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Goofy Stuff
I grew up in a goofy family, with silliness, play, fun and frolic being a staple of our South Jersey suburban, two parent, two kid, goldfish, turtles and dog, over the years, sometimes grandmothers,...
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Divine Obstatunity
I saw that phrase for the first time on Sunday and knew it was calling out to be written about. A facebook friend name Liz Teska had used it to describe an experience where she felt her beliefs were...
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Love Is The Answer
In the midst of a very late night conversation with my son, this thought kept running through my mind. It's nothing new and yet, as much as I talk about, teach about, counsel about and write about...
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Available to Love
"Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love...
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Is Suffering Necessary?
I am on the flip side of a week's worth of a messy, painful, not much fun bout with shingles. A week ago, my left eye was prize-fighter swollen, my skin was peeling off my face, I had a chisel to the...
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The Day My Life Changed
It is 7:44 a.m. on December 21, 2013. Fifteen years ago at this moment, I was in the midst of a maelstrom of emotion that threatened to suck me down into its swirling vortex. Sitting in the MRICU...
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Making The Ordinary Come Alive
I became an adoptive parent in 1992, when diminutive blond haired, green eyed Adam became my son. I like to say that my stretch marks are on my heart, not my hips. A high energy kiddo with his own...
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My friend, author, therapist and philosopher Jeff Brown has a bunch of wisdom to offer; born of both pain and pleasure. He spins out word fusions and mental meanderings like only few I have ever...
View ArticleFacing Life: A Ten Week Journey-Week Nine
Just returned from a one week Jamaican journey and Debra/Deva Troy had come back from her own vacation, so there was a two week space in our experience with the modality called Facial Reflex Therapy...
View ArticleEveryone Is On Loan To Us
In the dark days of late Fall into early Winter of 1998, I lived between worlds. Mostly, I walked, slept, eat, drank, cried and prayed in and around the ICU at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in...
View ArticleWanting To Be There
"Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there.'" - Eckhart Tolle This line jumped out at me this morning as I am nursing a headache, listening to music, tip tapping on the keyboard on a...
View ArticleGood News, Bad News….Who Can Say?
There is an ancient story that I have heard and shared many times over the years. I pull it out whenever someone mentions that something that has happened to them or someone they know as 'bad luck' or...
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What Passes for Normal Now
I am listening to my favorite radio station, called WXPN which I began streaming online this morning at 6:30 or so as my favorite show called Sleepy Hollow offered forth the...Read the full post here...
View ArticleAll My Marbles
Funny, the things you remember all these years later. When my mom was on hospice back in 2010, she told me at one point that she still had all her marbles. I knew what she meant since when my dad was...
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Two Decades Later
Twenty years ago this morning, I was waking up in a hospital family waiting room. Like every morning for the previous 5 1/2 weeks, I would rub my bleary eyes, that had likely only been closed for a...
View ArticleDo You Have A Tidy Life?
As I have done for the past 20 years since my husband took his final breath in this incarnation, I use 12/21 as a day of recollection. Not to remain entrenched in the past, but to see how far I have...
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Recovering From Someone Else’s Illness and Death
Today, as I sat on the exam table for my annual physical at my PCP’s office, I was speaking with the Physician Assistant. I have been going to this practice since moving back from Florida in 1993,...
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11:11
I wrote this last year and woke up thinking about the significance of this date for me. It is now 21 years since the events of the day unfolded. “11:11 holds mixed emotions for me. I love the coming...
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21 Years Have Passed Since the Day My Life Changed
Tomorrow 21 years ago (12/21/98) at 11:42 a.m. his heart stopped beating out the rhythm of life when the machines that had sustained him for 5 1/2 weeks was disconnected. The end of a long ordeal...
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Holy Responsible
A little background for those who have not read my blog here is in order. I was raised in Judaism, attended synagogue with my family, went to Hebrew School until I was 16, and became a Bat Mitzvah...
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