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THEN — My dad, my sister, me and my mom in front of Spaceship Earth at Epcot (July 1985): NOW — Me, Abby, Bob and Sean in front of Spaceship Earth at Epcot (November 2011): 26 years after I first visited Disney World with my parents and sister I got to return there to experience […]

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My Happy Place

by Kathy on November 19, 2011 · 2 comments

in Coping, Happiness, Life, NaBloPoMo

Today I had one of those days, the kind where you don’t know whether to laugh or cry at times and to be honest I did some of both. When this happens there are a variety of ways that I use to process my experience and to cope. As evidence here on my blog, one […]

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Lulls and Funks

by Kathy on November 18, 2011 · 5 comments

in Inspiration, NaBloPoMo, Writing

It is Day 18 of  NaBloPoMo and I have hit some kind of lull or funk. Its not that I don’t have enough ideas for what to write about here, its that I am just not *feeling it.* I have a list of topics that I am looking forward to exploring, but today I do not […]

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The Letter of the Day is "L"

by Kathy on November 17, 2011 · 5 comments

in Abby, Memories, NaBloPoMo

Lately Abby has gotten very verbal and, for two year-old, she speaks very well. However, she struggles to pronounce her “Ls” just right. When she uses the letter “L” in a word, if often comes out sounding more like an “LY” sound. So when our little girl says words like: “umbrella” the color “blue” or […]

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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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Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the eighth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! Today is also the fifteenth day of NaBloPoMo, so if you found your way here from the Blogroll (I’m #313 on the list of 2,216) or the open thread, a warm welcome to […]

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