by Kathy on October 2, 2020 · 0 comments
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It’s an old song It’s an old tale from way back when It’s an old song And that is how it ends That’s how it goes Don’t ask why, brother, don’t ask how He could have come so close The song was written long ago Your Daddy likes to tease me that when I start […]
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by Kathy on June 24, 2020 · 1 comment
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We’re over 3 months in to navigating life in the time of this global pandemic… Over the weekend I found myself asking, “Now what?” This week my family and I recommitted to making the best of our situation/this unique (to say the least) summer. It isn’t going to be easy, as a friend reminded me […]
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by Kathy on March 6, 2020 · 1 comment
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Today I turned 45. Since entering my forties in 2015, I’d hoped, as well as worked to try to make it possible, for someone else to be #45 (making her our first female President), when I turned 45. What has transpired since that didn’t come to pass has been surreal and heartbreaking for me and […]
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by Kathy on December 31, 2019 · 2 comments
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8 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. Ever since I did this writing exercise those two […]
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by Kathy on October 2, 2019 · 0 comments
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I intended to start this with a line from a song that I love, called Jack & Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp. It’s about holding on to “16 as long as you can, (because) changes come around real soon (that) make us women and men.” I was going to write about how magical this time […]
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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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