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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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Larry’s Daughter.
About twenty minutes after leaving the graveyard where we laid my father to rest, I stood in line at the nearby Starbucks. It’s “my” Starbucks, the one I spent hours…
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Lent- Day 31: Let it be to me.
“Paolo de Matteis – The Annunciation” by Paolo de Matteis (Wiki Commons) Today is the Feast of the Annunciation. For those unfamiliar, from Wikipedia: The Feast of…
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Lent- Day 30: For whom the bell tolls.
(Wiki Commons) So I am totally being lazy in the Soren Kierkegaard class I’m taking. Assigned to read Plato’s “Euthyphro”, I haven’t been able to read more than a few…
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Lent- Day 29: Before one of them came to be.
(Source) Momma Kathy is busy, with the help of Monica, arranging Daddy’s funeral. I don’t know how she’s doing it. I haven’t been sleeping well for over…
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Lent- Days 27 & 28: We’ll always love Big Poppa.
My daddy passed away today a few minutes after one P.M. Defying expectations, he survived over two days off the respirator, which makes perfect sense knowing how big his heart…
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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…
