The Red Dress Club

My Greatest Accomplishment

Mama's Musings

RememberRED is a memoir meme. This week’s assignment was to tell the story, without any trivialization or modesty, of something in your life that you are proud of. I will immodestly state that I believe I have achieved many accomplishments throughout my thirtysomething years that engender pride, but when faced with the question of choosing [...]

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How Getting Laid Off Changed My Life

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My ample midsection cramped up as I stood tapping my foot distractedly outside of a once welcoming room – a room that now held my fate. I tried to ignore the contractions that gently rocked me from the inside out and focus on presenting a confident countenance that would be worthy of hearing the words [...]

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The Thought of You – My Journey to Motherhood

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Welcome to the IF We Believe! Blog Carnival!In honor of National Infertility Awareness Week! This post was written for inclusion in the monthly IF We Believe! Blog Carnival hosted by Arpita of Up, Down & Natural.Scroll to the bottom of this post for a list of other wonderfully brave mama’s who participate in this Carnival, [...]

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Sound Bites from a Miscarriage Journey

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This post is in response to the RemembeRED memoir prompt: Describe a time of forgiveness in your life. “What if something is wrong??” I forgive my intuition for hijacking this short lived pregnancy. The stark chill of SILENCE. I forgive the ultrasound technician for avoiding my gaze and not answering my questions as she passed [...]

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My True Self: An Illustration

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This post is in response to the following The Red Dress Club RemembeRED prompt: Imagine you are meeting someone for the first time. You want to tell them about yourself. Instead of reciting a laundry list of what you do or where you’re from, please give us a scene from your life that best illustrates [...]

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In Loving Memory

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This post is in response to the memoir prompt from The Red Dress Club which asked us to write about a memory, to really mine it and write about what the memory meant to us. It was a cool, grayish day at Jones Beach in October 2009. My family and I were attending The 1st [...]

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In This Moment: A Memoir of 5 Minutes

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This post is linked up with the Red Dress Club’s memoir prompt, which asked: “imagine that after you have died and your daughter/son will be given the gift of seeing a single five-minute period of your life through your eyes, feeling and experiencing those moments as you did when they occurred. What five minutes would [...]

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