Blessed

Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the seventeenth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday and my first here at Bereaved and Blessed! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with […]

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Last week I didn’t know what that meant. Today I do, along with many others in our Beverly neighborhood who are honoring the life and memory of Marine Corporal Conner Lowry. Semper Fi, short for Semper Fidelis, is latin for Always Faithful. The Marine Corps uses it as their motto and their inspiration as they serve and […]

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Welcome to Bereaved and Blessed! If you are here for the first time you can read about me and my blog here. You can also check out the other tabs above the header (which I designed all by myself) to find out more about me, my new blog and other places I write. There are also pages […]

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It’s the fourth Monday of the month which means its time to share our Perfect Moments from February with Lori from Write Mind Open Heart. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Saturday evening we celebrated my birthday early with my side of the family by going out to dinner at one of my favorite restaurants. We went at 4:30 p.m. because […]

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How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the second edition of my new “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. In 2011 I lost two loved ones to suicide. I realize that there is likely nothing I could have […]

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Earlier this month I ordered this picture (framed and matted) for the office in our new home, which Bob recently repainted a very nice color that found out about here. I took the photo in August 2008 when Bob and I were in Lake Tahoe for the marriage of two of our friends, one of […]

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