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Easter 2017
Happy Easter! Sunday was very warm, bright and sunny. Our church’s sanctuary was decorated with many lilies and tulips, and the smell of incense wafted through the building. The sun’s rays poured…
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Forever 28. Three years old.
Friday marked the third anniversary of my sister Joscelyne’s death. Around 8AM, I pulled the black and white photo of her, ensconced in a shiny, mirrored frame, off the…
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The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night.
Z and one of the butterflies. Before seven this morning, I sat down on my couch, flipped open my laptop and read. I heard the tiny fluttering wings of…
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Congratulations, Aja & Paul!
Congratulations to my wonderful friends Aja and Paul Thorburn on the birth of baby number three, Isaac, who was born yesterday morning and weighed in at eight pounds, four ounces.…
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Help Momma K Take a Vacay!
From the GoFundMe page: My stepmother, Kathy Parchia Flemming, was by my father’s side as he took his last breath on March 21st. It had been ten months and…
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Lent- Day 26: Waiting.
We sat today, waiting. Waiting for my dad to die. He was moved to hospice this week, and a little after 11 this morning, they shut off the respirator. My…
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Lent- Day 25: Sorry Ms. Jackson.
I was visited again today by Friend 2 from last week. Repeatedly throughout her visit, the conversation veered into some of the more difficult areas of life- illness, breakups and death.…
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Lent- Day 5: My tears have been my food.
“My dad is dying.” Those words flashed through my mind and then hung, like weights, in my thoughts, in my heart, all day today. My brother Joe…
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Lent- Day 5: My tears have been my food.
“My dad is dying.” Those words flashed through my mind and then hung, like weights, in my thoughts, in my heart, all day today. My brother Joe…
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Water, ice and crumbling pearls.
(Screenshot, “Boss”) “I wonder what it’s like to take the shape of the space you’re in?” -Tom Kane, “Boss” That scene, pictured above, from the defunct Starz drama,…
