Tag Archives: Blogging

The more things change . . .

Posted on December 26, 2018 by

Two years ago, as my mother was dying from Alzheimer’s, I wondered how my life would be different once she was gone. I felt as if I was suspended between my life before the deaths of my nuclear family, and … Continue reading →

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Why I Blog

Posted on November 24, 2013 by

I’ve written stories and poems since I could string a series of words together with a pencil in my Big Chief Writing Tablet. My first short story was about a girl, Miranda, and her horse. (Like many young girls, I really wanted, but … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 10, 2013 by

Originally posted on Soul Healing Art:
If there is anything that gets my passion up as a woman it is hearing other women de-value their own words, and in doing so, denying their own life and experiences. It disturbs me…

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What’s In A Name?

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

A journal by any other word would be as true. Or would it? What if you called it a blog? Blogging is odd. When I first started, I had no idea what it was about. I wrote and wrote and … Continue reading →

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I’d like to thank the Academy.

Posted on January 20, 2013 by

Today is epic in the life of my blog. Gail at 300 Word Limit nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Award. I highly recommend you check Gail out. Thank you, Gail! To be honest, I sometimes wonder if the sturm … Continue reading →

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Roots

Posted on December 31, 2012 by

Now that the shitty events of 2012 are nearly behind me and I’ve written the obligatory farewell-cruel-year post, I’d like to get back to the topic that propelled me to start this blog: men. I started and stopped several blogs … Continue reading →

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Gloaming of 2012

Posted on December 31, 2012 by

2012 was a year of life at its rawest. Pain and grief were abundant. But I also received the gifts of grace, hope, and joy. My oldest brother died in April at age 56 of health issues related to alcoholism. My … Continue reading →

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Anticlimax

Posted on June 2, 2012 by

After a fabulous vacation in Tuscany, I am back to the mundanities of life. I’ve spent the past week and a half digging out at work (and getting behind on my blogging). I traveled to Chicago for meetings this week, and … Continue reading →

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Ontario Summers

Posted on May 5, 2012 by

What I remember most about my childhood is moving vans and boxes. But no matter where we lived—Chicago, Saginaw, Denver, Long Island, Houston, Charlotte—we always spent our summers in the same place: Lake Superior, Ontario. Here are some photos from … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

Tomorrow is my brother’s memorial. I’ll leave at 6:45 a.m. to make it in time for the 10:00 a.m. service. By 11:00 a.m. it will be over. Hopefully my brother-in-law won’t show. If he does, I shall ignore him. If … Continue reading →

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