by Kathy on June 13, 2024 · 0 comments
in Art, Background, Bereavement, Birthdays, Blessed, Cancer, Change, Coping, Decisions, Diversions, Family, Grief, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Milestones, Mom, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, Signs, Time
For my 48th birthday last year, in March 2023, my mom contributed to my getting an Art Institute of Chicago membership, something I’ve done and really enjoyed off and on over the years. I got it as part of a deal that lasted 15 months, so it doesn’t expire until the end of this month. […]
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by Kathy on January 26, 2021 · 2 comments
in Books, Cancer, Coping, Expectations, Family, Friends, Grief, Life, Loss, Love, Music, Parenting, Relationships, Travel, Writing
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is the first book that I finished in 2021 and I loved it so much! I bought it awhile back when it was on sale via Audible, before I knew about and switched to Libro.fm (benefitting our local independent bookstore), because I’d heard good things about both […]
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by Kathy on September 22, 2020 · 4 comments
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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 September 1, 2020 · 0 comments
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The tech who did the targeted ultrasound on my left breast today said as I was leaving that I got the “best possible outcome,” a benign finding, and I concur! As I shared in my post last night, my focus was elsewhere yesterday, when I got an email with the results of my routine/annual mammogram […]
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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 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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