by Kathy on November 11, 2019 · 0 comments
in Anticipation, Before I Blogged, Bereavement, Bob, Coping, Faith, Family, Food, Friends, Grief, Life, London Semester Journals, Loss, Memories, Music, Relationships, School, Social Media, The Past, Time, Travel, Vacations, Writing
Tuesday, 3-12-96 7:50 PM London 1:50 PM E-Town Tuesday evening, turned in my essay for British Society this afternoon, so I finally have time to do laundry… Much needed! The lady who works here just told me I have beautiful handwriting & asked if I was writing in English! Don’t quite know what to make […]
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by Kathy on October 21, 2019 · 3 comments
in Before I Blogged, Expectations, Faith, Family, Food, Friends, Happiness, Journey, Life, London Semester Journals, Memories, Molly, Priorities, Relaxation, School, Song Lyrics, The Past, Time, Travel, TV Shows, Vacations
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 October 2, 2019 · 0 comments
in Anticipation, Balance, Bereavement, Birthdays, Blessed, Change, Communication, Coping, Courage, Decisions, Family, Friends, Gratitude, Grief, Happiness, Life, Loss, Love, Luck, Memories, Milestones, Molly, Music, Pain, Parenting, Priorities, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, School, Sean, Siblings, Theater, Time, Travel, Vacations
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 September 17, 2019 · 0 comments
in Abby, Anticipation, Birthdays, Bob, Books, Communication, Courage, Dance, Decisions, Dreams, Family, Gratitude, Grief, Life, Loss, Love, Memories, Milestones, Molly, Priorities, Relationships, Running, School, Sean, Sensativity, Theater, Time, Travel
You are here, at the start of a moment… Double Digits! A decade in this world and with our family. You reminded us last night that you wouldn’t technically turn 10 until 7:55 a.m. this morning and joked you were going to shout out, “I’m 10!” when the time came at school. You are very […]
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by Kathy on August 20, 2019 · 0 comments
in breast care, Cancer, Communication, Cysts, Family, Happiness, Journey, Life, Time, Travel
On Friday afternoon I got a call from the breast center with fabulous news! The results came back earlier than expected. The mass in my breast is a fibroadenoma. It is completely benign and doesn’t need to be removed. Wahoo!!! Yippee!!! Yay!!! They do want me to return for a follow up ultrasound and mammogram […]
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by Kathy on August 6, 2019 · 4 comments
in Anticipation, Anxiety, breast care, Cancer, Coping, Cysts, Expectations, Hope, Memories, Odds, Reality, Travel, Ultrasounds, Vacations, Waiting, Writing
I was supposed to return in 6 months. You’d think, as someone who struggles with anxiety, I’d have been counting down the days to get my right breast rechecked, to see how what they found in December, a small mostly fluid filled cyst with a bit of solid, that had a “high probability of being […]
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