by Kathy on April 17, 2012 · 13 comments
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Happy 4th Heavenly Birthday Molly Marie! Has it really been four years since I last held you in my arms? It’s hard for me to believe that much time has passed since you were born and took your last breath. It is both painful and healing for me to write you this letter every year. It […]
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by Kathy on April 15, 2012 · 5 comments
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This is my third and final post about Titanic this week. Here are links to my previous two posts: Titanic – Part I: It Was Sad When the Great Ship Went Down Titanic – Part II: Haven Exploration Originally I envisioned this last post being about some of my other connections and experiences related to […]
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by Kathy on April 10, 2012 · 11 comments
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Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the eighteenth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here to […]
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by Kathy on April 6, 2012 · 3 comments
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Usually my family and I, or at least I, attend Good Friday evening mass during Holy Week. However, we decided to go to The Stations of the Cross at our church this afternoon instead. Though I have vague recollections of participating in the Stations a few times throughout my life, it has not been something I have done […]
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by Kathy on March 13, 2012 · 7 comments
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Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the seventeenth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday and my first here at Bereaved and Blessed! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with […]
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by Kathy on March 6, 2012 · 0 comments
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This week I am participating for the first time in BlogHer and Procter & Gamble’s Life Well Lived editorial program as part of a panel of bloggers. The category our panel writes about is “Getting Happy” and we were asked to answer this question: How do you teach the children in your life happiness? I […]
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