Peace

About five years ago I had the idea to make a video in honor of National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day which is observed annually on October 15th. Each year the date would near and I would day-dream about the the photo montage I had imagined, the songs I might use and what it […]

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How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the ninth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. September was a whirlwind for me and my family — from the Chicago Teachers Union Strike to planning and pulling […]

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Sometimes we see them at the exact moment we need them… Tonight these two welcomed me at the hospital when I arrived for my perinatal bereavement support group meeting.

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Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the twenty-second installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here to […]

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This weekend has been wonderful, busy and at times bittersweet for my family and me. We got to spend quality time and had a lot of fun with loved ones, some of whom we hadn’t seen in a while, at a family reunion. In light of the family reunion, we didn’t spend much time in […]

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Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the twenty-first installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are here to participate […]

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