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The Great Plan, part 3
How It All Ends It’s January first, the dawning of a new year. As has become our tradition we celebrated New Year’s Eve with a quiet...

Emmy Pickering
Mar 13, 20248 min read
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The Great Plan pt 2
Not As It Seems It’s December 2023 and Christmas is just around the corner. Such a mild winter, our kids were bemoaning the lack of snow...

Emmy Pickering
Mar 9, 20246 min read
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The Great Plan pt 1
A Good Start I haven’t known where to start with this. I think I just kept waiting for the resolution, the grand finale. I’ve been...

Emmy Pickering
Mar 7, 20245 min read
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My Lucky Sign
During one of many exhausting lockdowns I read a book that was gifted to me by the mom of my late and dear friend. The book ‘E²’ by Pam...

Emmy Pickering
Sep 8, 20232 min read
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Making Home pt 3
At the end of the day, home is a feeling not a place I begrudge what I just wrote above. I’ve been without a solid home of my own for...

Emmy Pickering
Aug 25, 20234 min read
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Making Home pt 2
I felt the women were being called home, what does it mean? Why have I shied away at posting this for so long when the truth raged in me...

Emmy Pickering
Aug 14, 20235 min read
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Making Home
Part 1, 2022: I walked slowly from our friends’ main house to the pool house, where my family was already tucked in. The bigger girls...

Emmy Pickering
Aug 8, 20236 min read
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Sink or Swim
Where am I? That seems to always be the first thing I want to start with — I’m on my friend Jeni’s couch in her gorgeous, ultra-feminine,...

Emmy Pickering
Jul 23, 20237 min read
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Slow & Curious
It's been one week since we left our Barriefield house. Even though I had been anticipating for quite some time how it would feel to make...

Emmy Pickering
Jul 8, 20235 min read
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Life and Death in Everything
I sit in the faded red rocking chair, feeling the sun hot upon my skin, the slightest breeze just easing the heat. I'm grieving the...

Emmy Pickering
May 22, 20233 min read
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It Won't Pass Us By
I want to start over. I want to walk out my back door in the morning barefoot, the dew dampening the hem of my robe, mulch caught in my...

Emmy Pickering
May 10, 20236 min read
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Reality Maker
I won't be telling you anything you don't already know here, though perhaps it will be a reminder of things you forgot. I hope my writing...

Emmy Pickering
Mar 3, 20234 min read
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