Why Writing is Liberating
Written by Guest Blogger: Amanda Chance Reading can help us travel across different worlds and learn many lessons. Even in our ‘Books in...
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Michelle Walsh
- Sep 21
- 1 min
Because...Love
I got called back after a routine mammogram because you know, reasons. One ultrasound, one detailed torture device session, and 72 hours...
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Michelle Walsh
- Sep 4
- 1 min
Receive
I just listened to a meditation on receiving. Turns out I don’t do this so well. The Zen intonation of the teacher asked what it would be...
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Michelle Walsh
- Aug 29
- 2 min
When I look at you...
When I look at you I see a masterpiece of how God knit you together molecule by molecule, cell by cell, placing each strand of hair on...
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Michelle Walsh
- Aug 22
- 2 min
Books in a Basket
It rests hidden next to my prayer chair, in the same exact location it has been for over twenty years. A silent, stoic monument, seeking...
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Michelle Walsh
- Aug 14
- 2 min
She Let Go
She let go. She let go of cleaning the floor on her hands and knees, of oiling the kitchen cabinets, of vacuuming triangles into the...
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Michelle Walsh
- Aug 8
- 2 min
Life Vest
My kid swam across a lake yesterday. I thought she may drown. I watched helpless from a stand up paddleboard too far away to rescue her...
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Michelle Walsh
- Jul 27
- 1 min
24
No one tells you. Mouths are closed and Hope is driving the party bus on The Big Day. No one tells you that there is a rather steep...
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Michelle Walsh
- Jul 21
- 1 min
Recalculating
Sometimes we literally get stopped in our tracks. Like yesterday, when this beauty was sprawled out in front of me. What I am not: a...
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Michelle Walsh
- Jul 16
- 1 min
Bittersweet
Apparently, while raising children, they may pick the most unexpected of times to bravely share the ways that you have recently let them...
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Michelle Walsh
- Jul 8
- 2 min
Labels
Which category do I fit into as a mom if I have one daughter dating a woman, another who has a partner who using pronouns They/Them, and...
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Michelle Walsh
- Jul 3
- 2 min
I Stopped Cooking Dinner
One day I stopped cooking dinner. Twenty years of preparing this meal every night left me feeling like I needed a break. So I took it....
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Michelle Walsh
- Jun 24
- 3 min
Opportunity of a Lifetime
I did it. I completed a 4 day Writing Workshop in a place I have never been to by myself, without knowing a single soul. I did it. ...
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Michelle Walsh
- Jun 18
- 2 min
Clam Shells
I write so I won’t forget the simplest, most minute details of this living sandwich unfold. Take the sun rising and setting, for example....
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Michelle Walsh
- Jun 4
- 2 min
Be Like Willie...
I don’t understand how this happened again. I was barely 26 years old, fresh and green, only teaching 3 years - and then Columbine...
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Michelle Walsh
- Jun 2
- 2 min
Tornado
I have forgotten to pray. This reminder came from a respected teacher in a random zoom room that I happened to be in at the last minute...
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Michelle Walsh
- May 27
- 2 min
Sifting
In the course of one week, I feel as though I have lived multiple lifetimes. While merging onto HWY 17, the dashboard on my Prius lit up...
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Michelle Walsh
- May 25
- 1 min
Holding
How do we hold both things simultaneously, sorrow and joy? Like a scale in the produce department of Nob Hill measuring fruit to prepare...
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Michelle Walsh
- May 11
- 3 min
Marshmallows
I have shared many stories before, but never this one. Mainly because it has been tucked away, neatly filed in a category called: ...
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Michelle Walsh
- May 5
- 2 min
Two Way Speaker
Hey Mama, Can you believe the ladybugs are graduating college? Do you remember the day we came home from the hospital with two bundles of...
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