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Father & Son
So I did a thing last night for the first time. I attended an hour long writing group called The Narrative Method. Worst case scenario, I...

Michelle Walsh
Nov 11, 20223 min read
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Lasagna
*Author, Natalie Goldberg, says when you don't know what to write about, talk about your favorite meal. For me, this was easy! Tom wanted...

Michelle Walsh
Oct 11, 20222 min read
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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...

Michelle Walsh
Sep 29, 20223 min read
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Because...Love
I got called back after a routine mammogram because you know, reasons. One ultrasound, one detailed torture device session, and 72 hours...

Michelle Walsh
Sep 21, 20221 min read
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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...

Michelle Walsh
Sep 4, 20221 min read
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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...

Michelle Walsh
Aug 29, 20222 min read
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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...

Michelle Walsh
Aug 22, 20222 min read
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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...

Michelle Walsh
Aug 14, 20222 min read
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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...

Michelle Walsh
Aug 8, 20222 min read
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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...

Michelle Walsh
Jul 27, 20221 min read
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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...

Michelle Walsh
Jul 21, 20221 min read
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Bittersweet
Apparently, while raising children, they may pick the most unexpected of times to bravely share the ways that you have recently let them...

Michelle Walsh
Jul 16, 20221 min read
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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...

Michelle Walsh
Jul 8, 20222 min read
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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....

Michelle Walsh
Jul 3, 20222 min read
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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. ...

Michelle Walsh
Jun 24, 20223 min read
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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....

Michelle Walsh
Jun 18, 20222 min read
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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...

Michelle Walsh
Jun 4, 20222 min read
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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...

Michelle Walsh
Jun 2, 20222 min read
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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...

Michelle Walsh
May 27, 20222 min read
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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...

Michelle Walsh
May 25, 20221 min read
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