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I encountered a concept today that I can’t get out of my mind — children’s hospice. I know that hospice exists; I’ve seen someone go. I know that children get sick; I wrote a book about it. Yet, in my mind, those two saddest thoughts never met until today, when I ran across a website [...]

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There is a common saying in New England and East Tennessee: If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute. That serves as a good analogy for this week, which started with an old story lying in the graveyard and ended with a new story winning a contest. Offer anyone in New England or East [...]

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I don’t love heights, but I love bridges. To me, the middle of a bridge is the most beautiful spot in the world, literally and figuratively. Because bridges aren’t just for getting from one place to the next; they provide a vantage point to see both where you were and where you are going — [...]

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He grew up on stories of rescued children — of Moses, who, in being rescued became the savior of a civilization, and of Jesus, who was adopted by a father who loved him like his own. “You are meant for great things”, the nuns had said. “Saved children have a special destiny. But for now, [...]

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We all hope that when we’re faced with a moment of truth, we’ll stand up for what’s right and for the people we love. I want to believe I’d run back into a burning building for my niece. So to know the moment is coming and to lack the strength to live up to it…it [...]

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Today is the last day of my first year of blogging! Of course, when I included kittens in the title of the first post, I didn’t foresee that by the end of the year the kittens would actually be writing the posts. The reason Spunk and Teddy have taken over recently is that months ago, [...]

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I have been smelling a litterbox in my apartment all week — but I don’t have a cat. According to a brief search of the Internet, the word for what I’m experiencing is phantosmia, which is exactly what it sounds like – phantom smells, also known as olfactory hallucination. This can be a real chronic [...]

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Strength in Sadness

I’ve spent a lot of time over the past month thinking about the Emily C. Specchio Foundation. Most of the organizations I donate to are born of sadness, but none have touched me in the same way as this one. It seems that Emily Specchio’s life was a seed that her family cultivated in their [...]

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If you saw a course on “aura”, would you assume it was taught by Sheila the Psychic or Beverly the PhD? If someone said there was an “electric” feel in the crowd at an event or that two people had “chemistry”, would you say those characterizations were literary analogy or biologically based? I have always [...]

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  I just read an article “Stop Shoulding on Yourself” by Lisa Martin, in which she asks how many times do you say “should” to yourself in a day? In my case, I can’t even count that high! There is a whole school of psychology on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which is how to become [...]

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