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Closing the Door: Emptying the Family Home After Five Decades

The last two months have been a blur for my husband and I. We have had the task of emptying his childhood home. His parents, both in their 90’s, moved to a retirement facility earlier this year, albeit with much resistance. For eight months the house remained empty and intact. Even though working gradually through…

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How Self Portraits Revealed The Inner Me

In the last few months I’ve been on a bit of a journey with myself. Hmm, I do hate using the word journey as it makes me feel like I’m on some bad reality tv show. It has been a step by step process, a progression of sorts. Maybe it is best described as a…

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Time to stop procrastinating

Procrastination. Hmmm. Yup. I can be guilty of that. Not for everything, as I can be very selective in my efforts. I think that is pretty common though, it’s much easier to do the things I want to do. Somehow, I can always find the time for those things. I’m pretty good at all the…

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Here’s to a Kinder, gentler, Happy New Year.

Happy New Year. I hope you are well. Recently, I opened up my blog and I was surprised to see that my last post was a year and a half ago! Somehow blogging just got put to the side. If I did any writing it was shorter bursts on an Instagram post, but I have…

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