Open Letter to a Lost Friend: Cancer Sucks
Open letter to a lost friend: Adrift
The afternoon was pleasant, yet on that day I understood that our friendship had reached its natural end.
#WEP June Challenge
- Accidental Blogs
- Dead
- Empathy
- A crazy woman
- Being the Change
- Covid Memorial Project
- Diapers and Dandelions: Mindful Balance
- Don’t Blame Me!
- Dreadful Dreams: Crimes Against Myself?
- Eloise
- Giving: Did I Do the Right Thing? A Revisit and a Scrutiny
- I Choose to Change the Story I Tell
- I don’t want your money, but . . .
- I know nothing.
- Lost and Found: This is me
- Mothers, I see you
- One Nation, Many Voices: I quietly raise my voice
- The Parish Fair
- Skin in the Game and 4 Conflict Conversation Tips
- This is not the plan: When a hissy throws a shoulder
- Worthy of Kindness?
- Your Shoes
- Gratitude
- Secular Sacrament
- Work for the Gravy
- Work for the Soul
- Daily Blog Challenge: Three Things I Learned
- Don’t give up
- Existential Blogger
- The flow: I’m here for it.
- A good story
- Hobbies and Derelicts
- I know nothing.
- It’s time for a word.
- Makers
- My number is up: Fourteen
- Nanowrimo: Stop Thinking and Write
- On finding my público
- Persimmon Lessons
- The Power of Presence
- Prep Work
- Whose story is it anyway?
- The Writing River: One Writer’s Journey
- A year in the life of morning pages
- Alzheimer’s Bull
- Alive for the moments
- Alzheimer’s and Bumper Cars
- Alzheimer’s Bull
- Alzheimer’s River
- And then hospice
- Bananas!
- The Cane
- Caregiver’s Note to Self: You’re Enough
- Deep on the Surface
- The Difference
- Eat the Ice Cream
- Dear Dad, I see you.
- Dying at Home, but Visitors Welcome
- The Ebb
- Eulogize the Living
- Game, Set, Match: The Last Walk
- Gems and Shards
- House of Memory Shards
- I don’t care: A caregiver’s love
- If I break, you’ll know: fold vs. wad
- In the Weeds
- Just like that
- Just Sit With Me
- Life Lessons: Mom and a Song
- Living on liminal time
- A long row to hoe
- Losing is hard
- My patio moment
- Phone Calls and Fairs
- The Relief Side of Grief
- Roll up your sleeves
- Running out of breath (not really a poem, but . . .)
- She stopped making brownies.
- They Come at Sundown
- This is my house!
- This is not the plan: When a hissy throws a shoulder
- The tricky question: How’s your mom?
- Two Grandmothers, One Disease, Three Stories
- We’re not okay. But we’ll be fine. We tuck and roll.
- #WEP Challenge: The Great Wave Metaphor
- What are we going to do about this mess?
- Working with you
- Uncertain Journey
- You can’t force a puzzle.
- Connections
- Community
- Family and Friends
- Being Exes Without Exing Family Bonds
- Celebrate the Lessons
- Circles Are Better
- Figs and Promises
- Happy Father’s Day
- I didn’t plan to be a mom.
- I won’t miss you
- Knee deep in weeds with friends
- Lost and Found: This is me
- Love Is a Four-Letter Word
- Love Out of Love
- LTYM Cast Spotlight
- Make Time
- A mother’s heart
- No perfect mom
- Open Email to my Dad: my post-2016 election twitch
- Open Letters
- Penny Nichols: Why We’re Connected
- Small Things
- Tiny and Big Motherhood: My LTYM Experience
- Garden & Recipes
- Gardening
- Something Like Recipes
- Baked Chicken with Snap Beans
- The Best Smoothie in the World
- Boneless, Skinless, and Moist! Grilled Chicken Breast
- Cabbage with Sausage
- My CSA Adventure: The First Five Weeks
- Double Choked Shrimp Brie Soup
- Feta Chicken with Squash and Zucchini
- Greens: Don’t Toss Them Out!
- Grill to Oven Squash and Zucchini
- Roasted Fig Chicken
- Roasted Zucchini and Squash
- Smothered Squash and Zucchini Spaghettis
- Snap Beans and Sausage
- Sour Cream Marinade
- Southern-style Smothered Squash
- String Hash Browns
- Tasty Turnip Fries
- Thanksgiving Leftovers
- Too many cucumbers? Try keeping a pickle jar
- Zucchini Straws
- Health & Beauty
- Stories & Poems
- 50-Word Story Challenge
- Beyond Scylla: Debbie Beaufort
- Beyond Scylla: Isaac
- Beyond Scylla: Kiara
- Beyond Scylla: Light is Magic
- Beyond Scylla: Marlena, you don’t know me.
- Beyond Scylla: Ramena’s Riptide Dream
- Decline: A Short Story
- Love Is All You Need: February 2022 WEP Challenge
- The Madness of the Left-Handed McKennedy Women: A Short Story
- Navigating the Dark
- The sounds of fabric
- Spring back
- Time Out
- What are these days?
- What if in the end
- Your Shoes
- Garden Glass Words
- Betterlands Shop
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