The fact that I was (am?) a teen mother will come as no surprise to readers who know me in real life or who have been reading my blogs for years. That’s right: long before teen pregnancy and parenting were made trendy by such shows as 16 And Pregnant and The Secret Life of an American Teenager, I was struggling to find my way in a world that could only offer me Spike Nelson. Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Teen Pregnancy For Adults
Posted by gwenstyles
on April 19, 2010
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Finding My Ommmmm
Posted by gwenstyles
on April 10, 2010
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For my next post, I’d planned to talk about regrets. You know, why some of us have more regrets than others, what my particular regrets were, how to learn not to regret things and to just embrace them as lessons learned, things like that. I was struggling to dream up a way of writing about this topic, which I very much want to touch on soon, in a positive way. Because let’s face it, nobody likes a mopey, depressing post on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. Read more »
Fight Against The Music
Posted by gwenstyles
on April 9, 2010
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My husband and I have tried so hard to instill good music taste in our daughter, Gwen Junior. Sometimes, we feel we’ve succeeded – when we catch her humming a Jack Johnson tune under her breath, when she sings “Where, oh where, oh where is my backpack?” to the tune of “I Was Made for Loving You” by Kiss, when we find the missing Motley Crue CD in her bedroom, when she begs and pleads to go to the gig of an obscure Toronto indie band. Read more »
Letters to Inanimate Objects
Posted by gwenstyles
on April 8, 2010
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Do you ever feel like your life would be easier if you could relay messages to the objects in your life that are supposed to make things better? Not people (you can tell them how they’re f*cking up any old time), rather the inanimate objects that you likely don’t even think about. Consider what would happen if you could tell something to behave, and it did. Read more »
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