Category: Family
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Identity update
May 22nd, 2012 After the purge of words on my previous identity art, I posted a question on Facebook for my friends to contribute positive verbiage in order for me to reconstruct a view of myself that was healthy. I took these words and quotes and painted over the sad, painful imprints of my past.
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It’s a blue, blue, blue, blue world
January 26th, 2011 Don’t let Mamma pick out paint until after the cataract surgery! Years ago, during the period in my life that became known as “my tragic exile” I briefly returned to my hometown to live. My Mother’s response to any crisis in my life was always to tell me “Just come home and…
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A red exclamation point!
July 28th, 2010 ©2010 Michelle French There it was. A big red exclamation point. An email from my sister on a Sunday morning. I had gotten up, checked email, made coffee and then went back to the comfort of my bed to watch BBC News. I had hoped it would lull me back to sleep.…
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Three times in a lifetime
May 1st, 2009 I grew up in a small town in Alabama in big house with white columns with three sisters. It had the usual, spacious, formal rooms, and a big den with a wall of books, the best TV available with all the cable channels available then, and a big fireplace that added to…