by Kathy on July 22, 2021 · 0 comments
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As I shared in my last post, three weeks ago today (Thursday, July 1, 2020) my Dad died unexpectedly. On Saturday, July 10, 2020, we had his funeral at St. Nick’s Parish church in Evanston and laid him to rest at Memorial Park cemetery in Skokie. As the spirit moves me, I will share memories […]
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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 September 22, 2020 · 4 comments
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I’ll never understand why grief hits us the way it does, at any given moment, and I cannot seem to stop crying since I heard the news. We never got to meet in person and I am still so damn heartbroken. Cancer really sucks. I didn’t think you were going to die and as far […]
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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 October 21, 2019 · 3 comments
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Monday, 3-11-96 8:40 AM En Route to London 2:40 AM E-Town After a very bearable ferry ride & now a painless coach ride (through most of which I slept…) — we are w/in miles of London. Whatta trip! Picking up where I left off… We arrived in Dublin, Ireland’s capital city, at about 8 AM […]
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by Kathy on February 19, 2019 · 0 comments
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How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the fifteenth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. It’s been about 5 months since we last did some Gatekeeping here. Yesterday I learned that an old/hometown friend lost her battle […]
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