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    • Dead
      • Body donation
      • Confessions of an Eke Addict
      • Deadlines Are Real
      • Empty Nest Recycling and Buying the Farm
      • Eulogies for living
      • A Funeral, a Birthday, and a Drop-Dead Party
      • Life Lessons from Pets
      • Open Letter to a Lost Friend: Happy Birthday
      • We All Drop Dead
    • Empathy (Community and Politics)
      • A crazy woman
      • Being the Change
      • Covid Memorial Project
      • Diapers and Dandelions: Mindful Balance
      • Don’t Blame Me!
      • Dreadful Dreams: Crimes Against Myself?
      • 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.
      • One Nation, Many Voices: I quietly raise my voice
      • The Parish Fair
      • Skin in the Game and 4 Conflict Conversation Tips
      • Worthy of Kindness?
    • Family and Friends
      • Alzheimer’s and Bumper Cars
      • Being Exes Without Exing Family Bonds
      • Celebrate the Lessons
      • Choked
      • Circles Are Better
      • Connection
      • Figs and Promises
      • House of Memory Shards
      • I didn’t plan to be a mom.
      • I won’t miss you
      • Knee deep in weeds with friends
      • 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 Letter to a Lost Friend
        • Open letter to a lost friend: Adrift
        • Open Letter to a Lost Friend: Cancer Sucks
        • Open Letter to a Lost Friend: Happy Birthday
        • Open letter to a lost friend: Six Dollars and a Deadly Secret
      • Penny Nichols: Why We’re Connected
      • Small Things
      • Time Out
      • Tiny and Big Motherhood: My LTYM Experience
      • Uncertain Journey
    • Gratitude
      • Even the Weeds
      • Gratitude in the Garden of Plenty
      • First Freeze of a New Year
      • Living In Between
      • Thanksgiving Leftovers
    • Secular Sacrament
      • Full Moon Goals
      • Giving Up Happiness
      • The Longest Night
      • A Pepper Apology
      • Personality Type? Green, go with the flow
      • Remembering Rainbows
      • Renewing Ritual
      • Rituals Without Rules
      • Sense of Wonder
      • Thirty Days
      • Why I Look Up
    • Work for the Gravy
      • The Magic of Freelancing from Home Part 1
      • The Magic of Freelancing from Home Part 2
      • The Quiet Work
    • Work for the Soul
      • Daily Blog Challenge: Three Things I Learned
      • Existential Blogger
      • Hobbies and Derelicts
      • I know nothing.
      • It’s time for a word.
      • Makers
      • Nanowrimo: Stop Thinking and Write
      • On finding my público
      • Prep Work
      • Whose story is it anyway?
  • Gardening
    • A Pepper Apology
    • Confessions of an Eke Addict
    • My Garden Control
    • Six Good Habits of a Lazy Gardener
  • Wellness
    • Alzheimer’s
      • Alzheimer’s and Bumper Cars
      • Alzheimer’s Bull
      • Alzheimer’s River
      • Bananas!
      • The Cane
      • Eat the Ice Cream
      • Dear Dad, I see you.
      • Happy Father’s Day
      • Just like that
      • Just Sit With Me
      • Life Lessons: Mom and a Song
      • A long row to hoe
      • She stopped making brownies.
      • Two Grandmothers, One Disease, Three Stories
      • Working with you
    • Cancer? I’m lifting you up.
    • Congratulations! It’s a hernia!
    • DIY Skin Care
      • DIY Skin Care Part 1: Oily Pantry
      • DIY Skin Care Part 2: Oily Starters
      • DIY Skin Care Part 3: Oily Personals
    • from product to DIY skin and hair care
    • Recovery
    • Rest and the To-Do List
    • Strong and Vulnerable
    • The Struggle
    • Thanksgiving Leftovers
  • Something like Recipes
    • Baked Chicken with Snap Beans
    • The Best Smoothie in the World
    • Boneless, Skinless, and Moist! Grilled Chicken Breast
    • Cabbage with Sausage
    • CSA: Using it all up
      • My CSA Adventure: The First Five Weeks
      • Greens: Don’t Toss Them Out!
      • Too many cucumbers? Try keeping a pickle jar
    • Double Choked Shrimp Brie Soup
    • Feta Chicken with Squash and Zucchini
    • Grill to Oven Squash and Zucchini
    • A Pepper Apology
    • 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
    • Zucchini Straws
  • DIY Dabblings
    • DIY Skin Care Part 1: Oily Pantry
    • DIY Skin Care Part 2: Oily Starters
    • DIY Skin Care Part 3: Oily Personals
    • Dry Itchy Skin? Try This First.
    • from product to DIY skin and hair care
  • Looking Glass: Stories, Poems, Essays
    • Don’t give up
    • Lost and Found: This is me
    • Persimmon Lessons
    • The Power of Presence
    • Skin in the Game and 4 Conflict Conversation Tips
    • The sounds of fabric
    • What if in the end
    • Whose story is it anyway?
    • Worthy of Kindness?
  • Garden Glass Words
    • The Art of Allowing
    • Be the Bridge
    • Be the garden
    • Collapse the Box
    • Don’t apologize for your upbeat online persona
    • Don’t blow the gift of 2020: Reflect
    • Easy Open Fantasy
    • A good story
    • Grief
    • The flow: I’m here for it.
    • Life Purpose
    • Lift those Loving Arms
    • The moon does not fight.
    • Running out of breath (not really a poem, but . . .)
    • Spring back
    • Time Out

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A little love, energy, and life, for all of us who continue to spring back and reach for life, even in our brokenness.

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