First, it’s been a month since I posted because I got stuck on posting one specific post that I’ve been working on for, like.. ever. It’s a hard post so I’ve been struggling to complete it and for some reason, I couldn’t move past it without finishing. However, when I saw today’s prompt: Unravel, I …
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love. -Washington Irving. Lucy was born just north of the intersection of Main & Lowell streets in Manchester, …
I’m still missing her with my (not-so) whole anymore heart; my darling, little Lucy. I know she’s still here, only in another form and I miss saying hi to her.
I’m not so sure why I find it necessary to write and blog my year-in-review but after beginning the tradition last year, when I was searching my memory banks very hard for anything precious and good that had happened I realized just how gratifying this small cognitive act can be. Now that I am …
Why do you choose your pain If you only knew How much I love you, Love you I won’t be your winter I won’t be anyone’s excuse to cry and we can be forgiven And I will be here. Old picture on the shelf Well it’s been there for a while Frozen image of ourselves …
I’ve stirred myself into quite the fine drink today. I’ve felt anxious, sad and worried since yesterday. There are a multitude of things going on in my life now and it seems that they are all on the list of top ten stressors. I can’t complain because I know that the end result of it …
Last Sunday would have been my friend Carrie’s 34th birthday. I felt emotional and sad and wanted desperately to just pull the covers up and hide for the entire day. I didn’t know how to handle it. My boss, an amazing woman suggested sending her a card; so I did. It was a comedy of …
You know, Miss Ruth was a lady. And a lady always knows when to leave. (Fried Green Tomatoes) Four months shy of her eighteenth birthday we said so long to our beloved kitty Gertrude. Gertrude was a beautiful, spunky, bright-eyed tortoiseshell cat-dog with just the right mix of ‘tortitude’, generous love and affection, a kitty …
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