by Kathy on September 22, 2020 · 4 comments
in ALI Community, Anticipation, Bereavement, Blessed, Blogging, Cancer, Communication, Coping, Friends, Grief, Hospice, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Molly, Relationships, Sadness, Signs, Song Lyrics, The Past, Time, Writing
I’ll never understand why grief hits us the way it does, at any given moment, and I cannot seem to stop crying since I heard the news. We never got to meet in person and I am still so damn heartbroken. Cancer really sucks. I didn’t think you were going to die and as far […]
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by Kathy on August 31, 2020 · 0 comments
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I don’t have to tell you how insane 2020 has been and that the hits seem to keep on coming. We are all doing our best to cope with the pandemic and everything else in ways that work for us. Some people, like me, tend to be fairly open about what we are going through, […]
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by Kathy on June 24, 2020 · 1 comment
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We’re over 3 months in to navigating life in the time of this global pandemic… Over the weekend I found myself asking, “Now what?” This week my family and I recommitted to making the best of our situation/this unique (to say the least) summer. It isn’t going to be easy, as a friend reminded me […]
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13 years ago today, on April 10, 2007, I began blogging. On past blogoversaries I have shared things that I have learned from blogging and eight years ago, since my blogoversary fell on the second Tuesday of April, I chose “Blogoversaries” to be the Time Warp topic for that month. Seven Years ago, I decided to keep it simple and choose one […]
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by Kathy on February 29, 2020 · 1 comment
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Today is my twelfth Leap Day! On my eleventh, I shared this post, which was adapted from an earlier version that I wrote for The3Six5 writing project,on February 29, 2012 (my tenth Leap Day). I am including parts of those two posts again today, as they are fun to revisit. It’s fascinating to reflect on […]
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by Kathy on December 31, 2019 · 2 comments
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8 years ago I participated in a year-end blog meme for the first time called Rewind 2011, with fun and interesting questions designed to get writers and readers to reflect on our lives in 2011. I did so again the following year, with my Rewind 2012. Ever since I did this writing exercise those two […]
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