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Category Archives: Friendships
Truth Or Consequences In Writing Memoir
“I was sitting at a beach with my notebook, and I’m thinking about how to get back into [writing] and what matters to me, and I just sort of self-destructed at Brothers & Sisters. I had written about personal events … Continue reading
Posted in family, Friendships, Memoir, Navigating Through Life, Quotes, Theatre
Tagged Consequences, DC, Family Drama, loss, Moving Forward, The Arena Stage, Truth, Washington
6 Comments
Don’ Give Up
I’ve been running into those words often for a couple of days now as I try to get myself back into my daily routine and at work on my memoir. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks in which the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Dogs, family, Friendships, Gratefulness, Healing, Life, love, Memoir, Navigating Through Life, Quotes, The Garden, Time, Uncategorized, Wise Words, Writing
Tagged Easter, Grandchildren, Harry Potter, Intentions, joy, laughter, loss, Moving Forward, Shirley Showalter, Traveling, Virginia Festival of the Book
8 Comments
Brody 2008 – 2013
I am bereft. I cannot possibly write about it now. Maybe later. Just know he was a very small dog with a huge personality and lived his life living with joy until the very end. He taught me many lessons while … Continue reading
Posted in Animals I Love, Dogs, family, Friendships, Gratefulness, The Journey, Uncategorized
Tagged Angels, joy, laughter, loss, love, Time-out
28 Comments
Batty’s Pride And Joy
Who’s Batty? I am. That’s what my granddaughter, Zoe named me when she was just beginning to talk and it’s stuck. Doesn’t sound anything like Grandma or Grammy or any other name little kids call their grandmothers. But that’s fine … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood, family, Friendships, Gratefulness, Life, love, Time, Travels, Uncategorized
Tagged Feeding the Soul, joy, laughter, trust
16 Comments
Companionship
Sam has lost three of his best friends this past year. Last November it was Molly, the little Maltese/Terrier mix with whom he fell head over heels in love with the first time he met her. They were very close … Continue reading
Posted in Animals I Love, family, Friendships, Gratefulness, Life, love, marriage, Mental Health, Travels
Tagged Angels, Animal rescuers, Cats, companionship, dogs, grieving, Life, loss, love, SPCA, trust
10 Comments
Peppermint, 2005-2012
The first time I saw her, I had just signed up as a volunteer at the SPCA to help care for the cats that were housed at our local Pet Smart store. She sat in her cage playing with a … Continue reading
On Winning And Losing
Truth is best served by recognizing a viewpoint as only a viewpoint, and refraining from taking that extra step of regarding it as true to the exclusion of all other views. In other words, all views–even correct views–are best held … Continue reading
Posted in Friendships, Gratefulness, Memoir, Navigating Through Life, photography, The Garden
Tagged flowers, Judging, Losing, Moving Forward, Rejection, trust, Winning, Worthiness
8 Comments
Meltdown: What Happened After A Recent Trip And How Not To Let It Happen Again
It’s Tuesday. I just walked in the house after a six-hour plane trip from Vermont. It was a fast paced and emotion filled trip seeing friends, family members and revisiting old haunts. I’m tired, but before I can sit down … Continue reading
Posted in family, Friendships, Memoir, Mental Health, Navigating Through Life, Time, Travels, Vermont, Writing
Tagged Angels, Anxiety, Inner Critic, love, meltdown, Panic Attacks, Time-out, trust, writer's block
14 Comments