Rhonda’s Blog

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Jul 25, 2025

Surely the calendar’s wrong

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on July 18, 2025. It’s the upcoming birthday that’s got me thinking. Actually, it’s not so much the fact that I’m

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Jul 18, 2025

Dear mother of boys, your ceiling should be their floor

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on July 12, 2025. Dear mother, I saw you clearly the other day. You were standing in line behind me at

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Jul 11, 2025

For the stuck, there is hope

This essay was first published on July 5, 2025, on The Daily BS. On a beautiful summer morning, we head for the office. Beneath a vast, spreading sky of blue,

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Jul 04, 2025

The lost boys

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on June 28, 2025. The year was 2020. A virus was sweeping the land. The medical name was COVID-19, but it

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Jun 27, 2025

The life support we need

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on June 21, 2025. ETA:  Baby Mae passed from this earth and went to heaven one day after this essay was

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Jun 19, 2025

Graduating “forward”

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on May 31, 2025. This week, a very precious, very long chapter in the life of our family ended. For 29

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May 30, 2025

Foggy lens? Change your perspective

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on May 24, 2025. I got my first pair of glasses in the third grade. When the teacher noticed me squinting

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May 23, 2025

Fillers of the cup

This essay was first published on The Daily BS on May 17, 2025. “The Chick-fil-A boys.” That’s how I thought of them after meeting them on a hot July day.

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May 22, 2025

Mother load or mother lode?

It was a conversation at an ice cream shop that sparked it. There we were in the long, long line that snaked up and back, the aroma of waffle cones

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May 16, 2025

On Mother’s Day, humor and hope from America’s small, caffeinated mom

This essay first appeared on The Daily BS on May 10, 2025. “With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It’s all there.

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