by Kathy on June 17, 2019 · 0 comments
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Sunday, 3-10-96 7:45 PM Somewhere btw. Galway & Dublin, Ireland 1:45 PM E-Town Well, I must be on a roll with this here journal writing thing, for after a little over 2 months abroad I am finished with the Mary Englebreit one that Erin Sadler so thoughtfully gave me for an X-mas/going away gift! And […]
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by Kathy on April 17, 2019 · 0 comments
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Happy 11th Heavenly Birthday, Molly Marie! Here we are again… Celebrating you, forever our baby girl, wondering what might’ve been, and making the best of what is. Today it’s been 11 (my lucky number) years since I held you. Your death certainly didn’t make me feel very lucky at the time, though I was/am forever […]
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12 years ago today, on April 10, 2007, I began blogging. On past blogoversaries I have shared things that I have learned from blogging and seven years ago, since my blogoversary fell on the second Tuesday of April, I chose “Blogoversaries” to be the Time Warp topic for that month. Six Years ago, I decided to keep it simple and choose one […]
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by Kathy on March 27, 2019 · 0 comments
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Wednesday, 3-6-96 12:27 AM London 6:27 PM E-Town (3-5-96) Well, I am 21 now! At least in England I am… I just talked to Mom & Dad! When they answered the phone and heard my voice they sang “Happy Birthday!” to me! They are so sweet… it was just so great to hear their voices! […]
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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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by Kathy on February 15, 2019 · 1 comment
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I started over with Book 1 in early November 2018, after not getting past Book 3 in early 2012, when Sean read all 7. Abby had started reading them a bit before then and was already on Book 3. I caught up quickly and we’ve tried to keep pace with each other ever since, though […]
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