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Considering October

Sitting here… celery in the dehydrator… a bunch of stuff to start working up today… I want to try my first go at dehydrating mashed potatoes… wish me luck. October… October is my favorite “season”… ‘color’… of the year. I … Continue reading

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Feeling Lost and Alone

Sitting here… trying hard to focus on work. Trying to stay buried in not thinking. I’ve been working so hard at not thinking… if I don’t think I don’t feel so empty… so alone… but that only carries you so … Continue reading

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Getting my proverbial crap together

It’s been a bad… oh hell… a bad whatever… week/month/year/several-years… Saturday was no exception to the crap that has been going on. I put a load of denim in the washer and set it off on its merry way… it … Continue reading

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I’m Mortified… Books Review

I am mortified that I judged a set of books by their title. I’m a bad bad person. When I was raising my kids, it was way WAY a thing with me that there are no girl toys, there are … Continue reading

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On Getting Kicked When You’re Down

With all of my heart, for about 6 hours, I wished whoever it was that kicked me this time could walk a day in my shoes. JUST ONE F#$%*NG DAY… one. And then I realized that I would not have … Continue reading

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[4.5.2021.1]

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Getting a Tattoo

Getting a tattoo is not something I EVER thought I would do. For starters, Bear was kind of against anyone getting a tattoo (but he was in the navy in the 60s and tattoos were a little… frowned upon?). He … Continue reading

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Grief, Stress, and fighting your way out of darkness

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It’s really hard being in a dark place. It’s hard to think. It’s hard to function. It’s hard to BE. I knew grief was going to be hard. Believe me. I watch people (face to face and virtually) and I … Continue reading

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Sometimes Life is Just Hard

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It’s just hard, sometimes, you know. Just getting through day to day without going completely out of your tree. It’s hard and keeping as busy as humanly possible is really the only way to get through. The last 92 days … Continue reading

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Lost…

I have been SO lost. I’ve been really really lost for the past three and a half weeks… but I’ve been lost longer than that. I’ve been lost since we got the diagnosis that he had IPF and that it … Continue reading