Acceptance—noun1. the act of taking or receiving something offered2. favorable reception; approval; favor3. the act of assenting or believing—Dictionary.comRequested by Hilly.I’m sitting in front of this computer struggling to find the right...
Topics: 500 words, acceptance, essays, writing

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Eleven years ago I couldn’t wait to meet you, although I was afraid for you. I didn’t know how long your life would be, if we would get the chance to know each other. I laid curled up on my side in a hospital bed waiting for them to take me...
Topics: birth, birthday, Lil' M, motherhood, My Life, parenthood

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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:Words without thoughts never to heaven go.—William Shakespeare, HamletIn 500 words I can tell a story. I can take you where I want you to go and bring you back safe and sound. I can lift you up and lighten your.
Topics: 500 words, essays, Just Thinking, writing, writing exercises

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I was cleaning out the small drawer in my desk at home—you know the one, it’s where the pens and pencils and paperclips and staples and extra Post-Its go—and I ran across a brochure from The Art Instruction School. Remember them? Apparently...
Topics: art, art instruction schools, art test, artists, drawing

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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.—François, duc de La RochefoucauldI have never been a fan of school vouchers. My feeling is that taking away money from the public school system does nothing to improve it. I’m not sure that throwing...
Topics: Lil' M, My Life, parenting, private school, public school, religious schools, school, school vouchers

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