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Identity Crisis–Part 1
As I sit here at the computer, I figure my first entry should be one that tells you about me, but I find that approach to introduction pretty boring… I am blah, blah, blah and my marital status is blah, blah, blah and honestly telling you my stats won’t really tell you who I am and why I decided to blog. So I am starting this blog with a dilemma–who am I anyway? I walk into a store, let’s say Target (our fave), on a Wednesday at about 10 a.m (o.k. more like 11 a.m.) with 5 kids under the age of 12 with me and you see stay-at-home-mom (SAHM…love the acronyms). Many of you check your watch and think Hmmm…school must be out today or they had a doctor’s appointment nearby. The hip versions of you may guess homeschooling. Some of you see woman with a whole lot of kids. We found out that 3 kids is acceptable for most people. After that, you get the outrageous comments like “Are you Catholic?” or “Don’t you know how this happens by now?” A great deal of you unwilling to admit it are seeing young African American woman/5 kids/different fathers, probably single. Now depending on how my children are acting and to the extent they may slip up and forget who their mother is, you may see crazy Black woman with a whole bunch of kids. Now that’s scary for many. Yeah, I said it. You can close your mouth now. I live it every day. You’d never know that I’ve mingled with dignitaries from both sides of the political spectrum or that I have more degrees than either of my parents combined or that even though my body is in Target, my mind has me sitting on the white sands of an East Coast beach wearing a two-piece, sipping on a long-named drink in between my writing the Great American Novel.
So the question is…Who am I? I’m looking for answers. That’s why I’m taking my almost 15 years of writing and my almost 35 years of living to the people–that’s you. You’ll find my honesty unsettling, yet conforting at times. You’ll find irony in my humor, which I use too often to splash orange paint in my sometimes gray life. You’ll learn a lot about marriage, love, loss, parenting, homeschooling, women, writing. Sound like too much? People say that about me all of the time–Just Too Much. Enjoy!
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