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Mom guilt, Robin Hood, and reading magazines like a grandma
Part III of a discussion with Aimee Guest on Creativity and Motherhood
Apr 11
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Tresta Payne
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March 2025
Making plans, praying prayers, and throwing your life up in the air
Or, "I am out with lanterns looking for myself," as Dickinson humorously noted
Mar 14
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Tresta Payne
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Making plans, praying prayers, and throwing your life up in the air
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Creativity and Motherhood
A discussion on time, justification, and rejecting "the images the world would put on us", with Aimee Guest
Mar 9
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Tresta Payne
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February 2025
Stopping by the window
And a change in perspective that comes at the mirror of true words
Feb 1
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Tresta Payne
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January 2025
Killing the birds
Rocks and rucks and rest
Jan 19
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Tresta Payne
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December 2024
Sunday Morning, Midlife Edition
One Sunday we were middle aged and tired and boring, and it was the best of times.
Dec 29, 2024
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Tresta Payne
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A quiet and simple life must also have some challenges
It’s the end of another year and we’re all about to put our dreams and aspirations on some sort of scale, balancing what is reasonable against what we…
Dec 22, 2024
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Tresta Payne
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November 2024
Afterthoughts on communication, attention, and going slow
"The use of parentheses indicates that the writer considered the information less important—almost an afterthought."
Nov 24, 2024
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Tresta Payne
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The world is my memory palace
“…now that I believe Christ has gone to prepare a place for me, I am free to receive the signposts as aids intentionally sent.” Amy Lee, This Homeward…
Nov 15, 2024
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Tresta Payne
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October 2024
Dumb things we say to kids
Toddlers, teenagers, and midlife
Oct 30, 2024
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Tresta Payne
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September 2024
Slowly into the dirt
A recycled essay about death as recycling
Sep 22, 2024
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Tresta Payne
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Everything, All the Time
And other things I just can't do
Sep 7, 2024
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Tresta Payne
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