Love Is What We Need

This year has taught me lessons in humility and acceptance. During this year’s multiple surgeries and procedures, people have gone out of their way to be kind to me. A person arranged to have my yoga class bring me dinner, sent me notes, dropped by to check on me. What a lovely heart! I love the […]

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Handicapped Parking, Coffee, and Spam

I have been going to my coffee shop for 19 years. The same shop, same people, same coffee for 19 years. Through rain and shine, snow and black ice, writing my doctoral dissertation, mourning the loss of my husband, a breast cancer scare, unfulfilled engagements and the last set of surgeries, it has been the […]

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Words of Thanks

First thing, I wanted to say thank you for all the lovely personal responses to my last blog. It was frighteningly vulnerable to write such a very personal narrative of what happened the night of Rod’s death. Each communication – the comments, the personal emails, the phone calls, and the precious spoken words – means […]

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