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    "Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place."  - Unknown

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    Jaime Pollard-Smith
    • May 13, 2020
    • 3 min

    It Would Not Happen To My Son

    It might not happen to my son, but it happened to her son.

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    Jaime Pollard-Smith
    • Apr 29, 2020
    • 3 min

    Time Traveler

    Traveling backwards lets me control the narrative— my take on the storyline. This very control is what I am practicing releasing on a daily

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    Jaime Pollard-Smith
    • Apr 6, 2020
    • 3 min

    Love Thy Neighbor

    Mother Teresa said if you want to change the world, go home and love your family. Yes, let’s go home to love our family, and let’s stay home

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    Jaime Pollard-Smith
    • Apr 16, 2018
    • 2 min

    Lockdown

    “Don’t worry, Mom, my school has a great lockdown plan. We have practiced.” I wish these conversations didn’t happen but they do. My twel...

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    Jaime Pollard-Smith
    • Nov 20, 2017
    • 3 min

    Blue AND Pink (Not Or)

    Let it be pink. Let it be pink. Let it be pink. I had taken a silly Facebook quiz - “The Left or Right Brain Test.” Intentionally, I have...

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    Jaime Pollard-Smith
    • Oct 16, 2017
    • 3 min

    We All Need Some Home

    She cried out home. I need me some home. Oh, I need some home. -Johnnyswim, “Home” Do you remember when we were kids and home base was ...

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    Jaime Pollard-Smith
    • Apr 10, 2017
    • 4 min

    Change the Weather

    “WE CAN CHANGE THE WEATHER IN OUR FLAT!” My husband does not even flinch when I burst into his office with a grand idea or revelation. I ...

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    Jaime Pollard-Smith
    • Apr 3, 2017
    • 5 min

    My Daughter Sees Me

    There was the time that my daughter used writing to breathe new life into me. On this day, I realized my nine year old had seen me, the real

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    Jaime Pollard-Smith
    • Mar 13, 2017
    • 5 min

    Those Were the Easy Days

    It is easy for me to look at my early devotion as a mother and think I was “better” back then. If my kids slept, ate, and had on clean cloth

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    Jaime Pollard-Smith
    • Feb 6, 2017
    • 5 min

    Be the Adult You Want Your Child to Be

    “Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?” - Dr. Brené Brown I just finished reading Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly: How...

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    Jaime Pollard-Smith
    • Jan 30, 2017
    • 4 min

    My Life is a Piece of Cake

    That could have been me. I just can’t shake the idea that due to incredible luck beyond my control, I was born in the right place at the rig

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    Jaime Pollard-Smith
    • Jan 2, 2017
    • 5 min

    Simplifying in '17

    “The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple.” -Doris Janzen Longacre We just to...

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    Jaime Pollard-Smith
    • Dec 26, 2016
    • 4 min

    What I Learned about Life in a Watercolor Workshop

    This past week we were given a rare opportunity. Faculty members were offered two hours of professional development credit for attending ...

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    Jaime Pollard-Smith
    • Dec 13, 2016
    • 2 min

    No, You Sign MY Sign Up Genius

    "I'd like to be the ideal mother, but I'm too busy raising my kids." - Unknown I am about one sign up genius away from losing my....mind....

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    Jaime Pollard-Smith
    • Nov 22, 2016
    • 4 min

    She Knows and Loves Herself

    “You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts.You may house their bodies but not their souls,For t...

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