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Love Yourself

If you read my last blog, then you read about my beautiful Valentine's Day proposal. I really hate spoiling the story for anyone who hasn't read my book, Life After Birth: A Memoir of Survival and Success as a Teenage Mother, but these two…
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My S.O. What! Valentine’s Day Proposal

Ignoring me, he got on one knee and grabbed my left my hand fully removing the big chocolate candy I was about to complain about him taking. It was actually a black ring box. My mouth dropped, and my heart started to beat out of my chest.
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Time to Learn to Sew…Make a Stitch. Save Nine.

...ignoring it, pretending it didn't exist, thinking it wasn't as bad as I already knew it was, thinking it would fix itself, or just moving on to the next thing.
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There’s a Stranger in My House

This Wednesday topped my adventures with squirrels at my house. But let me tell you why I wasn't totally freaked out when I saw a squirrel's tail hanging from my dryer vent. One winter morning two years ago just after Christmas, I came out…
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Yesterday I Would Have Been Married 7 Whole Years

I didn't even think about it until I logged onto Facebook and saw my friend's anniversary pictures and remembered that she had gotten married the day after I did (the year before). What? I didn't think about it. Nope, it didn't cross my mind…
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It’s Not My Place to Judge. Only to Help.

A couple of days ago, I did something I've done maybe 100 times now.  I spoke at another school to another group of students, and it was just as fulfilling and exciting as my very first time. Wonderful Girls About 500 students, all girls,…
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She’s Here!

Kailey Mackenzie Owens is here!  If you missed the announcement that she was on the way, be sure to read my last blog post! She's a doll!         ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ I'm…
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Is This a Joke? Nope. It’s Just Life. So NOW What?

Personal story In 2010, I published my very personal story about how I got into a situation with a boy. He forced himself on me, a virgin. Nine months later I was a very single, very young, very ignorant mother. I share all the details…
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My 92 Year Old Grandma Shows the World that It’s Never Too Late

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMd5V8FUM8g 30,000 likes and counting. That's what the video of my grandmother getting her honorary high school diploma/certificate of attendance has gotten. For years, my grandmother known as GG by her…