Bereaved and Blessed

Expect The Unexpected

August 6, 2019

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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Reconciling Missed Potential

July 30, 2019

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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My London Semester Journal II: Sunday, March 10, 1996

June 17, 2019

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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My London Semester Journal I: Thursday, March 7, 1996

April 30, 2019

Thursday, 3-7-96 9:00 PM London 3:00 PM E-Town My perceptions are extremely heightened at the moment. In the distance thru my window, open just a crack, here at Pembridge, I just heard church bells ring for the hour. I have heard the bells at least 2 other times today. I have been home all day […]

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Remembering Molly (11 years) ~ Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

April 17, 2019

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 in 12 Words

April 10, 2019

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 […]