Bereaved and Blessed

Do You Know What I Have Done For You?

April 5, 2012

It’s Holy Thursday in our Catholic/Christian community and our Jewish brothers and sisters’ celebration of Passover begins tomorrow night. Bob, Sean, Abby and I participated in a beautiful mass at our church earlier this evening. The Paschal Triduum is my favorite time of year in our church community and has been since I was a child. Tonight we heard […]

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That’s What Friends Are For

April 2, 2012

One year ago today, on Saturday, April 2, 2011, an old and dear friend of mine died. Two days later, on Monday, I got “the call” from my friend’s aunt with the news. Those are the calls you never, ever, want to receive. Listening to the person on the other end of the line is beyond […]

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Our Latest Project (Before)

March 31, 2012

Since moving into our new home last July we have known that the exterior needed to be painted. There were some more pressing projects that we had to take care of first, but now we are ready to tackle this one (i.e. we hired local painters to do so). I thought it would be fun to […]

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Responses to Tragedy

March 30, 2012

This afternoon I was catching up on another episode of Awake (the fourth episode in the series). In this story line Detective Michael Britten interacts in both of his realities with a woman named Kate who babysat years ago for his now teenage son Rex (who is alive in one reality and dead in the other). […]

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Awake

March 29, 2012

Male Therapist: “So tell me how this works?” Detective Michael Britten: “I’m awake with my wife and I close my eyes, I open them and I’m awake with my son.” Female Therapist: “And this has been happening since, the accident?” Male Therapist: “So you begin working on one case here, in reality, and then suddenly […]

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Do You Exhale?

March 29, 2012

Last week my friend and Exhale Magazine Editor Kristin Binder, from Once a Mother, sent a message to the Exhale Staff. She asked if any of us were willing and able to create a button to promote Exhale and encourage others to get more involved with our literary magazine as readers and especially contributing writers. […]