically filled up with love for our first child (every time … Continue reading →

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I Always Knew You Loved Me, Mom

Posted on May 13, 2018 by mitchteemley

(See video below) Mom was twenty when I was born—twenty times as old as me. But when I turned ten, I suddenly realized she was now only three times as old as me. And when I reached twenty she would … Continue reading →

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The Wishing Map 62

Posted on April 26, 2017 by mitchteemley

Is there someone who regularly disables your ego defense system, who knows the “unimproved” version of you and likes you anyway? Hold onto them!

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Running Away

Posted on February 13, 2017 by mitchteemley

I’d threatened many times to join the circus or go live on a raft on the Mississippi like Tom and Huck. But that wasn’t the case this time. It was some since-forgotten atrocity—homework? weekend chores? (I still hate vacuuming)—that led … Continue reading →

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The Wishing Map 6

Posted on October 22, 2014 by mitchteemley

Note: To read The Wishing Map from the beginning, click here. The Wishing Map Chapter Two: Aunt Aloysia Previously: Once the “startlingly large, alarmingly red-headed woman” arrived in Middleton, everything began to change. ⇔ ⇔ ⇔ “We really do have a … Continue reading →

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