The Memory Jar
About 5 years ago, I read about the idea of creating a memory jar for each year. The way it works is to keep a jar starting on January...
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marckaye91
Jul 18, 20172 min
This is love, yo (a Poem for my kids – but not yet)
I recently posted this to twitter and reposting it in an easier-to-read format. I wrote this about being a dad to two teenagers. Maybe...
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marckaye91
Sep 24, 20163 min
I’m back (and squishier than before)
Teen car- sleeping was not as blissful as this but this rendition will have to do. I haven’t written in a while. I think about it every...
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marckaye91
Feb 13, 20163 min
A Most Significant February
I don’t even know where to start. This is the shortest month of the year and it’s not even over and it has been one for the books. This...
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marckaye91
Feb 11, 20163 min
Lessons from a Soup Kitchen
It’s like chicken soup (kitchen) for the soul. This week, I took my son and a friend to an area soup kitchen to do some volunteer work...
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marckaye91
Jan 25, 20162 min
You’re Doing Great
Sorry in advance for smudging your screen. I had someone who knows about all the things that are going on with me right now say, “keep...
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marckaye91
Jan 11, 20162 min
The Last Time
I’m looking to also downsize to a small parcel of land with just a couch. My daughter and I were catching up on the two shows we watch...
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marckaye91
Jan 9, 20164 min
Open Heart (Surgery)
My mother had open heart surgery this past week. Nothing snaps you out of the self pity associated with job uncertainty, divorce,...
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marckaye91
Dec 8, 20153 min
The Kids Who See Me Through
Love. Whatever type of leader or person is associated with the quality of decisiveness – well, I was not that person today. After several...
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marckaye91
Dec 6, 20153 min
PENS (Premature Empty Nest Syndrome)
My kids are upstairs in the spare room working on their homework. I just went up to check on them because it is eerily quiet from the...
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marckaye91
Nov 3, 20152 min
The Virtue of Cat Pee
If only… I want to move on. So. Damn. Badly. Sometimes, I wish there was a big hand from the sky that would reach down, grab me by my...
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marckaye91
Nov 2, 20152 min
On Wedding Anniversaries
Happy Anniversary to me! Today is my wedding Anniversary. It would have been my 18th. I guess it still is, legally anyway. I look forward...
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marckaye91
Nov 1, 20154 min
Daylight Savings, Raking Leaves & Beginning with the End
It’s a fine line between death and birth I’m not a huge fan of the period between Thanksgiving and the onset of Spring. I can tolerate...
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marckaye91
Oct 30, 20153 min
Bullying, Looking in the Mirror & Changing Leaves
Another lesson from one of my kids.. I had a conference with my daughter’s Gifted Teacher today to review her progress in the program and...
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marckaye91
Oct 27, 20153 min
Don’t Come In
When else am I going to be able to use an image like this? It’s a mother, not a father, but we do have the same hair. I feel like the...
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marckaye91
Oct 17, 20153 min
Streams of Light
Today was my daughter’s Bat Mitzvah. We had a great time – a fantastic time and I’m so glad that we celebrated in style. But a Bat...
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marckaye91
Sep 21, 20153 min
Forgiveness
Tomorrow night starts Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, when we ask for forgiveness. It’s a particularly reflective day in that we...
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marckaye91
Sep 9, 20153 min
Just Landed
…just landed… I don’t know exactly why, but nothing hits me more that I am no longer a married person than when I’m traveling and the...
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marckaye91
Sep 2, 20153 min
Letting Go
Maybe if I tattoo my kids’ faces on my arm…. This morning I sent my son off to Freshman year in high school – at 6:42 in the morning to...
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marckaye91
Sep 1, 20154 min
Staging a Life
Whatever you do – don’t live…it might mess things up. Today, I had the realtors in my house this morning to take photographs to get ready...
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