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The tears sprung to her eyes as she said hello. She shared how she has been so weepy lately, not sure what is bringing it all on. As she spoke, I could feel the lump in my throat and the tears in my eyes. I was glad to have sunglasses on to hide my watering…

Ugh! I don’t want to feel anymore. I think I may want to go through the rest of my life not feeling any emotions. Become more like some of the people I know who just ignore how they feel, push it down and ignore it. Is that an easier way to live? Perhaps, but then…

Do you love your weirdness? Do you embrace your weirdness? Are you around people who embrace your weirdness as you do them? Are you around people who light you up? First you have to understand your weirdness, then you have to be comfortable in your skin. Once you do all of that, which I believe…

All of a sudden, in an instant, you are nobody’s daughter. You no longer have the 2 people who were always in your corner to rely on when you are down. You no longer have the wisdom that living over 90 years brings. You no longer have the people who you yell at when you…

You know how all of a sudden you hear the beep of the smoke detector and you walk around the house to find the one that is beeping so you can change the battery before you go crazy? This beep was different and took a little time to figure out that it was the 14…

Father’s Day, a day when everyone gets to show the person in their life who has supported them, raised them, influenced them and loved them, just how much they love them. Both my parents always used the same comment when, for some reason, I couldn’t see them their respective Mother’s or Father’s Day, “everyday is…

Fear and Love. There is a philosophy that there are only two emotions and all others come from these two, fear and love. We act out of both, either out of the different fears that may hold us back, or out of the feelings of love and gratitude that may propel us forward. Fear can…

Everyone seems to think they know how to grieve. Very often they think their way is the only way to grieve. Of course we all, intellectually, understand that there is a process you go through to be able to live with and maybe even thrive with that pain of that loss. A process, but not…

Trying to find words this weekend to honor my dad and the over 100,000 people who have died in a 3 month time period due to this pandemic has been difficult. My mind wandered from talking directly about dad, to talking about the complete breakdown of the healthcare system that I dealt with for 7…

Everyone seems to think they know how to grieve. Very often they think their way is the only way to grieve. Of course we all, intellectually, understand that there is a process you go through to be able to live with and maybe even thrive with that pain of that loss. A process, but not…