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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Mar, 2023
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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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May, 2022
Send In The Clowns
When I see him walk with a limp, my stomach tightens with an ache. His limp means he’s in pain, hurting, and there’s nothing I can do to make [...]
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Feb, 2021
Life On A Limb
Life on a Limb Life is precarious, like living on the slender limb of a tree. Most of the time we don't know this. Once death moves closer, [...]
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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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Oct, 2019
When the Light Is Gone
In the darkness, what I couldn’t see began to clear and take form. Perhaps life is like this—absence tells us what is important. There is a fullness in those empty [...]
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Sep, 2019
We Go On
August 30, 2019 We go on with our days Slower now, more mindful, Yet in a numbness as though nothing really happened. And then I’ll look over at him, [...]
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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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Feb, 2019
Nothing More Important Than Love
"Never to be squandered....the miracle of another human being." —Craig Lucas, Prelude to a Kiss I sit with him in the family room. I sit with him as he [...]
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Oct, 2016
Loneliness Is An Inside Job
My friend, frail and exhausted after months—no years of escalating pain—grief for the loss of her mother; grief for the loss of her physical abilities; grief for the loss of [...]