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Count 'em
Blessings, that is. Count 'em. Every day. It's good to think about the good stuff ( Read more... ) -
Dor le dor
I am a grandmother ( Read more... ) -
Breathe in... breathe out... repeat
A very good friend gave me these instructions during very tough times back in the '90s. At the time, although I followed them, I thought of them as mostly a glib response, something you say when you know someone is having a tough time. "Remember to breathe ( Read more... ) -
Mercury in Retrograde
I am normally a pooh-pooher of astrology and planets controlling things that happen in our lives. And by "normally" I mean, when people are looking ( Read more... ) -
We all have tough days.
Some are tougher than others.
I just want to remember that, when you look at someone you think you know, and you have thoughts about them, you don't really know them. Not at all. Especially when you meet them as adults.
That's all. -
Fourth Monday -- Just so I don't lose this week
It has been a very strange week ( Read more... ) -
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See, this is what happens when you give your kids back the photos that you had hidden in your bottom drawer for all those years ( Read more... ) -
Family Portrait
Cheyenne and her baby and baby-daddy came to work today. Jaeden is all of 4 days old. He's tiny, by my standards; smaller than both of my babies, and not half as cute. But of course not; no baby could be as sweet as my own ( Read more... ) -
Children of Israel pt 2
During the Passover seder I felt very disconnected from the service. Although I tried, I felt no sense of holiday-family-feeling with my husband next to me, and his father next to him. The only sense of that I felt was with the people I see every day for work: residents, co-workers, and the families who I see at Chai Point on a regular basis ( Read more... ) -
Children of Israel
Tonight's seder wasn't one for the books. As far as memories go, it won't be one I will cherish, or look back on fondly. I won't hold it up as an example of the wonderful things we do at Chai Point -- although, considering what we have to work with, I suppose it could have been much worse -- and I won't celebrate it as "how wonderful that we got to ( Read more... )