by Kathy on January 12, 2025 · 1 comment
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13 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. After that I took six years off, starting up […]
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by Kathy on December 28, 2024 · 1 comment
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I rarely remember dreams these days. Four months and 10 days ago, on Sunday, August 18th, I slept later than usual, in part because I was still recovering from my first (after all this time) experience having COVID. I had a vivid dream with a lot going on. My mom showed up towards the end […]
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by Kathy on February 29, 2024 · 0 comments
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It’s my 13th Leap Day. On my 11th, I shared this post, which was adapted from an earlier version that I wrote for The3Six5 writing project, on February 29, 2012 (my 10th Leap Day). I am including parts of those two posts (in some cases adapted) again today, as they are interesting to revisit. I […]
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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 December 4, 2018 · 0 comments
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Saturday, 2-17-96 9:20 AM London 3:20 AM E-Town Well, as often recently, it has been a few days since I have written in here… So backtracking… Tues. afternoon I had British Society class. Nothing too exciting, Matthew Broderick babbled on as usual & at one pt., mid-lecture, busted out with “Life is not a bowl […]
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by Kathy on November 8, 2018 · 0 comments
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Thursday, 1-25-96 12:16 AM London 6:16 PM E-Town (1-24-96) Well, easily amused I am & that was the theme for my roomie and I this evening… We were sorta bored, slap happy, & planning her b-day celebration for Friday night, when the subject of our “Welsh friends” arose… We started laughing about what would happen […]
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