by Kathy on September 10, 2018 · 0 comments
in Bereavement, Blessed, Blogging, Communication, Coping, Gatekeeping, Gratitude, Grief, Hope, Journey, Life, Loss, Love, Mental Health, Pain, Reality, Relationships, Sadness, Sensativity, Suicide Prevention, Writing
How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the fourteenth edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. It’s been well over a year since we last did some Gatekeeping here. In recent years I’ve been surprised by how much […]
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by Kathy on September 9, 2018 · 0 comments
in Anxiety, Background, Before I Blogged, Change, Coping, Courage, Expectations, Journey, Life, London Semester Journals, Memories, The Past, Time, Writing
Tuesday, 1-2-96 2:00 AM E-Town 8:00 AM London Well, its 2 AM/8 AM and I just ate breakfast! It’s gonna be long day… Though I’ve rested, I haven’t really slept, so I believe I will be experiencing a great deal of jet lag! The stewards and stewardesses have been great! In addition to wine & […]
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by Kathy on September 8, 2018 · 0 comments
in Anticipation, Background, Before I Blogged, Change, Expectations, Journey, London Semester Journals, Memories, The Past, Writing
Monday, 1-1-96 10:25 PM Evanston Time ☺︎ 4:25 AM London Time (1-2-96) Wow! It’s for real now… I am on British Airways as I write this en route to London, England! Just finished watching my first on flight film, The Bridges of Madison County. It was a romance and I even got teary eyes towards the […]
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by Kathy on September 4, 2018 · 4 comments
in Background, Before I Blogged, Blogging, Coping, Friends, Journey, Life, London Semester Journals, Loss, Memories, Pain, The Past, Time, Transitions, Writing
Before I blogged, I was an avid, albeit inconsistent, journaler. I started young, the oldest one I can find I bought from a Scholastic Book Fair in early elementary school. I continued off and on through grade school, college, grad school and young adulthood, until I began writing and sharing here, on my blog, in […]
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by Kathy on June 5, 2018 · 1 comment
in Bereavement, Books, Change, Communication, Coping, Decisions, Diversions, Family, Grief, Life, Loss, Love, Marriage, Neonatal Death, Relationships, Reviews, Writing
My friend recommended this book, Little Disasters by Randall Klein, and I knew she wouldn’t steer me wrong. I listened via Audible and was captivated by the way the story was told, jumping back and forth between different time periods, slowly revealing how these two couples’ relationships became intertwined. I appreciate how the author allowed us to […]
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by Kathy on May 18, 2018 · 0 comments
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I watched the Grey’s Anatomy Season 14 Finale on DVR today and realized that it’s been 10 years since Bob and I (who were late to the party) started binge watching the previous four seasons to catch up in time for Season 5 that Fall. It was something we did together, after Molly was born […]
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