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crafts"/><category term="woot"/><category term="words"/><category term="work out and sweat again"/><category term="working from home"/><category term="working out while sick"/><category term="worry"/><category term="wrongness"/><category term="xtremecustomzparty"/><category term="yahoo"/><category term="yard sales"/><category term="yay Food Network"/><category term="yoga pants"/><category term="you can&#39;t fix stupid"/><category term="yumminess"/><category term="zola martinez"/><category term="zoos. daycations"/><category term="zyrtec"/><title type='text'>TripleZmom</title><subtitle type='html'>Politics, Parenting, Education and lots of rants about perimenopause. </subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.triplezmom.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/497195076086151146/posts/default?max-results=3&amp;redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' 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term="marriage"/><title type='text'>Telling a Story</title><summary type="text">“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” Anne LamottI first read Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird over thirty years ago. It’s one of the best writing books of all time, because it’s also a great life book.&amp;nbsp;The quote above is one of its most powerful pieces of advice.&amp;nbsp;And it’s why I stopped </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.triplezmom.com/feeds/4779668284493874453/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/497195076086151146/4779668284493874453?isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/497195076086151146/posts/default/4779668284493874453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/497195076086151146/posts/default/4779668284493874453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.triplezmom.com/2026/03/telling-story.html' title='Telling a Story'/><author><name>Triplezmom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04394529890501082797</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-497195076086151146.post-1003505487443848015</id><published>2026-03-30T16:23:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2026-03-30T16:23:39.550-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="It&#39;s All About ME"/><title type='text'>Three Small Things</title><summary type="text">&amp;nbsp;When my life got really dark a little while back (as opposed to the entire fucking world being dark like it is now), I struggled to find a way through (out seemed absolutely impossible).&amp;nbsp;Every kind of recommended self-care and whatnot seemed impossible. A lot of them were actually impossible at the time. But I knew I couldn&#39;t continue the way I was.&amp;nbsp;So, I started with three small </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.triplezmom.com/feeds/1003505487443848015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/497195076086151146/1003505487443848015?isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/497195076086151146/posts/default/1003505487443848015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/497195076086151146/posts/default/1003505487443848015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.triplezmom.com/2026/03/three-small-things.html' title='Three Small Things'/><author><name>Triplezmom</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04394529890501082797</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>