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Plugging into Frivolity

I live in the city, near surfing beaches where cowgirl boots are not the norm. I don’t have any farm work to do. The nearest horse riding or line dancing classes are about an hour and a half away. I don’t mind a bit of Keith Urban, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, but I’m not really into country music. Yet I delight in regularly wearing…
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April 3, 2018
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Wedding Anniversaries and Milkshakes

Columbus Day weekend is always a memory trigger for me, as it’s when Steve and I got married. Tomorrow is my 20th wedding anniversary. I say is and not “would be” because it is my wedding anniversary dammit, and it always will be. His dying does not mean that day no longer exists for me – that is just silly. I won’t celebrate it in…
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April 1, 2018
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Ridiculously Afraid

I didn’t know that I had to become courageous... forever... after loss. I mistakenly believed that being courageous was only necessary for a couple of years. Maybe three. But every decision and new thought after loss demanded courage. Everything had a dose of fear. I patiently waited for that to change. I thought to myself, the uncharted had to at some point become easier to navigate.…
Christina
March 30, 2018
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I was 18 when my first girlfriend killed herself - she was also 18. There’s always something very strange about suicide. It’s very traumatic because you can never really override that feeling of someone else can do it. That has trapped me before. I remember I was so mad at myself for not being able to save her life that I threw my bed lamp…
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March 29, 2018
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Rollercoasters and Breathing

Dear Reader, I promise I do more than just watch animated movies and visit amusement parks.  Even before my husband, Brian, was diagnosed with heart failure due to the cancer treatment he received as a teenager, we liked to take road trips to see new things or visit family and friends.  Once our daughter was born she was taken along for the ride, too. Sometimes that…
Guest Author
March 28, 2018
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What is Your Launchpad…to Creating Life After Loss?

Can we live well after loss? Walking alongside T through his cancer treatment and finally his death was the most deeply devastating, heart shattering and painful experience of my life and the boys.  And, it was the most precious, meaningful, experience as well.  Life was simple in the sense that nothing else mattered but time with him.  Moments of simply being.  Soaking up each touch,…
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March 27, 2018
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