STEPHANIE’S BLOG
The Love We Still Carry: A Father’s Day Reflection
From Stephanie June 2025 Reprint From 2013 “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 difficult relationship, the day can bring up feelings of loneliness and sadness. Or if...
Some Way, Somehow, Somewhen
From Stephanie May 2025 “Just put your hand in mineWe’ll walk in the sand togetherJust let your heart drift throughOur life You’ve always been there You’ve always been thereI’m never aloneNo way, no how, no when”-Procol Harum (Somewhen) Several thoughts,...
Veteran Survivor: Older Than My Mother Ever Was
“Grief and gratitude intertwine as we navigate the changing seasons of life. This Thanksgiving, discover how to honor your loved ones, embrace your emotions, and find hope in the midst of loss.”
Honoring the Legacy, Embracing the Love
“Grief and gratitude intertwine as we navigate the changing seasons of life. This Thanksgiving, discover how to honor your loved ones, embrace your emotions, and find hope in the midst of loss.”
“The problem with death is absence.”
“Grief and gratitude intertwine as we navigate the changing seasons of life. This Thanksgiving, discover how to honor your loved ones, embrace your emotions, and find hope in the midst of loss.”
“Let your New Year begin…”
“Grief and gratitude intertwine as we navigate the changing seasons of life. This Thanksgiving, discover how to honor your loved ones, embrace your emotions, and find hope in the midst of loss.”
2020 Christmas Desiderata (something desired as essential).
“Grief and gratitude intertwine as we navigate the changing seasons of life. This Thanksgiving, discover how to honor your loved ones, embrace your emotions, and find hope in the midst of loss.”
A Season for Grief, Gratitude, & Growth
“Grief and gratitude intertwine as we navigate the changing seasons of life. This Thanksgiving, discover how to honor your loved ones, embrace your emotions, and find hope in the midst of loss.”
We Are Surviving
“As the months pass and the seasons change, something of tranquility descends, and although the well-remembered footstep will not sound again, nor the voice call from the room beyond, there seems to be about one in the air an atmosphere of love, a living presence…It...
Look for the Butterflies
"They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods." - Edith Wharton September will mark 45 years for me since Mom died. She took her life sometime over Labor Day Week-End in 1979. She was dead about 2 days...
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