Grief

Time Warp Tuesday: `Tis the Season (Updated)

by Kathy on December 20, 2011 · 7 comments

in Abby, Blog Hops, Bob, Coping, Faith, Family, Friends, Grief, Healing, Holidays, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Molly, Our Home, Sean, Time Warp Tuesdays

*Please read the update about the next topic/scheduling for our next Time Warp Tuesday towards the end of this post. Thank you!* Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the twelfth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, here is the […]

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…that their light may always shine

by Kathy on December 11, 2011 · 5 comments

in Bereavement, Coping, Faith, Family, Friends, Grief, Healing, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Molly, Song Lyrics

Earlier tonight I participated in a Candle Lighting sponsored by our local South Suburban Chapter of The Compassionate Friends. As many of you know, it is part of a much larger Worldwide Candle Lighting that takes place every year on the second Sunday in December at 7:00 p.m. around the globe. Though every year since […]

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Feeling Helpless, But Not Hopeless (Updated)

by Kathy on December 3, 2011 · 8 comments

in Adoption, Background, Coping, Decisions, Family, Godparents, Grief, Hope, Love, Molly, Pain, Peace, The Future

*I’ve added an update at the end of this post.* This week I have gotten a taste of what it feels like to be on “the other side.” The other side being a place where loved ones wait for news and do their best to show their love and support for those they care deeply […]

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7 Years

by Kathy on December 1, 2011 · 4 comments

in Bereavement, Faith, Family, Grief, Healing, Hope, Infertility, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Milestones, Pain, Peace, Time, Waiting

7 years ago today we experienced our first miscarriage. 7 years ago today we lost our pregnancy innocence. 7 years ago today our first dream of having another child close in age to our son died. 7 years ago today we tried to understand why. 7 years ago today we tried to accept what had […]

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A Beautiful Cartoon

by Kathy on November 16, 2011 · 5 comments

in 9/11, Bereavement, Faith, Grief, Healing, Inspiration, Loss, NaBloPoMo, Social Media

Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly’s ABC News Special Interview with Diane Sawyer aired on Monday night. I haven’t seen the whole thing, but have caught clips of their moving interchange about Gabby’s “journey towards recovery” in various headline news stories. As so often is the case with national news stories, such as this […]

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Otherness

by Kathy on November 9, 2011 · 6 comments

in Bereavement, Bob, Change, Family, Fear, Grief, Inspiration, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, NaBloPoMo, Pain, Quotes, Steppenwolf, Suicide Prevention, The Future, Theater, Writing

 Photo Credit: Michael Brosilow Last week Bob and I got to see another wonderful play at the Steppenwolf Theater here in Chicago. Our last visit there was to see a memorable piece called Sex with Strangers which I wrote about here.  That play dealt with the power of words (both in print and on the Internet), as well as […]

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