Category Archives: life

Searching for the Spark

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Arizela

My sister Kate wasn’t really my sister. She was biologically my aunt. She was also my part-time parental figure and called me her sister because my grandparents (her parents) had more to do with my upbringing than my mother did. … Continue reading →

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Compromise, but Never Surrender

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Arizela

So life has been throwing all kinds of torpid feces at my fans this last week. Mostly in the form of a resurgence of fatigue from my heart, still having a baby and her parents in the house, and dealing … Continue reading →

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Baby Blues

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Arizela

I have house guests. Lots of them. Actually, there are three households currently residing in my single-family home. Hubby, son, 3 puppies, cat, and me Sister and her German Shepherd Niece, niece’s boyfriend, and daughter That’s a lot of bodies. … Continue reading →

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Reflecting Theme

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Arizela

I recently had the privilege of helping my niece through a very difficult birth. There were a number of fairly major (life threatening) complications and my training as a doula (professional childbirth assistant) and a nurse came in handy pretty … Continue reading →

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The Good Life

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Arizela

I followed a link from Twitter (thanks, @JustineMusk) tonight to a blog post called How to Cure Deep Procrastination. It poses what seems like a very simple solution to curing real, problem-inducing procrastination, like the kind that gets people bad … Continue reading →

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