by Kathy on September 29, 2018 · 4 comments
in Anxiety, Background, Before I Blogged, Bob, Communication, Coping, Courage, Expectations, Family, Frustration, Healing, Hope, Life, Listening, Love, Marriage, Memories, Pain, Relationships, Sadness, Sensativity, The Past, Time, Triggers
I was angry, really angry. And sad. It had been a long and exhausting day. As a WAHM/SAHM, I was able to watch much of the coverage on TV, and thus had been engrossed with what was happening all day. It was triggering for me, as it was for so many women. Me too. I’d […]
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by Kathy on September 17, 2018 · 0 comments
in Abby, Beauty, Birthdays, Blessed, Bob, Courage, Faith, Family, Friends, Gratitude, Happiness, Life, Love, Memories, Milestones, Sean, Siblings, TV Shows, Writing
Dear Abigail Grace, What to say to you… It’s September 17th again! Your 9th Birthday! How exciting is that?! You’ve been asking for days what time you could wake up this morning, since you wanted to get the celebration going as early as possible… In part because you wanted to be sure there would be […]
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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 August 23, 2018 · 0 comments
in Anticipation, Background, Balance, Bereavement, Coping, Faith, Friends, Grace, Grief, Hope, Life, Listening, Loss, Love, Memories, Music, Odds, Relationships, Signs
For the longest time I didn’t understand what people meant, when they said that God would speak to them. I thought they literally heard a voice saying what direction to take in life, when they were struggling with an important decision or situation. In the spring of 1996 (my junior year of college), while traveling […]
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by Kathy on August 1, 2018 · 0 comments
in Bereavement, Communication, Coping, Decisions, Dreams, Family, Friends, Grief, Healing, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, Social Media, The Past, Time
“Elephants never forget…” That’s what his dad said, after giving me a cute stuffed animal elephant (not the one pictured here), that he and his wife/my old friend’s mom found for me while boot (a.k.a. garage/rummage) sale shopping the previous weekend. I’d told them when we first met about how I’d been collecting elephants, mostly […]
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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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