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HAWMC – Day Twelve: Free Writing Based on an Image
Image by Vivadança Festival Internacional Ano 5 via Creative Commons License I’ll be a parent forever. Of course, my children will always be my children, but I will have a child at home, living with me, dependent on me, relying on me to keep him safe and housed and clothed and fed until the day I die.…
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HAWMC – Day Ten: My Postsecret
Most people are familiar with Postsecret, the long time art and social experiment where strangers send anonymous secrets on postcards to a guy named Frank. Today’s Health Advocates Writing Monthly Challenge is to create my own Postsecret here – not anonymous, obviously – and explain why. So, here it goes. I absolutely believe that Childhood…
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HAWMC – Day Five: Chrisa Attempts Poetry
I’m not really a poem person. I read them. Some. e.e.cumming and Emily Dickenson. But I don’t write them. So when I read today’s HAWMC prompt – to write a haiku – I procrastinated. I avoided. I generally did everything I could do not to. But, the day will soon draw to a close, so…
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HAWMC – Day Four: Absurd Headlines – Another Idiot
I wish I was making this one up. Again, a “doctor” that says, basically, we’re just lazy parents. Here’s his article (reprinted from the Metro West Daily News) and the comment I left on it.Childhood Bipolar Disorder or Just Childhood? By Dr. Jacob Azerrad On the Today show, a few days after the earthquake in…
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HAWMC -Day Three: Question and Answer
Today’s Health Activist Writer’s Monthly Challenge prompt is to write a question sort of like a Yahoo Question and then answer it. I thought about it for a few hours, and I decided to write about a question I have been asked. Do you really think children can have Schizophrenia? The short answer? Yes. I…
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Health Activist Writer’s Monthly Challenge – Word of the Day
Over on WEGO Health, where I am a member and I re-post some of my blog posts, it’s Health Activist Writer’s Monthly Challenge month. Each day of the month is a different prompt and we are challenged to blog as many days in April as we can, using the prompts. So I’m starting on Day…