by Kathy on March 6, 2020 · 1 comment
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Today I turned 45. Since entering my forties in 2015, I’d hoped, as well as worked to try to make it possible, for someone else to be #45 (making her our first female President), when I turned 45. What has transpired since that didn’t come to pass has been surreal and heartbreaking for me and […]
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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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by Kathy on October 2, 2019 · 0 comments
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I intended to start this with a line from a song that I love, called Jack & Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp. It’s about holding on to “16 as long as you can, (because) changes come around real soon (that) make us women and men.” I was going to write about how magical this time […]
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by Kathy on September 17, 2019 · 0 comments
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You are here, at the start of a moment… Double Digits! A decade in this world and with our family. You reminded us last night that you wouldn’t technically turn 10 until 7:55 a.m. this morning and joked you were going to shout out, “I’m 10!” when the time came at school. You are very […]
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by Kathy on July 30, 2019 · 0 comments
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I wrote and shared another version of this post one year ago today. At some point since then, I found my notes from a session with an old therapist (who moved out of state a few years ago). I discovered that processing “missed potential,” and not “missed opportunity,” were the actual words she used to […]
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by Kathy on January 8, 2019 · 1 comment
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Monday, 2-26-96 1:08 AM London 7:08 PM E-Town (2-25-96) Ronald & I finally got to Chinatown at about 1PM. It was great to wander the streets & see all the festivities going on for the Chinese New Year Celebration! I even bought a little paper dragon for a souvenir & a fortune cookie which read, […]
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