Bereavement

who still remember. It means so much to me and other bereaved parents to know that, especially as more and more time passes since the deaths of our children. Last night Bob and I were watching the Chicago evening news when we happened to see an amusing story about a couple that got a flat […]

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Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly’s ABC News Special Interview with Diane Sawyer aired on Monday night. I haven’t seen the whole thing, but have caught clips of their moving interchange about Gabby’s “journey towards recovery” in various headline news stories. As so often is the case with national news stories, such as this […]

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 Photo Credit: Michael Brosilow Last week Bob and I got to see another wonderful play at the Steppenwolf Theater here in Chicago. Our last visit there was to see a memorable piece called Sex with Strangers which I wrote about here.  That play dealt with the power of words (both in print and on the Internet), as well as […]

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Dear family and friends, I am not a doctor or nurse. I have no medical credentials, unless you loosely consider my knowledge of anatomy that I gained through studying to become a certified group fitness instructor. I have spent many years consulting with Dr. Google and other online “experts” about all things related to pregnancy, […]

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I recently wrote about my “All-Time Favorite Post” as part of my new blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesdays. It was interesting and therapeutic to revisit my favorite post and see how far my family and I have come since I wrote it in March 2009. Angie, from Still Life with Circles, had another awesome idea for a blog round up recently. […]

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Novembering

by Kathy on November 2, 2011 · 5 comments

in Bereavement, Faith, Grief, Healing, Loss, Love, Memories, NaBloPoMo

Today is the second of two important days in my church community and the worldwide Catholic church. Yesterday was All Saints Day (always celebrated on November 1) and today is All Souls Day (always observed on November 2). I don’t make it to mass every year on these two Holy Days, but I usually at least try to take […]

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