Bereaved and Blessed

My Dad’s Obituary: Kevin Howard Axe

July 15, 2021

There is no easy way to share this news… Two weeks ago tonight, on Thursday, July 1, 2021, my beloved dad, Kevin Howard Axe, died unexpectedly. Dad was supposed to have an angiogram the next morning, in preparation for a TAVR procedure later this month, to replace a valve in his heart. He had aortic […]

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Remembering Molly (13 years) ~ Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

April 17, 2021

Happy 13th Heavenly Birthday, Molly Marie! Today you would be 13, a teenager. I’ve been struggling to write this for so many reasons. This week has felt really heavy, not to mention this month and year. It is both healthy and okay to feel everything I am feeling and it is really hard. I will […]

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14 Years in 14 Words

April 10, 2021

14 years ago today, on April 10, 2007, I began blogging. On past blogoversaries I have shared things that I have learned from blogging and nine years ago, since my blogoversary fell on the second Tuesday of April, I chose “Blogoversaries” to be the Time Warp topic for that month. Eight Years ago, I decided to keep it simple and choose one […]

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My London Semester Journal II: Saturday, March 30, 1996

February 24, 2021

Saturday, 3-30-96 7:00 PM Edinburgh, Scotland 1:00 PM E-Town Before telling about what an awesome time this road trip weekend in Scotland has been, I will mention a few more things about the end of of last week… When Lori & I took the tube home Wed. night we ended up having to get off […]

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Finding My Way to The Fault in Our Stars

January 26, 2021

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is the first book that I finished in 2021 and I loved it so much! I bought it awhile back when it was on sale via Audible, before I knew about and switched to Libro.fm (benefitting our local independent bookstore), because I’d heard good things about both […]

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Rewind 2020

December 31, 2020

9 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 […]