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Category Archives: Dying
Sometimes The Pressure of the Holly, Isn’t So Jolly…
I’ve always been a Christmas person and when I married Smart Guy and we agreed to raise our children in Jewish faith, I embraced Hanukkah as well. That makes December a big huge holiday fest each year! I love the … Continue reading →
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Posted in Awareness, Beauty, Blog, Christmas, Daily Observations, Death, Death of parent, Dying, Hanukkah, Holidays, Honest observations on many things, Huntington's Disease, Jewish, Life, Mothers, Musings, My world, Parenting, Personal change, Tales From the Motherland, Writing
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Tagged Christmas, death of a parent, grief, Hanukkah, loss, Tales from the Motherland, the Holidays, Traditions
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The Middle: This Is Not About the Election.
This is The Middle. The Middle of the week, and the day I try to write a shorter post. Not today. I’m exhausted and have no time… no time as in, I’m taking time from the things I really need … Continue reading →
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Posted in Activist, Aging, Awareness, Blog, Blogging, blogs, bullying, Courage, Daily Observations, Death, Death of parent, Dying, Education, Election, Foreign exchange students, Freshly Pressed, Honest observations on many things, Humor, Judaism, Malala Yousafzai, Mothers, Musings, My world, NaNoWriMo, News, Obama, Personal change, road trip, Sarcasm, Tales From the Motherland, Taliban, Teens, the Election, The U.N., travel, traveling alone, Women, Women's issues, Wonderful Things, Writing
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Tagged Archives, blogs, death of a parent, Gay, Humor, loss, Marriage equality, pets, Tales from the Motherland, The Election, writing
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365 Regrets, Blessings, Lessons.
All week I’ve found myself tearing up as I drive past the road that leads to the nursing home where my mother lived. I pass the road to Hospice House, where she died December 31, 2011, far more often and … Continue reading →
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Posted in Aging, Awareness, Beauty, Blog, Daily Observations, Death, Death of parent, Dying, Foreign exchange students, Honest observations on many things, Life, Mothers, Musings, My world, Parenting, Women, Women's issues, Writing
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Tagged aging parents, death of a parent, dementia, family, Huntington's Disease, loss, Musings, parents, passage of time, Tales from the Motherland
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Into The Depths
Sunday night we finally took my mother’s ashes out of my dining room cabinet, amidst the fine china and stemware she loved so much, and spread them in the waters around the San Juan Islands. This was her wish. My … Continue reading →
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Posted in Awareness, Beautiful places, Blog, Daily Observations, Death, Death of parent, Dying, Honest observations on many things, Humor, Life, Mothers, Musings, My world, Parenting, Writing
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Tagged blogs, Death, death of a parent, family, grief, Humor, Huntington's Disease, Musings, Sailing, San Juan Islands, Tales from the Motherland
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This Is Not Just a Tail, But a True Love Story
It’s impossible to explain to those who don’t know a good dog’s love, just how much they can mean to you. How they truly become a part of your family. In some ways, I’ve been working on this in the gray … Continue reading →
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Posted in Awareness, Blog, Daily Observations, Death, Death of parent, Dying, Honest observations on many things, Life, Musings, My world, Writing
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Tagged change, companionship, death of a parent, death of dog, death of family pet, Dogs, friendship, Huntington's Disease, loss, love, personal change, pets, writing
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Passing Ghosts.
I wrote this for my a submission in my writing group, with the prompt “Mother’s Day.” It’s not my usual style for the blog, and I did not initially write it for this. However, the wise and talented women in … Continue reading →
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Posted in Aging, Awareness, Beauty, Blog, Daily Observations, Death, Death of parent, Dying, Honest observations on many things, Life, Mother's Day, Mothers, Parenting, Personal change, Women, Writing
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Tagged aging, change, death of a mother, family, Home, Huntington's Disease, love, Mom, Mother's Day, style, Tales from the Motherland
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Stop! I Want to Get Off.
I am in the middle of a big, BIG f*#C%ing meltdown! Admittedly, it’s selfish of me. Because it all revolves around the fact that my son, Middle Man, turned 20 today, and it’s freaking me out! Seriously. Freaking. Me. Out! … Continue reading →
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Posted in Aging, Awareness, Blog, Daily Observations, Death, Dying, Ego, Honest observations on many things, Humor, Life, Mothers, Musings, My world, Parenting, Personal change, Sarcasm, Women, Women's issues
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Tagged aging, blogging, college age kids, Humor, mid-life crisis, parenting, passage of time, sarcasm, Tales from the Motherland, time
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The Middle: Of My Life… Optimistically Speaking. Farewell Davy.
Today, as so often happens, I was planning to post on a particular idea for “The Middle,” when I heard that The Monkees’ Davy Jones had died. I’ll be honest here: I haven’t thought about Davy in a very long … Continue reading →
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Posted in Awareness, Blog, Blogging, Daily Observations, Death, Dying, Honest observations on many things, Life, Musings, Personal change, Writing
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Tagged aging, Awareness, Davy Jones, Death, Tales from the Motherland, Teen Beat, The Monkees, Tiger Beat
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Sideways Moment, With Bono
I miss my Mom. It’s not that I didn’t expect that, to some extent… but I guess I’m more surprised by the hair trigger moments when that emotion seems to hit me, in varying degrees. It hadn’t occurred to me … Continue reading →
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Posted in Awareness, Blog, Daily Observations, Death, Death of parent, Dying, Honest observations on many things, Musings, My world, Personal change, Women's issues, Writing
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Tagged Bono, Death, death of a parent, grief, healing, Huntington's Disease, sarcasm, Skiing, U2, writing
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Sound Bites from the U.N. and Baby Steps.
It’s been two weeks since Mom died, and I am still trying to catch my breath. It’s strange how I worked on a sort of auto pilot for two+ months, working on the manuscript, keeping our house running, and sitting … Continue reading →
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Posted in Awareness, Beauty, Blog, Daily Observations, Death, Death of parent, Dying, Foreign exchange students, High School, Honest observations on many things, Humor, Life, Mothers, Musings, My world, Parenting, Personal change, Teens, Writing, Yoga
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Tagged blogging, Carol's Daughter products, death of a parent, Humor, reflection, self-awareness, Tales from the Motherland, Teens, The U.N., transformation, writing
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