by Kathy on October 2, 2026 · 0 comments
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As Ferris Bueller taught us and was part of his famous monologue, from the movie about his day off, which you memorized in elementary school, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” Life has been moving especially fast in recent months and 22 was […]
by Kathy on September 17, 2026 · 0 comments
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It’s your Golden Birthday! A very happy date we got to choose, between that and September 15, 2009, for my scheduled repeat c-section (if I didn’t go into natural labor or my water broke sooner). We picked September 17th in part so you and your sibling Molly, who was born and died 17 months before […]
by Kathy on April 17, 2026 · 0 comments
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Dear Molly, Spring has come again and today it’s been 18 years since you were born and died. It is a big milestone and you are not here. I took a mental health day off work to give myself space to feel how I feel — which includes deep sadness and many other emotions. I […]
by Kathy on October 2, 2025 · 0 comments
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As you move into another year of adulthood I am struck by how different your life is than I imagined it might be when you turned 22. Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see Though […]
by Kathy on January 12, 2025 · 1 comment
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13 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. After that I took six years off, starting up […]
by Kathy on October 2, 2024 · 1 comment
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Today you’ve reached a significant milestone in a young adult’s life, your young adult life. Today you are 21 years old. I had a bit of trouble falling asleep last night and as I was trying to settle down, I reflected on how I was actually awake most of the night before you were born. […]
