by Kathy on December 31, 2019 · 2 comments
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8 years ago I participated in a year-end blog meme for the first time called Rewind 2011, with fun and interesting questions designed to get writers and readers to reflect on our lives in 2011. I did so again the following year, with my Rewind 2012. Ever since I did this writing exercise those two […]
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by Kathy on November 11, 2019 · 0 comments
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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 August 6, 2019 · 4 comments
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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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by Kathy on July 30, 2019 · 0 comments
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I wrote and shared another version of this post one year ago today. At some point since then, I found my notes from a session with an old therapist (who moved out of state a few years ago). I discovered that processing “missed potential,” and not “missed opportunity,” were the actual words she used to […]
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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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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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