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Jun 1
3 min

We find ourselves in strange times.

“If you had a good dad, then Father’s Day can be sorrowful and maybe even bittersweet as you remember good times. If you had a more diffi...

From Stephanie

May 1
3 min

You're at the Beginning of Something Else

"Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else." -Fred Rogers Until this pandemic, the S...

From Stephanie

Apr 1
4 min

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows.

“Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows…” -William Shakespeare I learned a new title for myself this past week: “veteran survivor...

From Stephanie

Mar 1
4 min

Celebrate their life.

“When we lose someone we love, we can either die with them or live on to celebrate their life. Focus on what we had not what we lost.” - ...

From Stephanie

Feb 1
3 min

Broken Hearts

"I 've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good...

From Stephanie

Jan 1
3 min

"When will this be over?"

“When will this be over?” This is a question that I’ve been asked hundreds of times over the 40 years since Mom died. I’ve been asked at...

From Stephanie

Dec 1, 2019
2 min

2019 Christmas Desiderata

2019 Christmas Desiderata (something desired as essential). Amid the Christmas craziness and rushing, remember that you do not have to pa...

From Stephanie

Nov 1, 2019
5 min

There is a time for everything.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant ...

From Stephanie

Oct 1, 2019
3 min

As the months pass and the seasons change, something of tranquility descends.

“As the months pass and the seasons change, something of tranquility descends, and although the well-remembered footstep will not sound a...

From Stephanie

Sep 1, 2019
3 min

The main impact is just the loss, the incredible loss.

The main impact is just the loss, the incredible loss. The expectations just were gone. The old age that I expected is different. It just...

From Stephanie

Aug 1, 2019
4 min

40 Years.

“What restraint or limit should there be to grief for one so dear?" -Horace 40 years. September 5, 1979-September 5, 2019. How is this ...

From Stephanie

Jul 1, 2019
5 min

Forgiveness

“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is ...

From Stephanie

Jun 1, 2019
4 min

Father’s Day is upon us.

Father’s Day is upon us. On May 29th of this year, my dad would have been 105. Or IS he 105? Oh, well, he was born 105 years ago on May 2...

From Stephanie

May 1, 2019
3 min

Mother's Day.

Mother’s Day. My 40th without my mom here on earth. Grief. We can’t go around it, we can’t go above it, we can’t go below it. We must go...

From Stephanie

Apr 1, 2019
4 min

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows.

FROM STEPHANIE… “Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows…” -William Shakespeare I learned a new title for myself this past week: “v...

From Stephanie

Mar 1, 2019
4 min

The Choice Is Yours.

“When we lose someone we love, we can either die with them or live on to celebrate their life. Focus on what we had not what we lost.” - ...

From Stephanie

Feb 1, 2019
3 min

Healing

“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the o...

From Stephanie

Jan 1, 2019
3 min

Thoughts for the New Year.

“You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel.”...

From Stephanie

Dec 1, 2018
2 min

2018 Christmas Desiderata

2018 Christmas Desiderata (something desired as essential). Amid the Christmas craziness and rushing, remember that you do not have to pa...

From Stephanie

Nov 1, 2018
5 min

There's A Time For Everything.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant ...

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