Pain

7 years ago today we experienced our first miscarriage. 7 years ago today we lost our pregnancy innocence. 7 years ago today our first dream of having another child close in age to our son died. 7 years ago today we tried to understand why. 7 years ago today we tried to accept what had […]

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 Photo Credit: Michael Brosilow Last week Bob and I got to see another wonderful play at the Steppenwolf Theater here in Chicago. Our last visit there was to see a memorable piece called Sex with Strangers which I wrote about here.  That play dealt with the power of words (both in print and on the Internet), as well as […]

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I recently wrote about my “All-Time Favorite Post” as part of my new blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesdays. It was interesting and therapeutic to revisit my favorite post and see how far my family and I have come since I wrote it in March 2009. Angie, from Still Life with Circles, had another awesome idea for a blog round up recently. […]

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Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the fourth installment of my new blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! In case you missed my original post about this, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here to participate and link […]

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Let’s do the Time Warp! Welcome to the first installment of my new blog hop called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! In case you missed my post about this last week, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here to participate and link up […]

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One of my cousins, who is a psychologist, recently sent me an email with the link to an ABC News article that she had received from the American Psychological Association (APA). The article was about a study that was done looking at the increased health risks to parents who have survived the death of one or more of […]

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