by Kathy on September 10, 2018 · 0 comments
in Bereavement, Blessed, Blogging, Communication, Coping, Gatekeeping, Gratitude, Grief, Hope, Journey, Life, Loss, Love, Mental Health, Pain, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, Sensativity, Suicide Prevention, Writing
How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the fourteenth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. It’s been well over a year since we last did some Gatekeeping here. In recent years I’ve been surprised by how much […]
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by Kathy on September 9, 2018 · 0 comments
in Anxiety, Background, Before I Blogged, Change, Coping, Courage, Expectations, Journey, Life, London Semester Journals, Memories, The Past, Time, Writing
Tuesday, 1-2-96 2:00 AM E-Town 8:00 AM London Well, its 2 AM/8 AM and I just ate breakfast! It’s gonna be long day… Though I’ve rested, I haven’t really slept, so I believe I will be experiencing a great deal of jet lag! The stewards and stewardesses have been great! In addition to wine & […]
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by Kathy on September 8, 2018 · 0 comments
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Monday, 1-1-96 10:25 PM Evanston Time ☺︎ 4:25 AM London Time (1-2-96) Wow! It’s for real now… I am on British Airways as I write this en route to London, England! Just finished watching my first on flight film, The Bridges of Madison County. It was a romance and I even got teary eyes towards the […]
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by Kathy on September 4, 2018 · 4 comments
in Background, Before I Blogged, Blogging, Coping, Friends, Journey, Life, London Semester Journals, Loss, Memories, Pain, The Past, Time, Transitions, Writing
Before I blogged, I was an avid, albeit inconsistent, journaler. I started young, the oldest one I can find I bought from a Scholastic Book Fair in early elementary school. I continued off and on through grade school, college, grad school and young adulthood, until I began writing and sharing here, on my blog, in […]
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by Kathy on August 30, 2018 · 0 comments
in Abby, Anxiety, Babies Benson, Background, Birthdays, Blessed, Change, Coping, Gratitude, Infertility, Journey, Life, Listening, Loss, Memories, Miscarriage, Music, Pregnancy, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, Secondary Infertility, Signs, Time, Transitions
I remember how he used to tease me for bringing my binder, with colored coded spreadsheets, to track our relatively routine pregnancy with Sean in 2003. And then he was the doctor on call during our scheduled induction, which ended up being an augmentation, when I went into natural labor earlier that day (10 days […]
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by Kathy on July 30, 2018 · 0 comments
in Background, Before I Blogged, Bereavement, Cancer, Coping, Dreams, Friends, Gratitude, Grief, Journey, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Music, Pain, Peace, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, Signs, Therapy, Time, Titanic, Triggers
I returned to therapy, after a few years off, in 2011. I was struggling with some difficult relationships in my life, as well as trying to make peace with the deaths of two loved ones, while also weighing the pros and cons of a big decision for our family. Those were the objectives I laid […]
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