Category Archives: Cancer

{ the human experience }

  One. Jess is my hair person. I adore her for her talent, but mostly for the conversations we inevitably have. She’s young and smart and a dreamer. She doesn’t own a computer or a cell phone. She says she likes coming home to messages on her machine. She likes the sound of human voice....

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{ Chelsa and the Matilda Jane Movement }

For the past hour I have sat at my computer, looking through archives for the day we released balloons. I cannot find..and my search engine irritates me today. I will never forget that cold, cloudy day when Mike showed up with a gigantic box. GIGANTIC box that was light as a feather. With instructions given...

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Protected: { eyes wide open }

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{ dale parks }

  I have really young parents. Really young. They were quite the couple in High School. She was in student counsel and quite the popular cheerleader. He was the bad boy on a motorcycle who had a love of leather jackets. Like a moth to a flame she was. And from that whirlwind, crazy young...

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{ for the sake of what was }

(Do you remember when the amazing women at Matilda Jane coordinated with Jami and Mike to create this experience for the kids? They still talk about it.) Wayne’s passing on Feb. 5th has come and gone. Not sure how to commemorate it because his bench isn’t set yet, nor have we spread his ashes. Thinking...

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