How Sunny Got Her Name
Photo of Sunny, six weeks old—Our first moment together and our first kiss Everyone called her Sunny but her real name was Sunshine Hope. I was the only one who [...]
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Aug, 2023
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Mar, 2023
A Little Life Review
For most of my life, if you asked, I would tell you I had a wonderful childhood. And I did. But that’s not the entire story. Although I knew [...]
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Aug, 2022
Seventeen
August 17th, 17 years ago. I’d been home only a few minutes after an afternoon spent at my mother’s bedside when a feeling flooded me and I knew I had [...]
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Nov, 2021
A Grieving Daughter’s Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of Her Dad’s Death
“The day your father died was the worst day of my life.” “It wasn’t so good for me either,” I replied, a tinge of sarcasm coating my flat tone. [...]
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Aug, 2021
Grief Has No Shelf Life
August 17th, again. The anniversary of the day my mother took her last inhale and never again exhaled. After hours with her, I’d stepped out of the room only [...]
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Apr, 2021
The Day I Died
I didn't know I would die that morning. Why would I? I'd only been 48 years old for eight days, still relatively young in 1961. Just a few [...]
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May, 2020
Amidst a Pandemic by Kathryn Mattingly – Guest Post
I am delighted that award winning author Kathryn Mattingly has generously allowed me to share with you her personal, yet universal, post about the challenges she has been facing while [...]
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Jan, 2020
Broken Toes
Every year, like clockwork, my mother would walk into my childhood rocking chair late at night and break her toe. The first broken toe accident happened some time after [...]
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Jun, 2019
PREMIER — You’re Invited June 24 at 5:30 PDT
Join me, Dr. Mary Plouffe, Iris Waichler, MSW, LCSW, and Laurie Kahn, MA, MFA, LCPC, as we discuss Growing Through Grief. You won’t want to miss this important and healing [...]
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Apr, 2019
Are Blog Themes Necessary?
Are Blog Themes Necessary? I’ve heard that a blog should have a theme and every post should relate to that theme. But I don’t live by one theme. Or [...]