Bereaved and Blessed

Gatekeeping (14th Edition)

September 10, 2018

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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My London Semester Journal I: Tuesday, January 2, 1996

September 9, 2018

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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My London Semester Journal I: Monday, January 1, 1996

September 8, 2018

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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My London Semester Journals

September 4, 2018

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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Closing Time with Dr. Smartass

August 30, 2018

I remember how he used to tease me for bringing my binder, with colored coded spreadsheets, to track our relatively routine pregnancy with Sean in 2003. And then he was the doctor on call during our scheduled induction, which ended up being an augmentation, when I went into natural labor earlier that day (10 days […]

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Are You Listening?

August 23, 2018

For the longest time I didn’t understand what people meant, when they said that God would speak to them. I thought they literally heard a voice saying what direction to take in life, when they were struggling with an important decision or situation. In the spring of 1996 (my junior year of college), while traveling […]