Bereaved and Blessed

We Heal Here

August 21, 2013

On the third Monday of the month, we gather, we share, we listen, we care. We Heal Here Whether its been 10 days, 10 weeks, 10 months or 10 years. We Heal Here We tell our stories. We grieve together. We hold each other up when we feel like we’re falling apart. We Heal Here […]

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Gatekeeping (11th Edition)

August 14, 2013

How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? Welcome to the eleventh edition of my “Gatekeeping” blog series. I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. It’s been three months since we last did some Gatekeeping here and my life has felt like a whirlwind. What seemed like […]

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I’m Syndicated on BlogHer!

August 13, 2013

One of my recent posts, about the blogging voices we fill, was chosen for syndication on BlogHer! Today it went live in the Blogging and Social Media section. This is the second time I have had a post syndicated on BlogHer and I feel honored to have this opportunity again. My original post was called Everybody needs a… I […]

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Time Warp Tuesday: Peace

August 13, 2013

Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the 34th installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are […]

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A New Heart for Ray

August 12, 2013

I am trying to finish up my Time Warp Tuesday post about “peace,” but can’t stop thinking about and praying for Ray. As I shared via social media earlier today, my friend Amanda (who I got to know through participating in a MOPS group over the past four years) and her family got “the call” that […]

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Everybody needs a…

August 9, 2013

There was an awesome moment during the BlogHer’13 Anatomy of a Story panel on Saturday when Vikki said, “Everybody needs a gay… and so I always think about, when I write on my blog, that I’m the gay for people that don’t have one.” People started laughing and tweeting what she said, because it was a great […]