Bereaved and Blessed

Gatekeeping (1st Edition)

January 14, 2012

How are you feeling? What are your plans for tomorrow? I shared the back story of these simple and yet powerful questions in this post. In 2011 I lost two loved ones to suicide. I realize that there is likely nothing I could have done to change the outcome of their lives, but it is […]

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Are You There Readers? It’s Me, Kathy!

January 13, 2012

The the word on blog street is that it’s International Blog Delurking Week (IBDW). So I am jumping on the bandwagon and inviting you to let me know that you are here. As Mel explains in her blog post about IBDW: It is fairly easy. Leave a comment in the comment section below admitting that you’re here. You can […]

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BlogHer Book Club: Why Women Need Fat

January 12, 2012

I’ll admit it, the main reason I signed up to read and review Why Women Need Fat by Dr. William D. Lassek and Dr. Steven J.C. Gaulin, my fifth BlogHer Book Club selection, was because of a line in a summary about it which said something about “why those last five pounds seem impossible to […]

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"Crazy Like a (Perfectly Normal) Bereaved Parent"

January 10, 2012

I have read a lot of commentary about what happened last week when Fox News contributor Alan Colmes attacked Republican Party primary Presidential candidate Rick Santorum and his wife Karen for the “crazy” way they dealt with the death of their son soon after his birth in 1996. Political views and party affiliations aside, I believe what Mr. […]

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Sibling Snippets: Exclamations

January 10, 2012

These are some recent exclamations that our children have said that I found sweet and amusing: “Abby is so imaginative!” ~ Sean After observing his younger sister pretend playing with her toy kitchen. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “I wasn’t expecting that!” ~ Abby After I picked her up and took her out of the Pack -n- Play she […]

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Time Warp Tuesday: New Years

January 3, 2012

Happy New Year! Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the thirteenth installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday here on Four of a Kind! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up […]