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Greeting Card Holiday

Valentine’s Day, 2004: I was seventeen and my boyfriend was eighteen. We’d been dating seven months and for the commercialized greeting...

Aimee Williams

Feb 14, 20183 min read

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In 2010 I attended a hybrid online RN program. I was also working 40 hours a week as an LPN and was the breadwinner in our home. I was a...

Aimee Williams

Feb 10, 20184 min read

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Earlier today I was giving the car seat latch a piece of my mind; having a mini-meltdown because it would not install properly in the...

Aimee Williams

Jan 16, 20185 min read

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(Written December 2015) To you, dear widow: On the days when you hold your head high and manage a smile, I'm proud of you. ...

Aimee Williams

Dec 23, 20173 min read

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(Written December 19, 2015) It seems as though you die again every night after I put the kids to bed. I do not feel the shock I felt...

Aimee Williams

Dec 20, 20173 min read

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We spent eleven years together, eleven years of love, eleven years with their ups and downs, eleven years figuring out life side by side....

Aimee Williams

Dec 19, 20174 min read

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Five years ago I was in my third trimester with my first child, an expectant mother in the Christmas season. It was a beautiful time of...

Aimee Williams

Dec 5, 20174 min read

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A few days ago I was acutely missing Chris so I thought I’d go out to Cedar Lake and sit for a few minutes. In my mind I had it planned...

Aimee Williams

Nov 14, 20174 min read

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